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Marblehead Nationals…. Craig Wins…!!

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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”! )

DF95 Racing on Club Thursday….!!

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The water is lower than last week, the wind was light sw but slowly increasing. 7 races were sailed before we closed. 1st timer with a 95, David Adam, had to leave then. The other 3 of us also decided to leave before the rain started.

JLR

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DF95 TT at Datchet ….!!

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13 skippers turned up for R4 of the M&S DF95 TT R4 event at Datchet RS. The winds were very light from just south of west so there was some delay in getting started but a course was set to the north of the clubhouse around 11:00 and racing got underway. The first race was an indicator for the final positions with Nigel Barrow 1st, Dorian Crease 2nd, and Colin Honour 3rd.

11 more races were run in shifty conditions with a fair amount of course changing. Thanks to Hugh McAdoo in the dinghy and the finishing team of Debbie La Roche and Ralph Wilkinson.

There are now 3 events to go in the series, Gosport, Chipstead, and Eastbourne.