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Dear All,
This was a very encouraging club meeting at Abbey Meads. It was sunny and there was at times a reasonable north-westerly A rig wind towards the end of the morning. Most encouraging for Roger was to find the gates open, the boat and gear out on its trailer and Mark, who had set this up, raring to go sailing.
However, beforehand we had to investigate vandal damage to the west bank landing stage, where there appeared to be only one of the 2 posts supporting it. The fixing to the stair strings with chains instead of rope had worked and the landing stage had not been moved. Whilst the post appeared missing the vandals had snapped it off above the landing stage and we later found it afloat in the bushes. However the really heavy Danforth anchor on a 5 m length of heavy chain to ensure that the landing stage would not float away had been pulled up. Roger and Martin rode out in the boat to relay this mooring and to leave the buoys that had been pulled ashore moored in the centre of the lake to avoid further repositioning by fishermen.
5 competitors sailed 10 races and whilst these included GMYC members Martin, Mark and myself, we were delighted to have the pleasure of top A boat designer, Jon Simpson and his young teenage son Jeremy, to sail with us and help Jeremy understand a bit more about sailing. They raced Roger’s ROAR EDGE Marblehead alternately and won the first race as can be seen from the ARCADIA Trophy scoresheet and they enjoyed our club event. The only downside was that there was some straggly lengths of weed on the course which made its impact on the initial races in particular. It affected everyone, to some extent during the day, but even with his short keel on his PRIME NUMBER Martin suffered most, as can be seen in the results of the first few races. However Martin was the most consistent and his 5 first places broke the tie with Roger for the trophy.
Not only did Mark put the boat out, but he also put it away and as can be seen from the website was also the official photographer of the day. Many thanks indeed.
Whilst this is our final summer time club event, before re-starting in September, there is the WoW! event 8 on 17 July and an opportunity for more Marblehead sailing at the GAMES 9 interclub event at Woking, which it is hoped will be supported well by GMYC and other district club members. If you are really keen there is the opportunity for a late entry to the Marblehead Nationals at West Kirby on the 20th-21 July. At our club event on Saturday 14 September
for the Ted Gearey Trophy, the club are hoping to be part of Bart’s Bash to create a world record entry for a sailing event. This is to publicise sailing and publicise radio sailing within the full-size sailing world and also to help fund the Andrew Simpson Foundation which funds introductory events for those new to sailing. Details will be advised in due course.
Cheers, Roger
