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Race Report – 4th and 5th November 2023

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The Weekend’s results:-

Four Tens were out on Saturday with a delayed start due to rain/drizzle and an uncooperative wind, we eventually got going on the South Course and did four races before a lunch break.  Two of us changed down at this point and this proved disastrous for Phil, who had stayed in top rig, as he nose dived big time at the last spreader of the last race to let myself through to win the day by one point.  Full results were 
Hugh 8 pts
Phil 9 pts
Richard U 15 pts
Graham 20 pts

Sunday :-

We had 4 skippers for IOMs however two did not have no. 3 Rigs, or it C rigs these days and Les and myself thought it would not be much fun with two and anyway Les does not like waves!  

In fairness it was West 15 gusting 23 knots 

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)