- Clive Warren 8pts 4 wins
- Alan Watkinson 9pts 3 wins
- Frans King 18pts
- John Beech 22pts
- Dave Howard 23pts
DF65 Social Racing 2024 – 7/2/24
Another great DF65 turnout today with 14 skippers ready to sail, including new member Paul Plested who has acquired Martin Whittingham-Jones boat. Welcome Paul!
Conditions were, as usual, very shifty with wind blowing from the houses and not much breeze near the clubhouse top corner – and not really much anywhere else either for that matter. It did look as if it might fill in from time to time but this never really happened.
Racing was very keen right from the start on the usual course format, with Paul Little dong an immediate horizon job.
The next three races had three more different winners, until in race five Neil won his second race on the way to winning the day with three wins and nine points winning on countback from Mike dsp with only two wins. Close racing.
Elsewhere on the results sheet the points didn’t tell the whole story, with much very close racing, and many skippers going from being completely down the pan to good results and vice-versa.
Thanks again to Dave Williams for sorting out the average points and doing the results which finished as below;
- Neil Westbrook 9 pts 3 wins
- Mike de St Paer 9 pts 2 wins
- Clive Warren 19 pts 1 win
- Andrew Potter 21 pts
- Alan Watkinson 22 pts 1 win
- Dave Williams 28 pts
- Paul Plested 34 pts
- Paul LIttle 35 pts 1 win
- Frans King 44 pts 1 3rd
- Malcolm Harvey 44pts
- Simon Bates 45 pts 1 x 4th
- Charles Legg 45 pts
- John Beech 56 pts
- Dave Howard 65 pts
DF95 Winter Series 2023 #3 – 3/2/24
There was an excellent turnout of 12 boats for todays DF95 racing with the sailors served up an excellent mid to top end of A suit breeze straight down the lake from the far end. After Peter had tweaked the marks for a good windward leeward course, racing got underway promptly at 12:00 as with 12 racing and no designated RO, we needed to get 12 races completed to allow everyone to undertake an RO duty and avoid averaging results.
The most common sail number at the front of the fleet seemed to end in 84, with both 84 (sailed by John Brierley) and 184 being loaned by John to Martin Roberts for the day. Between them, Martin and John took ten of the wins, with Martin bagging six (one whilst sailing 429) and John Brierley four. Peter Baldwin picked up the remaining two wins. We also had a couple of guest sailors who used Martin’s boat to very good effect with them both finishing their races in the top 5.
There were some notable results elsewhere across the fleet with top 3 finishes in a number of races by Neil Westbrook, Alan Watkinson and Tony Sedgwick. Dave Williams, Dave Howard and Frans King also had some good results after starting well and being well placed at the first windward mark.
Some close finishes across the fleet in many races, we unfortunately lost one boat at half time due to illness and then by the end another couple through unfortunate gear failure.
A great days racing, with a well deserved winner in Martin Roberts, John Brierley second, followed closely by Peter Baldwin just one point behind.
Next week is IOM Winter #4, with 6 entries so far and more promised. It’s looking to be a strong field.
DF95 Social Racing 2024 – 31/1/24
DF65 Social Racing 2024 – 31/1/24
A little bit of a surprise with the results today, such that the author and scorer had to treble check!
Today was a day when you think “I should have stayed in bed”, but thirteen keen sailors arrived, including a visitor (Olly) from Fleetwood sampling our tricky conditions. The wind was coming over the houses but not consistently, at times A+ was not enough then a long strong gust would appear and flatten the boats.
The usual course was sailed, starting at the Club house up to a port rounding of the windward mark, port around the spreader down through the gate to the finish halfway up the lake. Planning a good start was difficult with many boats caught out due to the sudden light wind patches. Those that planned it right were more or less able to make the windward mark on one tack due to some very good lifts. The final leg from the gate to the finish was the most difficult part of the course with many good finishing positions suddenly disappearing.
Twelve races were held with each skipper managing a RO. The racing was very close throughout the fleet no more than on the finish line with boats within centimetres of each other.
- Dave Williams 13pts 4wins
- Neil Westbrook 16pts 3wins
- John Carlin 19pts 1win
- Clive Warren 21pts 2wins
- Alan Watkinson 25pts
- Olly Murray 36pts
- Don MacKinnon 46pts
- Simon Bates 48pts
- Sally Collings 61pts
- Paul Little 64pts
- John Beech 72pts
- Frans King 73pts
- Paul Plested 92pts
Summer 2024 Calendar Released
The Calendar for Summer 2024 has been completed and associated Events created through to the end of October, although only 12 events show at any one time in the Upcoming Events area. The Calendar Tab on the website provides the full list of proposed racing days with dates and also indicates significant events in the MYA Calendar.