Six different race winners showing the depth of the fleet.

A few names were away, but a dozen boats still made the start line showing the ever growing fleet.

Overall it was Derek taking the honours from the much improving duo of Eric (Sedici – flying 15) and Peter Iles (Britpop).

After a few glorious days…. It was windy and cold with C rigs the order of the night keeping numbers low

Again Olly and Paul having a tussle at the front of the fleet leading to equal points in both races. Both sharing the honours after countback.

An evening of very shifty conditions

Both events were well attended given the football match on TV at 5pm (enough said about that)

Overall Olly did the double, which is no easy feat in the fleet these days

What a night. Dark skies circling Fleetwood however sunshine reigned down over the lake for a glorious evenings sail.

We welcomed Mick Boy from Lincoln to joking up with Rob as the Venti boys.

To the racing, Rob again dominating the overall racing winning 5 of the 8 races sailed.

Rob Mick and Derek making up the top three with Mark getting two maximums (missing the start and a transmitter battery dying in the last

The other three races were won by Mick, Mark and Derek who were all racing hard at the sharp end of the fleet rotating places throughout the length of the lake.

Rob (Venti), Mick (Venti) and Derek (Britpop) making up the podium with Marks transmitter packing up on the last beat in 2nd spot in that race.

2 Ventis, 2 Sedicis, 1 Cheinze, 1 Gadget, 1 Vision and 4 Britpops highlights the standard of the fleet

Thanks to Peter Iles for running the racing.

Fairly low turnout due to awful weather conditions (just a reminder it is summer)

Tonight’s IOM results. The wind was a little strange and flicking in different directions

Overall Rob dominated proceeding with Gordon chasing him hard.

A much improved turnout, time to keep it going.

Reminder – it appears that there’s enough interest for IOM sailing on Saturday so 10am at the club?

1st Rob Walsh

2nd Gordon Bayliff

3rd John Sharman

4th Garry Benson

5th Ian Hawtin

6th Walter Audley

7th Mark Rose (missed 5 races)

8th Eric Austwick (missed 7 races)

Well what a day. Summer? What’s summer?

Upon arrival the wind was strong blowing a solid B Rig almost down the lake. The course was set having two lengths of the lake (yes a lot of steps).

Rocking up 13k steps and 6.5 miles on the Garmin reinforces how privileged we are to sail at Fleetwood!

The chop was ever growing and in the end the racing turned into the Volvo Ocean race

To the racing, race 1 was a battle between Mark and Gordon with the fleet in B Rig. Race 2 Terry stormed out the gates and took his first ever IOM race victory at Fleetwood!!

In the middle section, John Eric, Derek and Tony stayed in B rig whilst the fleet went to C Rig which paid off boosting their scores with the long runs on show.

After lunch, the above individuals stayed in B rig but it didn’t pay off this time. Gordon, who had a Tuesday night practice in similar conditions shows that practice pays off and flew round taking 5 on the bounce in C rig.

A good days sailing, the proposal is to hold a pop up on the 15th with a few visitors showing interest.