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15 Dec 2019 – Today we staged the Annual AC15 Fleet Racing event. The event was to be last weekend but the weather was against us, so today was the day The venue chosen for the event was the Whitby Lake. So we made an early start (10.30 AM) so as to not disturb the IOM skippers,who started at their […]
Continue reading »Today we held Day 5 of the Summer Series AC15 Match Racing, and it was held at Seaview Marina. The conditions that greeted the skippers was sunny with a northerly wind suitable for the ‘A’ rigs. It is not very often that the lead position can change so many times in one heat, the racing was so close, the […]
Continue reading »The following are the results for the All Class Handicap Summer Series after 5 days of racing. SERIES RESULTS. Rank Skipper Sail Design Score D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 J McPerson 42 V8 8 8 M Garden 159 V8 17 E Schmidt 79 V8 […]
Continue reading »The event staged Sunday May 12 was, Day 5 of the Summer Series All Class Handicap, and the venue was Whitby Lake. The promised conditions where ‘cloudy with a promise of heavy rain and strong wind. The ‘A’ rig conditions gradually decreased as the afternoon moved on. 2 skippers elected for the ‘A” rig but the rest went with the ‘B’ […]
Continue reading »The following are the results of the Summer Series AC15 Match Racing after 4 days of racing. Rank Score Skipper D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D van der Plas 14 14 10 12 R Perry 10 8 12 D Blewett 12 12 6 12 E Schmidt 10 10 12 G Buchan 6 1/ Scores shown are ‘as raced’. 2/ […]
Continue reading »Today we held day 4 of the Summer series AC15 Match Racing, and the venue was Lake Whitby. The conditions were a bit of a mixed bag, sunny with a gusty northerly. ‘B’ rig was the determined suit for the event. 4 skippers attended, but only 3 boats, so the ‘odd man out’ was permitted to sail the boat of his choice. The points […]
Continue reading »The following are the IOM Fleet Racing Summer Series results after 3 days of racing, Rank Skipper Sail Design Score D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 J McPherson 142 V8 10 E Schmidt 79 V8 8 20 3 M Garden 159 V8 32 8 R McDermott 2 MX14 34 27 7 D Blake 93 V5 26 13 14 D Blewett 74 […]
Continue reading »The following are the results of Day 3 of the IOM Fleet Racing Summer Series held on Sunday 21st of April. Rank Skipper Sail Design Score R1 R2 R3 R4 3 Rod McDermott 2 MX14 7 3 2 4 2 1 Ed Schmidt 79 V8 3 1 1 2 1 5 D Blake 93 V5 14 2 6 6 6 […]
Continue reading »Below are the results of the All Class Handicap Summer Series after 4 days of racing. Rank Skipper Sail Design Score D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 J McPerson 42 V8 8 8 M Garden 159 V8 17 E Schmidt 79 V8 6 25 53 R McDermott 2 MX14 25 23 G Buchan 65 V8 26 B Kerr 38 V5 30 […]
Continue reading »Sunday April 14, despite the forecast conditions, we ran Day 4 of the Summer Series Handicap. The predicted conditions were for ‘increased southerlies winds but fine?’ In fact there were relatively calm spells (almost ‘A’ rig) with gusts that, in my mind were definitely ‘C’ rig. As expected, there were a few casualties through breakages of some sort. There was only 1 skipper that […]
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