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Another Sunny winters Day at Whitby. The wind was a bit on the lite side so some races were a little flukey.Only 5 races had in the end with the wind dying out in the last race about 4pm. A great day had by all with the Handicap working well. Congrates to Ed. […]
Continue reading »‘Today we ran the the AC15 Match Racing Day 1 of the Spring Series at Whitby. Only 3 boats turned up today, David v d P had family matters to attend to and Mark (new member) had that ‘dreaded lurgy’ COVID. Ron is unwell and we may not be seeing ‘on the water’ any time soon. Still the 3 that […]
Continue reading »Hi, Good wind, Dave with his AC15, Mark on the water, and a lot of fun. We trialled a new handicap system, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. I noticed one race where 3 boats were overlapped at the final bottom mark – the AC15 and 2 IOMs. Another race where 3 boats were fighting it out for […]
Continue reading »Today we held Day 5 of the Autumn Series AC15 Match Racing at Whitby. The conditions that greeted us on arrival where not ideal by any means sunny –yes, wind—-not very good . No wind for most of the afternoon but it did increase in velocity for 1 maybe 2 flights, then it dropped out all together. Eventually after 4 […]
Continue reading »Day 3 of the Autumn Series AC15 Match Racing at Whitby. And what a great day it was, plenty of sun and an agreeable wind from a northerly direction. 5 skippers turned up which was the biggest fleet we have had for some time. All the racing was exceptional the finisheswhere unbelievably close- it was a matter of being in […]
Continue reading »“A beautiful bottom to middle of A-rig breeze. Steady conditions and good for checking boat speed. We did a modified handicap system where – the winning boat from this race had to do a penalty on the first leg of the next race – and the last placed boat started 10 seconds ahead in the next race Unfortunately, we […]
Continue reading »The wind was from the North and at the top end of A Rig today. Good to see 6 boats competing this afternoon.
Continue reading »Day 2 of the Autumn Series AC15 Match Racing at Whitby. Yesterday we held Day 2 of the Autumn Series AC15 Match Racing, the venue was Whitby.A warm welcome to Dave Humphreys to our group, I hope you will enjoy sailing with our group and the included companionship.The wind was quite doubtful when we arrived at the venue but it […]
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 18th Nov – day 1. A lovely Sunny day at Winstones Lake. Only 14 Sailors were in attendanace today with a few late withdrawls.(Wayne only managed to sial a couple of races as being on the […]
Continue reading »“A good afternoon’s sailing, in a tricky B-rig Northerly. It was good to see all boats showing good speed at different times, with several boats getting race wins.” Regards John McPherson
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