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Sunday April 16 we staged Day 4 of the Summer Series AC15 Match Racing. What a mixed day it was. We had rain (just a bit), a strong enough southerly that we seriously considered using the ‘C’ rig, brilliant sunshine, a periodic change to a light northerly, little or no wind and back to a southerly–a real mixture. We eventually […]
Continue reading »Sunday 19 March was Day 3 of the Summer Series AC15 Match Racing and was held at the Seaview Marina. The weather was ‘a true summers day’. Hot and sunny with a gentle south westerly breeze, which later changed to north westerly breeze. Ed Schmidt officiated as the Race Officer. The racing was very tight as the points show. Ron seems […]
Continue reading »‘The event for Sunday’s sailing was Day 3 of the Summer Series IOM Fleet Racing and was held at the Seaview Marina, amongst some very blustery northerly winds. All of the skippers, started off with the ‘A’ rig, but after 2 races realized the the ‘B’ rig would be better suited to the conditions, in fact, the some of the gusts […]
Continue reading »Skipper Sail No. Day 2 Ed Schmidt 38 20 Darrell Blewett 74 17.2 Laurie Greene 495 0 John McPherson 42 8 Len Wilmer 142 0 Brian Sullivan 589 31 Mike Garden 59 17 Ron Perry 5 39
Continue reading »The AC15 Summer Day 2 held at Seaview Marina on February 12 provided a challenging sailing day. The results were as follows: Skipper Points Placing David van der Plas 16 1 Ed Schmidt 12 2 Ron Perry 8 3
Continue reading »Sunday 5 February we held Day 2 of the IOM Fleet Racing Summer Series. 4 Skippers arrived to a hot sunny day with light to gusty northerly, which was quite tiring for us oldies!!!! Darrell Blewett was back on the water again after sorting out the electronic problems he had last week end, as was Mary Wilmer. Darrell and Ed had […]
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