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IOM Summer 2022 #4 (18/6/22)

With a 10 degree swing in temperature from Friday it was time to put a second layer of clothing on for the 6 competitors today. The wind was from the top end of the lake straight down the middle and middle of top suit.
Unfortunately John Brierley had been partying with his family the night before to celebrate his Birthday and when he turned up and plugged in the winch did not respond so he stayed and helped out instead of sailing.
Peter Baldwin, sailing his new BritPOP! for the first time was quick out of the blocks and scored a Turkey of wins, strangely enough he also did this in races 8-10 to take his total to 6 wins on the day. Placings swapped about quickly on the water due to some nice shifts and the whole fleet was very compact in nearly all 12 races. Other race winners were Martin Roberts with 3 wins sailing his newly developed Vanilla design and Graham Elliott sailing a chartered Vickers V9 with 3 wins.
The results reflect how close the racing was today with only 9 points separating the top 4 boats.
  1. Peter Baldwin               63    Britpop !  18 pts 6 wins
  2. Martin Roberts             22    Vanilla     23 pts 3 wins
  3. Graham Elliott              66    V9             25 pts 3 wins
  4. Bill Culshaw                  121    Britpop!  27 pts
  5. Neil Westbrook             03    Widget     48 pts

Many thanks to Dave Williams for starting, finishing and scoring and Jack for making the tea.

 

DF65 Social Racing 2022 #24 (15/6/22)

Nine Sailors arrived to sunshine and a light airs. John Carlin did the honours again as OD, and Neil Westbrook got the waders on to recover and set marks, for a full lake course, with a variable but mostly westerly breeze, which settled and filled as the morning progressed. Ten races with a two lap finish. Welcome to new member Martin Whittingham Jones.

  1. Neil Westbrook                          03 13 pts
  2. Alan Watkinson                       373 16 pts
  3. James Douglas                            73 18 pts
  4. Andrew Peter                            919 28 pts
  5. Dave Williams                             33 34 pts
  6. Derek Matthews                         57 39 pts
  7. John Beech                                    80 56 pts
  8. Martin Whittingham Jones    54 62 pts ( 2 x 6 th )
  9. Malcolm Harvey                     1019 62 pts ( 1 x 6 th )

DF65 Social Racing 2022 #22 (1/6/22)

Only 6 sailors but with the A+ wind at times straight down the lake 10 races were held. With the few boats it was decided to do without a RO with the first over the finish line doing the marking. During the racing several boats were swapped to see if there were any glaring tuning errors.

  1. Neil Westbrook      9 pts 7 wins
  2. Dave Williams       19 pts 3 wins
  3. Richard Walker     27 pts
  4. Charles Legg          30 pts
  5. Graham Reeves     33 pts
  6. Malcolm Harvey   40 pts

DF65 Social Racing 2022 #21 (25/5/22)

Results only for this event

  1. John Brierley        9 pts 5 wins
  2. Dave Williams     16 pts 1win
  3. Mike De St Paer  18 pts 1 win
  4. Alan Watkinson  26 pts 1win
  5. Charles Legg        28 pts
  6. Richard Walker   33 pts 1 win
  7. Graham Reeves   48 pts
  8. Malcolm Harvey  49 pts
  9. John Beech             54 pts
  10. Paul Whalley Unfortunately was only able to complete 2 races.

9 races held.

Change of event for RG65 Popup Open meetin

The next DF/RG65 Summer Series event originally planned for the 11th June will now be held on the 4th June and will also be an Open event.  This is primarily to allow more practice and boat setup for anyone planning to attend the RG65 Open at Bornville on the 11th June.  Full detail and entry via the links in “Upcoming events” or by following the link here.

Racing will start at 11:00, with no start after 16:00 and around 30 minutes break for lunch.  Entry for the day will be £3 with free tea/coffee or bottled water.  A few spare boats are available to loan for the day if you would like to try out this fantastic small racing machine (further details on the event page).

The Social Sailing Day originally planned for the 4th has now been moved to the 11th June.

IOM Summer Series 2022 #3 (21/5/22)

Due to a series of unfortunate events  3 off the original 6 made it to the start line.  A rig down the middle, with a funny turn around tea break.
All had their moment in the sun.
Thanks to Bernie, Dave and a mug of tea from Jack
  1. Martin Roberts         22    vanilla      10 pts     6  wins
  2. Bill Culshaw               21    britpop     15 pts     2 wins
  3. Alan Watkinson        23    britpop     19 pts     2 wins

The series figures have now been updated here which show Martin currently with a commanding lead.