DF65 Racing 19 Oct'22

9 Sailors competed in blustery conditions, which got better later in the morning which ended in warm sunshine and reasonably consistent moderate E to NE breeze. The course was 4/Y,OB,4,5,OB,4,5,OB/W with W added and a wing mark after OB after a couple of heats.

Racing was sometimes close and sometimes spread apart, depending largely on when the header between 5 and OB kicked in. Bruce's sail winch gave up at the beginning of heat 5, but everyone else survived unscathed.

The top three today were 1st-J Bennett (002), 2nd-C Wilson (06) and 3rd-J Richardson (43).

Best wishes,

Bruce

DF65 Results 19 Oct'22

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IOM 14th October Race 7

Seven competitors took part in today's race event. After a couple of 10 minute postponments, Wilson set the fleet a short triangular course which was to be completed within a fifteen minute window. Following an early comfort break, there appeared enough of a breeze to lengthen the existing course:- Start OR/W - (8 - OR - W) x 2 Fin' 5/8. A mixed bag of fortunes was hadacross the width of the lake, on windward beats, both to #8 and to the finish. After six races with one concessionary discard result, as per 'Appendix A', the morning's podium honours go to:-

1st Place - JB helming #80, 2nd - RD sailing #15, 3rd - MC and his scratch-built #169.

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As I thought it may be appropriate ............................ Here is a short poem called Drifting, from a diminutive publication

from around 1930, of fifty favourite poems

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DF65 Results 12 October'22

12 skippers arrived in lovely sunny weather, but a flat calm delayed racing for about 15 minutes. The forecast SW then started from the NE and allowed a single lap race: 4/Y,OB,4/Y. As the wind picked up this was increased to 2 laps for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th races and after the break a new course of OB/0,7,Y,OB,2,8,Y,OB,2,5/8 was made possible as the wind had turned through 180º. Some very close finishes with places changing all the way round and also some races where one group of boats got well ahead of another.

Today's top three are J Richardson (43), R Dyer (25) and J Bennett (002). Congratulations to them.

Best wishes,

Bruce

DF65 Results 12 Oct'22

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