DF65’s
The forecast strong SW breeze didn’t really reach Gautby Rd lake and, as it was blowing right over the houses, gave very fluky conditions even by the standards of the venue.
Another excellent turnout of 17 skippers arrived although, as reported below, this reduced for various reasons during the morning’s racing.
Dave Williams very kindly offered to RO the racing, and then as the first race ended John Brierley had to leave followed closely by Simon who had come with only an A rig having been led astray by the forecast. Charles and Sally also departed a bit later leaving the remaining helms to enjoy the conditions which varied from real knockdown gusts to complete flat spots,
There was initially a bit of debate about which end to start, but the decision to start at the far end of the lake turned out to be the right one. The usual course was used with a line which looked very starboard end biased, but once again enabled good starts to be made pretty much anywhere.
Despite the tricky conditions there was good racing, although after 8 races (and a couple of rain showers) all agreed that this was enough for the morning.
Thanks to Dave for running the racing and for untangling the results which ended as follows;
- Mike de St Paer 8pts 4 wins
- James Douglas 12 pts 2 wins
- Alan Watkinson 13 pts 2 wins
- Clive Warren 24 pts
- John Carlin 27 pts
- Dave Howard 40 pts
- Richard Walker 41 pts
- Neil Westbrook 44 pts
- Paul Little 45 pts
- Sally Collings 49 pts (sailed 5 races)
- Don Mackinnon 53 pts (sailing an A rig)
- John Beech 58 pts
- Malcolm Harvey 67 pts
- Charles Legg 74 pts (sailed 4 races)
- Simon Bates 90 pts (A rig & ret’d during race 1)