After three successive weekends of Marbleheads… and strong breezes, we changed gear to Tens and IOMS… and strong breezes !!

Results from the weekend.

Congratulations to Richard Uttley and Nic Charles winning on Saturday and Sunday respectively.  Four tens starting racing on Saturday in second suits, possibly it should have been Third suits.  Graham had rudder issues and only completed one race.  During the fourth race I lost rudder control and then sheeting and the boat took off heading north of the Castle later to be rescued by a RIB,  on getting the boat ashore it was discovered that a suspect short/overload in the rudder servo had caused a small electrical fire and the servo wiring was still smouldering.  Needless to say this put pay to any further racing for myself and Phil and Richard U decided to give up.

1st Richard. 4 pts
2nd Phil. 5 pts
3rd Hugh. 6 pts
4th Graham. 14 pts

On Sunday we had 5 IOMs and Roger who decided not to sail his borrowed boat.  We started in Third (smallest rig) and after 4 races we decided that no. 2 Rig would be OK.  In all we did ten races and the scores were

1st Nic Charles. 10 pts (6 wins)
2nd Hugh. 16 pts
3rd David. 20pts
4th Peter. 30 pts
5th Phil. 36 pts
It’s fair to say that both Peter and Phil had boat issues which accounts for their relatively high points tally. 

Marbleheads next weekend.

Marbleheads yesterday at Datchet.  Conditions were a little better that the two days of Rankings last weekend.  However C3s we’re the order of the day.  

Three of us did not have C3s, I briefly tried a C2 but together with water in the pot did not start, this left three ready for racing.  After two races, won by Phil and Nigel respectively, they came ashore for a bit of a re trim, Richard U sailing the late John Shorrock’s Quark.  

Phil had to take his Grandson home and he kindly lent me his F-6.  We then sailed another 7 races with several breaks for coffee and battery changes, Phil’s boat was in excellent form and I managed to win 6 of these 7.  

The fun ended when Nigel had commitments at home and Richard and I decided that racing with two was a non starter.

The points were
Hugh  8 pts
Nigel  13 pts
Richard  18 pts

Hopefully we will have a little less wind for Tens and IOMs next weekend😑