This was the lake on Wednesday – more breeze than this forecast at the weekend!!
Around 50-60 competitors expected. Yesterday, the motorhome area had been marked out and power was being supplied. (miles of nice blue cable!) We had good news from the landlord that we shall, after all, have full access to the control area for the north course!! Hugh is considering the buoy positions down there. The scorers were practising setting up all the kit. Ready to go!!
Datchet’s Craig and Nigel made the treck to Woodspring for the weekend – and did extremely well down there. It’ll have been blowing just as hard as it was for us at the Club, I imagine. Nigel got a couple of brilliant wins in the Viss and was right up there, but Craig sailed in a league of his own.
Proteus looking good!
Full reports awaited 🙂
As at 28th February we had 48 entries showing for the Nationals. There’ll be a few more to come.
At four dozen, it doesn’t seem too soon to see how the entry population looks as far as designs are concerned. What is happening at the sharp end of the UK Fleet?
Not at all surprising that the most popular design in the fleet will be the fabulous Britpop – making up a third of the Fleet.
Quite surprising is the number of Venti now …. almost 20% of the fleet and you get a feeling that popularity is really growing. Momentum behind Venti is starting to build now.
Big surprise is the Proteus – after only a year (is it less?? I forget…) of home builds, already 10% of the Championship Fleet. With more and more coming off the home printing lines, it’s already exceeding the Alioth and Viss. Interesting. Just wait until the K7 glassfibre boats hit the market, eh?
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