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Today’s event was day 3 of the Winter Series IOM Fleet Racing, and it was held at Seaview Marina. Seven skippers arrived to be greeted with a fairly steady southerly wind. ‘A’ rigs where the first choice, but that changed after the first race, ‘B’ rigs where a better choice. Although Bruce decided to stick to the ‘A’. I was […]
Continue reading »The scheduled event for today was, Day 4 of the Winter Series All Class Handicap, and despite the conditions was held at Whitby Lake. The conditions where far for ideal for sailing but 4 brave skippers did arrive to be greeted to a real blustery northerly. ‘A’ rigs where tried, but the ‘B’ rig was decided on. Great to see […]
Continue reading »The event Yesterday was Day 3 of the Winter Series AC15 Match Racing, the venue was Seaview Marina. The conditions initially where sunny with a nice steady Northerly, so we elected the ‘A’ rig, by the time the first flight was completed the wind pressure had increased to a point that a change down to ‘B’ was considered. We elected […]
Continue reading »Today we held Day of the Winter Series IOM Fleet Racing at Whitby Lake. Eight skippers arrived to be greeted by a very light southerly, which was extremely unpredictable. Some of the skippers made very hard work of the sailing. Dave with his trusty V5 won the honors for the day followed very closely by Ed. Well done both of […]
Continue reading »The event today was Day 3 of the Winter Series Handicap. Seaview was the scheduled venue. Five skippers arrived to what was a real blustery northerly. A rigs were initially tried but by the time we were ready for the first race it was decided by all that B rig would be more suitable. Ed and his V8 did not […]
Continue reading »The conditions where not to every skippers satisfaction, northerly, very variable, with the odd shower, and to top it off we even had the strike of thunder and lightning. Six skippers arrived, including the 2 Gault brothers, both proved to be more than capable of managing the trying conditions, welcome to you both. The event was won by Dave, followed closely […]
Continue reading »From Sunday 14th July at Whitby – Skippers were greeted with a mixture of no wind at all to rain squalls with good B rig winds. Many skippers called in with “weather not for me” decisions but the weather terned out dry with mostly good B rig winds resulting in good racing with 3 different race winners.
Continue reading »From Sunday 7th July The conditions where totally un-expected – a complete reversal of the weather we suffered during the past week. Only 5 skippers attended, with Rod having to drop out during the first lap with winch drum problems. Great to see Hans making progress with his V5. Ed and Darrell had some great tussles with Darrell eventually taking a […]
Continue reading »Sunday 16th June – Today we held the Autumn IOM Regatta at Whitby Lake with conditions that were ‘straight out of the box’–a light northerly with the odd gust. The gusts weren’t quite ‘B’ rig so the majority of skippers went for the ‘A’ rig. Dave was up to his normal standard, by winning all bar 1 race followed by […]
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