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 !
If you have new sails, you’ll be wanting to get the numbers and insignia on them – and if you race internationally then you’ll want your country code as well.
Where is this all defined? Read through your Class rules first, and then for at least the international classes, you’ll need to check what it says in the Radio Sailing Appendix (E) of World Sailing’s rules…. subsection “G”.
Most of it is there I think, letter size(min max), gaps, which side is highest (starboard), distance between rows and all of that.
You can use stick on numbers if they comply, but I feel most people use an indelible pen. BG Design does great stencils in the correct size (if you tape them together, you have the correct gaps) and can supply an appropriate pen. In the end, I went to the local stationers and bought two indelible pens – a superfine and a chisel ended felt pen (much more versatile than a round point).
I taped the BG stencils in place, traced around with the superfine. The error to avoid is ink leaking under the stencil, so keep the pen moving quite quickly. Then I removed the stencils and used the chisel ended pen to “colour in” the outlines. Worked well. There are some good hints and tips on the Sailsetc website. Worth a read.
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
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