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

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

IOM Rankings Ready to Go …!!

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

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( 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 !!