A weekend of IOM sailing ahead 15/16 November

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Horrible wind, but good fun!

Beautiful sunshine, decent fleet, terrible wind direction!

The racing throughout the day was well mannered and some good banter across the fleet.

Olly (Sedici) sailed well to win the day edging Mark (Alioth) and Derek (Dead Reckoning).

A guest appearance by Peter Whiteside sailing Tonys spare Lintel (not on the results) and Rob Johnson breaking in his new Sedici.

The wind was coming over the sandbank leading to a number of lottery races in varying strengths of wind from nothing, to a stiff blow!

 The weather forecast gave strong wind and rain, but on arriving at the lake competitors found the wind was fairly light and there was no rain. Six yachts entered. Unfortunately the wind was from the South East, giving difficult sailing conditions. Most yachts were in top suits of sails.

As the forecast also mentioned that wind strength and rain would increase during the afternoon, it was decided to complete the full round of the schedule and not have lunch until racing was completed. Towards the end of racing the wind strength began to increase and there was a little light rain. Some skippers decided to reduced sail. Racing was completed by 3-00 pm.

Thanks are due to Bob and Harry for looking after the mates’ bank.

Results  

1st   Keith Wiseman        20 points

2nd  Oliver Murray          18

3rd   Peter Whiteside       16

4th   Alan Crawforth        10

5th   Tony Wilson              7

6th   Eric Austwick             4

Competitors battled truly awful winds, weed and heavy rain. All of which lead to a number of early baths, combined with some breakages later on.

Congratulation to Olly on winning the day ahead of Neil Davis and Simon Fairman making up the podium spots.

Thanks to Bob, Shaun and Sharon for helping run the race.