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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.

  1. Peter Baldwin              63       Lintel MMX         20pts   ( 4 wins )
  2. Martin Roberts           22        Slim Chine           23pts  ( 5 wins )
  3. Bill Culshaw                 21        brit pop                  24pts  ( 2 wins )
  4. John Brierley               24        brit pop                 30pts
  5. Graham Birkett          133       widget                   34pts
  6. Dave Burke                    30        brit pop                40pts
  7. Neil Westbrook            03       widget                   42pts
  8. Tre Joinville                   94       lintel                     50pts
  9. 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

  1. David Potter                        946      14pts 5 x 1sts
  2. Richard Robinson                01       14 pts 3 x 1sts
  3. Neil Westbrook                      03      40 pts
  4. Alan Watkinson                   373      50 pts 2 x 2nds
  5. John Carlin                                11      50 pts 1 x 3rd
  6. Mike de St Paer                       35      53 pts
  7. Dave Williams                        233    66 pts
  8. Richard Walker                         39   69 pts
  9. Paul Little                                   45    70 pts
  10. Charles Legg                              21     73 pts
  11. Derek Matthews                       57    75 pts
  12. Sally Collings                          829   79 pts
  13. Barry Baugh                             147    87 pts

Sailing Will Restart Soon

Note 18:10 23/3/21- there is currently a problem with the Booking system which I need to fix and will make events available as soon as possible.  This may well take until 18:00 on 24/3/21 to fix.

 

You should all have seen the recent MYA email and post advising that sailing can once again restart at MYA club’s after 29th March, as part of Organised Outdoor Sport with Governing Body guidance.

We will begin organised events for club members on Wednesday 31st March with DF65 Social Racing at 11am and then Saturday club racing will begin on 3rd April (Easter Saturday) beginning with the IOM fleet.  Racing will be arranged each week from then on, with Saturday racing alternating between the IOM and RG65/DF65 fleets and racing starting at 1pm.

Anyone who wishes to sail at these organised events must book a place using the Event Booking System via the Calendar or the Event listing.  We will restart sailing with a maximum of 13 boats.

A waiting list will be established for entries beyond 13 boats and so if you are booked and cannot sail, please cancel your booking (using the event booking page) so that others can take your place.  If you have any problems, please contact me via the website contacts or my home email address.

Peter Baldwin (Webmaster)

Lockdown Projects & Activities #5

Our final contributor to this series of lockdown projects and activities is from new member Del Ripley.

As one of the newest members I only got to sale at the pool twice before the lockdowns started.

I had at that time a Dragon 95 and a old Joysway pirate’s yacht in black.
At Christmas I was pleased to receive a Dragon 65 ready for when we can once again sail at the club pool.  My time has been spent fitting the Dragon yacht’s out in new green trim that I will be able to see with my poor eyesight.  The Dragon 65 and Joysway pirate’s have both been fitted with House Martin Sails.  Over Christmas break, I also had one very expensive sail on the lower basin below the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum.  I had only been sailing a short while, when my very expensive mobile phone fell out my pocket into 20 feet of murky water!
I look forward to visiting the pool when safe, but for now I send my best wishes to all members.
We look forward to seeing Del on a Wednesday to race with his DF65.
The club awaits further advice from the MYA about re-starting sailing, although hopefully this will be on or shortly after the end of March, depending on how cases fall and what Tier levels are applied when the Government move to the second phase of Step 1, when outdoor sports are allowed.
In the meantime, if anyone has any additional projects they would like to share with the membership, please send me (Peter Baldwin) further details.

Lockdown Projects & Activities #4

This weeks contributor is our Commodore John Brierley.  He has been doing a little boat maintenance and ensuring that all of the screw eyes on his DF65 are sealed to stop any chance of water ingress.  Although not super critical to have a dry boat at BRSPC, it is always important when sailing on salt or brackish water, so well worthwhile doing.  John used West Epoxy and hence the use of masking around the recesses, but superglue in the hole and then replace the screw eye should be fine.  Here are the boats before applying the epoxy (that silver hull looks new!)

Here are the boats post application and tidied up.

Have you been taking the opportunity to do some boat maintenance whilst we have been in lockdown?  One area that may be suffering now are the electrical connections with corrosion setting in if there was any moisture hanging around in the hull.  Other things that you could check out are bearings that might need lubricating and sheets becoming frayed.  Be sure that you are ready to go when we can start sailing again.

It is also worth looking over the top tips of both a general nature and specifically for the IOM, on the BG Sails & Design website here.

I’m running low on projects to tell members about now and so if you have been working on something that you think may be of interest to other members, please send the information to the webmaster (see Contacts page) or reply to my original email request at the end of January.

Lockdown Projects & Activities #3

Mike de St Paer has been busy finishing the renovation of an 1890’s (ish) 20 rater.  According to VMYG, this class pre-dated the 10 tonner Class, replicas of which are still made by Grove Pond Yachts

Before completing this renovation, the boat was sailed at the informal VMYG day organised by Club Captain Andrew Peter and Mike was pleased to see that she didn’t sink.  Even though there aren’t many original boats from this era still surviving, it’s good to know that model yacht racing goes back this far.  Mike provided the following additional information:

The hull, which is the only part I got, is made from a single block of wood – possibly some kind of cedar – but quite lightweight.
The rig, sails and fittings were long gone and the deck was sadly too damaged to recover. The hull had longitudinal cracks, probably from being stored under something heavy but, as it was recovered from a small IOW boatyard, who knows.
All if these boat types, including the later 10 tonners, were notorious for sailing on their beam ends. This also applied to the full size yachts on which they were modelled.
I’ve compromised by building in a casing so that she can be sailed with a fin keel but still look correct for display.  Ballast has been adjusted to maintain the displacement and trim fore and aft.
This also makes it much easier to transport and handle. I don’t think the VMYG hierarchy approve, but the mod is easily reversible and enables the boat to sail well.
Mike is also happy to answer any queries on the boat.