A good turnout of 14 boats with quite a few away

When done Olly, John and Mike Drew making up the podium

Vane 36R Leech Trophy 6th April 2025

A very pleasant day’s sailing with a light to moderate south easterly breeze and most yachts in 2nd suits. There was sunshine all day. Some skippers used spinnakers on the runs. A full round was sailed. Several skippers  had mates and those without were helped by Eric Austwick plus the bye boat people. A full round was sailed.

Results

1st      Martin Dovey                             19 points

2nd=  Oliver Murray                             18

2nd=  Peter Whiteside & Terry Reed    18

4th     Bob Jolly & Damian Ackroyd      15.5

5th     Peter Iles                                      14.5

6th    John Sharman & Ruby                  13

7th    Peter Guest                                     7

The series results are concluded for the DF95 Winturn Series and Jim Rosebowl

Well done to Mark and Derek who shared first and second in both series.

Despite several of our regular Vane 36R skippers racing IOMs at Scarborough, we had a record entry of 8 yachts for this our first Vane Sailing event of the year. At start time the wind was light and coming from the NE, so it was a run out from the Clubhouse and a close hauled return was expected. However on attempting the return board there wasn’t a ripple on the lake but the fleet carried on regardless, with great difficulty!

By the time we were back at the Clubhouse end of the lake a slight breeze was blowing from the NW, so the scoring was changed to 3 out and 2 back. Three heats were completed by lunchtime. After  lunch the wind had strengthened, still from the NW, giving a normal beat out. A couple of yachts changed down to 2nd suits  and one withdrew from the competition.

The remaining heats were completed with the 7 remaining yachts.

Results

1st   Peter & Stuart Whiteside               24 points

2nd  Keith Wiseman & Bob Jolly           22

3rd   Olly Murray & Scarlet                   18 

4th   John Sharman & Ruby                  15

5th   Peter Iles                                        11

6th   Walter Audley                                  9

7th   Tony Wilson                                     6

8th   Alan Crawforth (Withdrawn)            3

A cracking turnout of boats including the reappearance of a few visitors the Bennett’s and George Barclay

18 boats made the start line. The morning session was a stiff A breeze and times edging the very top of the rig.

The wind fired through the racing and became light a holey in the last few races.

Racing between the front 4 was tight in the afternoon session with often 5 lboat lengths between first and fourth.

Alan Bennett had the best of the morning session with his Britpop and Derek in the afternoon winning the last 4 in the lighter stuff.

Neil D mixing it with the front two with his Britpop along with Mark giving his alioth some time in the water to see what it could do.

Well sailed Alan taking the win, congrats to George for winning a race after getting an unbelievable start where nobody could catch him!!

Two and a half laps of the lake was sailed making for a lively, warm, sunny day out.

Overall, congratulations to Derek on winning the Jim Rosebowl ahead of Mark in second place.