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Sunday’s event was Day 4 of the Summer Series IOM Fleet Racing and was held at Whitby Lake. The conditions were NOT to everyone’s liking—sunny, warm with a very, very light southerly to start with, which changed early in the racing to the north, which, once again was very light. The lack of wind had most of the skippers guessing, […]
Continue reading »All Class Summer Series Handicap Results after Day 3 racing. ALL CLASS H/CAP SERIES RESULTS SUMMER SKIPPER SAIL No D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D/CARD POINTS PLACING R Tullock 69 32 E Schmidt 79 19 6 C Harmer 20 19 B Kerr 38 17 11 R McDermott 2 28 14 P Fisher 23 14 NOTES 1/ Score for NOT competing […]
Continue reading »Sunday April 8 we staged Day 3 of the Summer Series All Class Handicap, and it was a real disappointment. It started out with 5 skippers, but very rapidly decreased to 3–Russell has got his replacement winch—and apparently it was working OK at home but decided to quit during rigging up. Darrell did the unthinkable, got to the stage of […]
Continue reading »Sunday April 1 we staged Day 3 of the Summer Series AC15 Match Racing. The conditions that greeted the skippers was, sunny, with a good northerly breeze with variable pressure. David van der Plas passed on his apologies for his absence, and Ed. arrived with the intention of sailing, but his boat is still plagued with electrical problems, so he […]
Continue reading »2018 IOM FLEET RACING SERIES RESULTS– SUMMER SKIPPER SAIL No D 1 D 2 D 3 D 4 D 5 D/CARD POINTS PLACING D Blewett 74 22 15 19 M Garden 159 8 48 12 E Schmidt 79 18 48 24 R McDermott 2 26 P Fisher 23 34 23 48 B Kerr 38 32 14 27 L McGhie 94 […]
Continue reading »Sunday’s event was Day 3 of the Summer Series IOM Fleet Racing and was held at the Seaview Marina. 6 skippers arrived, to be greeted by a warm northerly gusting from about 9 kts upwards. The lulls where quite long and great for the A rig but some of the gusts tended to be a bit much sometimes, but […]
Continue reading »Sunday March 18 we staged the re-scheduled Day 2 of the Summer Series IOM Fleet Racing. The event was held at the Seaview Marina with a very summery day in attendance. On arrival the breeze was a light southerly and rather ‘fresh,’ by race start time it had increased in intensity, to the degree that a few of the skippers […]
Continue reading »Sunday March 4 was Day 2 of the AC15 Summer Series Match Racing. It is many years since the AC15’s have sailed at Whitby Lake as a fleet, and it was spectacular to watch. The weather was great -a light northerly probably at about 20 km/h or less which tended to be a quite un-forgiving at times, and it became […]
Continue reading »A good day’s sailing at Whitby with very challenging conditions. Very light southerly, swinging to the East, and finally settling into a Northerly with reasonable pressure. All 5 boats showed good speed at times with several races being decided on the last leg. Rod was a bit handicapped with a winch that was not controlling properly, which cost him dearly […]
Continue reading »The event Sunday 4 February was Day 1 of the Summer series All Class Handicap, and was held at Aotea Lagoon. The weather that greeted the skippers was ‘not the best’–a blustery ‘northerly’ but sunny. The Lagoon is not known for good conditions at the best of times, and it certainly lived up to its reputation this time around. The gusty […]
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