The first official scores will be published tonight after validation with individual scorecards.
Due to late finishes, 11 resails and breakages the results published are provisional until everything complete.
Today is a half day and resails are to be concluded so will give an accurate reflection with two days to go

Subject to 11 resails

Fleetwood edging Windrush in the Neptune

11 resails to go – draft results

A day of wind, waves and weeeed!   Five skippers started the morning (Eric was delayed), all in C rig, except for Tony W with his heavyweight Lintel, he opted for B rig, which seemed to suit.  As the wind was barrelling down the lake from the west, we started on the Yellow line, up to the Red gate and then back downwind to Yellow Buoy #1, the finish over the Yellow line, keeping away from the waves and the weed accumulation at the clubhouse end.  Despite this, we all caught the ‘grass weed’, several of us more than once.  Getting the boats out at the end of a long starboard  tack and clearing the weed seemed a good tactic, but in the gusty wind and waves catch and release was somewhat dicey.  Paul M sensibly quit during race 2, to avoid damage to his lovely V12, but the other four kept on with the weed lottery.  (oh, and 2x stray crab lines).  Eric joined in for race 6, just in time for Tony to get water in the electrics and cut his knee.  After Race 8 we stopped for lunch and, in the increasing wind and waves, didn’t restart in the afternoon.  Thanks to Paul for starting and scoring, and to Garry and Tony for helping get the clubhouse end weed rafts out of the lake.  Hopefully this wind will have moved most of the weed down to the end ready for tomorrow’s Northern District R6M championship.

IOM – no scores

Well what a result ladies and germs!  A low turnout again, but a lovely afternoon and evening, marred only by an excess of floating weeeeeed.

The three musketeers organised themselves in the afternoon (Peter was out having tea and scones), with Derek taking the win from Eric and John.  

In the evening peter was sufficiently sconed-up to join in, and Mark came along as well. At the end of the session, after discards we had a three-way tie for first place.  All had equal numbers of firsts and seconds, and it was only on thirds that Mark tiptoed past Derek and we had to go to fourths for Derek to pass John!  Eric came in next leaving Peter to bring up the rear.  Thanks to Paul for starting and scoring both events.