After a week off, Kevin Last returned to the pond and won the first race from Paul Jago and Jill Reid. In the second race, Kevin repeated his feat winning the slow fleet from Jon Adams in his Rooster 8.1 and Kevin Milton. Paul Jago won the slow fleet from Mike Pritchard and Andrew Beaumont.
sees Paul Jago win the first race with Bob Cuerstemont and Mike Pritchard winning Fast and Slow fleets respectively in Race 2.
We had a lively evening yesterday with gusts up to 30 knots.
Wednesday night saw a 15 strong fleet and some reasonable wind for race No. 8 of the series. After a slightly starboard biased start Mike soon managed to clear the fleet and the weed to take the lead. Jonathan, however, had some technical difficulties just before the start and had to take a pit stop […]
Paul Jago sailed two stunning races to overcome the difficult conditions with the wind coming in from the railway line. The increasing weed caused a few problems for some of the larger boats and the committee will be looking at this challenge this week – any environmentally solutions welcome. Paul Jago won the first race […]
After six races of the season, the junior fleet is currently led by David Bates, closely followed by Martin Atkinson and Jill Reid. David has won three of the six races so well done to him.
Cygnet Series 5th Race 8th July 2017. Saturday’s race was another great success as all the juniors took part in it; the weather was great not to cold not to hot and not to windy. The course Keith set was good but challenging ; David, Martin, Iona and Thomas had a great start but for […]
Another great turnout of 15 boats on a warm summers evening with the drama of a premature start the wind slowly died and then finally increased towards the end of the race. There was a close finish with a tie for first place between Paul Jago and Jonathan Adams with Kev Last in third pace. […]
Report on recent Spring Series that saw some great racing, although most of the talk in the dinghy park was how Iona Reid had beaten Jon Adams to take third place in the bronze fleet, leaving Jon there for another season! For report Click Here
The continuing hot weather, light winds and thermals made for interesting racing on Sunday but Race Officer Andrew Beaumont still managed to set some of the best courses of the season. The first race for the general Handicap Series was won by Mike Pritchard from Paul Jago, Bob Cuerstemont and Kevin Last. The fifth boat […]