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IOM Sunday – Light Breezes But a Ton of Fun…!!

( Mummy with Baby Ducks give Nigel a Swim-Past )

We had six One Metres with us today, including a potential new member! Phil, Craig, Nigel, Dorian, Richard from the club. Honestly the breeze was a bit light, but there was always enough to go round and we had a blast! Craig was PROing and wisely in these conditions set us a bunch of sprint races out to a windward mark and back. Far enough – We had plenty of fun and all learned a lot.

Doctor Dorian did a couple of amazing IOM tuning clinics in the coffee break, and as one of the happy recipients I can only say how grateful and amazed I was !!

The racing adjourned for lunch and then the Eastbourne victory trio of Nigel, Dorian and Craig put in some serious boat-on-boat tuning practice. As ever with this sport you can often learn more by watching the top personalities than by competing against them!! It was really impressive – lots of tweaking, practice starts, in phase and out of phase tacking and so on. Surprisingly revealing and great to see the two Proteus design boats going so well…. Nigel was especially nippy today !!

The sharp eyed DRS members will notice first our new on-course windsocks, but also the idea needs an upward tweak to get the sock tails out of the water. PH is on it !!

(Our Datchet Heroes from Eastbourne – left to right Nigel, Dorian and Craig)

Honestly when these guys are concentrating you can feel the vibrations in the banter !

Nigel – just tweaking the spoodler adjuster

Dorian in front – Craig and Nigel in pursuit!

Windsor in the distance, on-course Windsock has a sense of humour

Next week the IOM Rankings event – two days, 35-40 entrants !!

DF95 Thursday …!!

Three 95’s braved a 15 knot gusting 20 SW wind down the lake with large waves. B rigs order of day with Rossco using A as his only option. My first time using a B rig so time spent getting the set up right. Despite a handicap upwind the A rig shot downwind. After the boats been blown flat during a prolonged gust we called it a day at 12 just before a biblical shower!

AG

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!!