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They say that good luck comes if you wait long enough. Sunday December 9 we held the last event of the year, AC15 Fleet Racing, and it was held at Whitby Lake. Real sunburn conditions, with withering northerly. Only 4 skippers turned up, David was on leave (over seas somewhere) Ed wasn’t going to turn up, but did, then found his radio gear […]
Continue reading »Sunday December 2 was the final day of the IOM Winter Series Fleet Racing. The conditions, to start with, were great for the ‘A’ Rig, nice steady, southerly breeze, with some real black clouds to the north. The start of the first race, saw heavy rain. Some of the ‘not so brave ‘ decided to wait it out and see […]
Continue reading »Sunday November 18 we held the final Day of the Winter Series All Class Handicap at our home venue –Seaview Marina. The conditions were rough, to say the least, generally the northerly was a ‘B’ rig, with almighty gusts coming thru that really warranted something smaller than a ‘C’ rig?? Owing to these conditions we ran only 2 laps of our […]
Continue reading »Sunday November 11 we held the final (Day 4) of the Winter Series AC15 Match Racing at Seaview, and what a great day it was. Sunny with a good, steady southerly, ideal for sailing in general. The marina car park was full, every man and his dog was ‘on the water’. Darrell had a bit of a bad start, with a […]
Continue reading »Sunday November 4 we held Day 4 of the Winter Series IOM Fleet Racing. Nobody in their right mind, would have expected the weather to clear after the conditions on Saturday. But it did, we ended up with clear skies, with a real blustery northerly. There were a few instances when there were white caps on the Whitby Lake! Some of […]
Continue reading »Sunday October 28 we held the IOM Spring Regatta at Seaview with 8 boats attending. The condition was a good northerly with the attending gusts, ‘B’ rig was require. Mike was the only one to achieve a good performance, the rest of us seemed to struggle at times with the gusts. Bruce did not come up to his normal standard […]
Continue reading »The event held Sunday October 13 was Day 4 of the Winter Series All Class Handicap. The conditions were such that it was doubtful whether we would sail. ‘C’ rig was required—it was a real strong southerly. Still the boats held together surprisingly well. 8 skippers turned up but only 5 actually sailed, either because they didn’t possess a ‘C’ […]
Continue reading »Sunday October 7 we held Day 3 of the Winter Series AC15 Match Racing at Lake Whitby. 5 Skippers arrived to be greeted with a withering Northerly, which promised to turn to the south later in the afternoon.Great to see Les on the water again after a long spell out of action. His sailing was smooth, but obviously lacked practice. […]
Continue reading »A bit of disappointment with yesterday sailing, a very low turnout and conditions far from ideal. Ed was very keen to make use of his ‘A’ rig but very rapidly swapped it for a ‘B’ rig, to cope with the blustery northerly. The three skippers showed that they were more than willing to mix it up with each other, despite the […]
Continue reading »‘The event on Sunday September 23 was the re-scheduled Day 2 of the Winter Series IOM Fleet racing and was held at Seaview. The conditions where, fine with a good northerly, which, at times, was on the top of the range for the ‘A’ rig, a few elected to go for the ‘B’ rig. Once again it was great to […]
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