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Marblehead Nationals…. Craig Wins…!!

The UK Marblehead Nationals were held over the weekend up in Staffordshire.

Datchet Radio Sailing fielded a strong team of four – Craig Richards, Nigel Barrow, Jim La Roche and Graham Hetem…. all sailing their F6’s.

The Saturday was rainy and light and only one race completed, but there was a very full race schedule on Sunday.

Craig took an outstanding victory and claimed the UK title!!

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The PRO was using a double gated course, just as we saw at the One Metre Worlds. Interesting!!

It will have been a challenging weekend so a huge congratulations to Craig and to the whole team !!

( Jim La Roche with “transmitter thumb”! )

Marblehead Nationals Coming Up ….!!

The Marblehead Nationals are coming up this weekend at Manor Park. There look to be 19 entrants and Datchet has a team of 5 going !

Best of Luck to Nigel, Graham, Austin, Jim and Craig !!

Sunday 22nd June – Marbleheads ….!!

Totally brilliant day today. A bright, bright, unforgettable light over the reservoir and a building breeze of the 15 gusting 30+ variety. B rigs all around! It was really fast moving.

Our numbers were lower, but we were expecting 6 and got 5,… our fellow member number 6 needed a day with his feet up !! (Hope you feel improved now, H !) We had a stonking breeze and a huge amount of fun. We raced pretty much a full programme of two half sessions. Until about ten days ago I’d hardly used my B and never used my C, so all the new bits of string got a fair stress test today 🙂

The commodore had a pretty strong results day, but the other joy was Graham’s newly fettled boat was really flying and scoring highly.

Meanwhile our fellow members were also doing brilliantly at Eastbourne and Keighley. I haven’t seen the final results yet for the IOMs at Eastbourne but rumour has it that Craig, Dorian and Nigel scored a 1,2,3 there. We also had three members at the RG65 Nationals in Keighley and where Rohan scored a 5th in a pretty talented and big-name field. I gather it was breezy there too!!