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A sunny day in Evans bay for some Handicap racing. A Rigs on today with tricky wind and wave conditions and interacting with other Yachts from EBYMC as they finished their day on the water. Some very close results , but the clear winner was Brian. Rod
Continue reading »We had 3 x AC15 yachts sailing on Sunday for Match Racing And during the course of the afternoon we also had 4 IOMs Yachts turn up for some training. Some close match racing as seen in the scoring sheet. ED 12 points Dave 11 Points Rod 12 Points Kind Regards Rod.
Continue reading »A good day’s HC sailing. Top of the B-rig today with some sun as well. It was good to see Godfrey pop by to see some sailing. Congratulations to Ed on a very close points series today. Rod
Continue reading »A fresh B-rig Southerly. We are discovering that consistency is key in this style of handicap racing, and Rod was the most consistent today – well done! Brian handled his boat very well – with only his A-rig available. Conditions eventually got too much for that rig, and he had to stop sailing to protect his boat. Overall […]
Continue reading »We had a great AC15 sailing day on Sunday, with six yachts sailing. Ed did very well, winning the day as follows: Ed: 15 points Rod: 7 points DavidH: 4 points Congratulations Ed, well done! We don’t have complete scores for Mark, Brett and Kyle as we had some breakage and radio gear issues. However, we had 6 […]
Continue reading »A good day’s sailing. Top of the A-rig. It was good to see Mark, Godfrey and Pete sailing with us. Congratulations to Dave. John McPherson
Continue reading »The Murray Rountree Regatta is being held at held at Winstone lake in Otaki. (Thanks to KRYC for co hosting this regatta) Sat 16th Nov – day 1. A strong Southerly Breeze had the fleet on B rigs today. Link to Reggat Day 1 Photos, thanks to Glenn Syman of KRYC: Day 1 results posted below. Sun […]
Continue reading »A beautiful day’s sailing at Whitby. A light Northerly that rewarded sailing with eyes out of the boat. It was great welcoming back a returning sailor – Pete Fisher. Welcome back Pete. Pete sailed well and became more difficult to catch as the day went on. The handicapping seemed to work well. It took a while to settle […]
Continue reading »Yesterday we ran Day 3 of the Spring Series AC 15 Match Racing the venue was Whitby. Only 3 skippers turned up to, not surprising considering the windy conditions The rig for the day was the ‘B’ rigwhich hasn’t been used for (I would say) a couple of years. The wind was quite strong with very heavy gusts. But surprising […]
Continue reading »The event held was Day 2 of the Spring Series AC15 Match Racing , the venue being Whitby.4 skippers arrived to a lovely spring day which was sunny with a reasonably steady northerly breeze, which was the best breeze we have seen at Whitby for some time. A warm welcome into the AC15 group to Mark, who is an ‘old […]
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