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IOM Club Racing 2021 #2 17/04/2021
A sunny day greeted the 8 IOM sailors for the 2nd Club Racing afternoon series race. Just in time for racing, the wind settled in from the NW but judging the shifts ensured all sailors were kept on their toes all afternoon.
Twelve races were held, with the boats coming of the water for a break at 14:45 so that the assembled members could observe the National one minute silence for the funeral of HRH Prince Philip at 15:00. With silence around the lake, only the gentle flapping of sails in the background, was to be our tribute to HRH, Patron of the MYA.
Racing was extremely close with all sailors showing towards the front of the fleet at some point. Martin, sailing a new Slimtel was to win 6 races, but the consistency of John gave him a narrow 1 point win. Third and only 1 point behind Martin was Bill. The scores do not do justice to how close the racing and in particular the finishes were.
Bernie and Jack, kept us all well organised and thanks, as usual, go to them enabling us all to have another great day on the water at Birkenhead.
- John Brierley Britpop 20 points (2 wins)
- Martin Roberts Slimtel 21 points. (6 wins)
- Bill Culshaw Britpop 22 points (2 wins)
- Graham Birkett Widget 41 points (2 wins)
- Tre Joinville Lintel 52 points (1x2nd)
- Alan Watkinson Britpop 52 points
- Andrew Peter V9 55 points
- Neil Westbrook Widget 56 points
12 races sailed. Photos courtesy of Dave Williams.
Death of MYA Patron
Following the sad news on Friday, 9th April of the death of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Birkenhead Radio Sailing & Power Club wish to send our deepest sympathies to Her Majesty and family at this sad time.
RG/DF65 Club Racing 2021 #1
A sunny, top suit day with the wind blowing straight down the lake, met the 7 RG65 and 5 DF 65 sailors for the 1st Saturday sailing for these classes since lockdown was lifted.
The assembled sailors observed a minutes silence in memory of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, before racing commenced.
The DF65 fleet had a few retirements due to gear failure, which left Richard Robinson a clear winner from John Carlin and Mike De St Paer.
In the RG65 class, Peter Baldwin was fast out of the blocks winning the first two races, with “newcomer” to the fleet Martin Roberts showing a fine turn of speed and best consistency to win overall. Many of the fleet managed to show at the front of the fleet during the 11 races, to provide a very close day’s sailing. Thanks once again to Bernie for running the afternoon.
RG65
1st Martin Roberts 184 19 points Pocket Rocket 3 wins
2nd John Brierley 84 22 points Uno 3 wins 4x2nd
3rd Graham Elliott 55 22 points Argon 3 wins 3x2nd
4th Peter Baldwin 63 26 points Pocket Rocket 2 wins
5th Neil Westbrook 03 32 points Pocket Rocket
6th Dave Williams 33 41 points Pocket Rocket
7th Alan Watkinson 23 54 points Scurry
DF65
1st Richard Robinson 01 11 points 7 wins
2nd. John Carlin 11 20 points 2 wins
3rd. Mike de St Par 35 22 points 1 win
4th. Sally Collings 829 44 points
5th. Andrew Peter 919 49 points 1 win
11 races sailed. Photos from John Brierley
IOM Club Racing 2021 #1
This, the first IOM racing after lockdown 3 proved to be a great re-introduction after more than 3 months of no sailing. The racing started out with a light NE breeze for a couple of races with plenty of shifts and gusts to test the 9 helms. The wind then started to tempt us with a NW breeze starting to fill in then return to NE and we ended up with 2 races that either had three beats plus one run and one with then 2 runs followed by two beats.
There was a short delay whilst the marks were moved around and the course reset for a WNW breeze pretty well straight down the lake, (to most peoples surprise) and plenty of sunshine to go with it. It also picked up a notch and started to be towards a top end No 1 in the gusts.
Racing was tight through the whole afternoon with at times, the whole fleet finishing in quick succession and testing both the calling skills of Jack and Bernie’s scribing to record the results. Overall a great afternoon’s racing of 11 races in good friendly fashion with plenty of learning points gained.
- Peter Baldwin 63 Lintel MMX 20pts ( 4 wins )
- Martin Roberts 22 Slim Chine 23pts ( 5 wins )
- Bill Culshaw 21 brit pop 24pts ( 2 wins )
- John Brierley 24 brit pop 30pts
- Graham Birkett 133 widget 34pts
- Dave Burke 30 brit pop 40pts
- Neil Westbrook 03 widget 42pts
- Tre Joinville 94 lintel 50pts
- Charles Legg 6 Triple Crown 75pts
Results after 11 races.
Thanks once again go to Jack and Bernie for running the racing.
Photos thanks to Andrew Peter.
DF65 Social Racing 2021 #1
The day was dedicated to the memory of Christopher Weston.
Our first post lockdown race saw 13 sailors arrive to very light winds. The first race was run over a one lap short course, but as the wind filled in, we ran 3 medium length two lap races, eventually extending the course to the full length of the lake for the last 4 races. Thanks go to Andrew Peter who stepped in to run this weeks racing.
Results after 8 races
- David Potter 946 14pts 5 x 1sts
- Richard Robinson 01 14 pts 3 x 1sts
- Neil Westbrook 03 40 pts
- Alan Watkinson 373 50 pts 2 x 2nds
- John Carlin 11 50 pts 1 x 3rd
- Mike de St Paer 35 53 pts
- Dave Williams 233 66 pts
- Richard Walker 39 69 pts
- Paul Little 45 70 pts
- Charles Legg 21 73 pts
- Derek Matthews 57 75 pts
- Sally Collings 829 79 pts
- Barry Baugh 147 87 pts
