Unfortunately we had only three skippers for this event, some others were away or not feeling good.
Getting to the club took far longer than usual because of the heavy overnight rain which had caused widespread flooding.
For this reason we decided to sail from the south bank despite the northerly breeze so that we could park on the road and not get stuck in the mud.
It actually worked out well because the wind went slightly round to the west and amazingly one of our old marks which had been lost in the trees for best part of a year suddenly reappeared presumably courtesy of storm Bert.
Anyway this buoy anchored itself it the right place for us to use it as a windward mark so with two other marks laid for a start line these were used as a gate on the intermediate lap and a finish line on the last lap, and this worked well.
The racing was almost at the top end of A rig but we held on with only a few nose dives and did 12 races before we decided we were too cold to carry on.
As is becoming usual each of us had wins but it was Simon Johnson who had the most so gave yet another winner to the series.
Full results are attached and the final event of the series is on 11th December and the final position is still wide open
Report by Martin Crysell
Click Here for Results: 2024-11-27 DF95
