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Sunday 7th July at Datchet – Saving the Launching Platform…!!

Unexpectedly we had rather a great day at Datchet on Sunday. So many people are racing away, we only had four Marbleheads out and the weather was a challenge. (I did discover embarrassingly that my shorts go transparent when drenched by rain… 😦 … twice…)

We had B rigs on, did maybe five races or so before the strong breeze collapsed to zero. We invested in more tea and coffee, but actually the company was great and the chatter even better. For myself, I needed a fair bit of advice (tacking in a breeze without coming to a dead halt!) and my fellow club mates were falling over themselves to help.

Club management was quick to point out that we had lost one of our two launching platforms in last week’s summer gales. Impossibly the platform started life to the north of the RIB pontoon, and ended up rammed and jammed under the south side. A mystery that is.

Two of our amazing radio sailors immediately piled in and dislodged the thing… wrestling it to the shore. Next Job was to haul it out of harm’s way with the Club Jeep.

A roller wheel has parted from the leg nearest the camera. However, our Sailing Secretary has recovered it from further around the bay. It looks repairable.

Great news!!

Race Officers Report – IOMs Sunday 30th June !!

Sorry for those that had the delays on the M4. It was probably not a good drive home for any of us.
Yesterday’s IOM racing with 9  boats and 9 races in a variable NW’ly wind both in direction and force gave some interesting races.  We had 4 different race winners, so Craig did not have it all his way, with Nigel actually achieving more wins, but some poor results lead to a higher score.  Phil and myself shared one win a piece.  The racing was close most of the time, even if the fleet often got split in two due to being caught on lulls/flat spots.

This concludes the Spring Series for all Classes.  I will send the Series results later.

HM

A Huge Thank You

Datchet Radio Sailing have hosted two major National Championships over the last two weekends. Starting with the Marblehead Class on the 1st/2nd June followed by the 10Rater Class over the 8th/9th June. Both events were successful despite tricky wind directions and feedback from competitors both local and international has been extremely positive. The success of these events would not have come about without the hard work put in by DRS members and others, from Race Officer and team to boat crew to catering and clearing up the club presented itself exceptionally and over half of our members along with support from the main sailing club as well as a volunteer from Guildford club were involved in making this happen. A huge thank you to you all for all your efforts it is very much appreciated.