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Racing Report – Marbleheads, Sunday 29th October 2023

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Despite the rain, Datchet members had a very lively weekend. The home fleet fielded seven of its Marbleheads and some great racing was had with Rohan Williams winning the day.  Three of our members travelled to the final 2023 One Metre Ranking event at Woodspring.  In an extremely competitive fleet of 36, the Datchet team put up a really great show. Datchet’s Craig Richards won third place with his 3D printed One Metre… and winning chocolate biscuits!

Looking forward to even more than Craig’s biscuits, it looks like we might have up to four new members by year end.  Next week we race our One Metres.  It’ll be close racing as always ! 

Race Report Sunday 1st October – Marbleheads …!!

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Well done to Craig at the A Class Nationals!

At Datchet today we had 6 Marbleheads including Richard Jones’s brand new F-6.  Some of us expected to be in B or C1 rigs, instead it was A swing rigs, however the direction was sort of SSW with enough shits to make life interesting.  We managed 10 races and the results were;
1st Richard U with 14 pts
2nd Hugh 15 pts was plagued with rig failure
3rd Graham 23 pts
4th Richard J 27 pts new boat nerves?
5th Les 30 pts
6th Phil 46 pts damaged sheet post and two attempts at temporary fixes failed.
Richard with his Quark beat the later designs of F-5 and F-6s

As a heads up, the Ten Rater Rankings for next weekend have been cancelled.  So it will be Club Racing with Tens on Saturday and IOMs on Sunday

(Photos by kind permission of EH)

Race Report – Weekend of 23/24 September !

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Results from the weekend… we had Tens on Saturday and IOMs on Sunday.


On Saturday we had 5 Tens for the first time in ages with a surprise appearance of Nic with his Diamond.  

Results were;
Phil 7 pts
Richard U 11 pts
Graham 18 pts
Nic. 21 pts. Winch failure after 6 races
Hugh 31 pts Servo failure after one race.
It was sailed mostly with top rig, except Richard who broke a shroud rigging, so sailed with his second rig.

We had several notable absentees who were away at the RG65s….so Sunday saw 6 IOMs sail 10 races in no 2 rig.  Richard J kindly acted as race officer for the day.  His new IOM has arrived but no rigs as of Sunday.  We were also joined by James Hadden from Gosport who wanted some practice before the Europeans in October.

Results were;
Nigel 10 pts
Hugh 15 pts
James 20 pts (Guest)
Peter. 26 pts finished with a broken Forestay🫤
David 28 pts left on domestic duties after 6 races
Les 42 pts.

I shall also take the opportunity to congratulate those after the RG65s at West Kirby. Good result!

The IOM Europeans in Spain are in a couple of weeks time. Nigel will be attending.

Also the very good news that Richard Jones has joined the Committee to front up publicity.  Watch this space😁