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Marbleheads 31st August…!!

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Simply gorgeous day at Datchet today!! We all had a terrific time in B rig, almost C rig breezes. Honestly – so much fun! Marbleheads are fantastic on this kind of day. Our new member, CW (who drives two hours each way) had simply the best time!!

Still in the holiday season but five of us turned out for racing. The water level was perfectly manageable (see photo above ). We could pretty easily launch off the main pontoon in the photo then walked along the beach toward the camera so that the large flat concrete plateau there was our control area.

Both DA and RJ managed to find a magnetic attraction with marker buoy warps closer to the surface than we expected! Much expertise was on hand to get us unstuck.

Next weekend we have the Ten Rater Rankings for two days. Spectators and Volunteers for race team welcome!

Results Overall:-

Phil H (F6) 10 pts

David A (grunge) 13pts

Chris W (Indie) 16pts

Graham H (F6) 19pts

Richard J (F6) 23 pts

3D Printing an IOM Stand

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I confess that I don’t fully understand 3D printing but it seems to be on the way to making some big changes to our sailing world.

I was just browsing for IOM Stand designs and this website came up. Note the first few photos – a printed IOM Stand !!

If you browse down there are a few more IOM components but another thing item that caught my eye was some very natty aerodynamic IOM Spreaders…

https://www.yeggi.com/q/iom%20boat%20stand/

Tens on Saturday 23rd and IOM’s On Sunday 24th – Nigel’s New VISS ….!!

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Ten Raters were on Saturday – no wind though!! Commodore said they had to push the boats out then had a long drift to get them back again!! RW brought along his new Trance – what a looker that boat is !!

Then to IOM Sunday and Phil’s Report :-

Low water level today meant we could walk along the lower beach on the North shore, by next week we should be able to drive down to the waters edge.

The first sighting at Datchet of the new VISS design from Sailboat RC – yes, Nigel’s new beauty has arrived !!

Eight IOM’s today including guests Ken McAlpine and Harry Neil. Shifty light winds and lack of buoys to set a good course didn’t make life easy but Craig (Proteus) , Nigel (Viss) , Dorian (Britpop) and David (V12) dominated at the front of the fleet.

First couple of races didn’t get scored (Jim did well !!) while boats were sorted and tweaked but we did score four races before adjourning for lunch. Craig, Nigel and Dorian practiced after lunch while Phil & Jim recovered a few of the grounded marks and reset them further into the lake.

To read more about Nigel’s VISS, click the following links.

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/the-first-outings-with-the-viss

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/racing-the-viss