Report on WSS 6 on 12th July
This was a record turnout of 9 competitors, even without Martin able to be at Abbey Meads. Thanks go to Mike for bringing along his son and helping to set up for the day and recording scores. With the latest lane restrictions at the A3/M25 junction and road closure between Addlestone & St Peter’s Hospital extended my normal 25 minute journey by over an hour, despite following the non-motorway route via Woking.
Fortunately, the wind was more south-westerly than the westerly forecast and allowed a reasonable course to be set from the west control area. Photos do not reveal the excitement of the racing, which was very close at times and gave great flat out speed on some of the offering legs in the gusts. Congratulations to Barrie who won 8 out of the 15 races and only counted second places in his total score!
The plastic boat suffered what might have been a disaster when one of the plastic rowlock fixings broke, but fortunately there was a rowlock hole at the stern to allow me to skull to finish the buoy laying.
This report will be attached along with Alan’s score sheet, the pic page & the overall Series Scores with event 6 included.
Roger Stollery 2023-07-13
The HALFPENNY Trophy GAMES 5 Report
Despite a small entry, 16 races were sailed on a hot summers day in light east north-east variable breezes and created some close & exciting finishes. RO Martin Crysell set a two lap windward leeward course with a selection of 3 windward marks, starting and finishing on a line between them, with each race taking approximately 15 minutes.
Nigel Barrow sailing a borrowed F6 started well with 3 straight wins and set the pace for the chasing pack of Barrie Martin sailing a STARKERS SQUARED & Dave Andrews sailing a GRUNGE.
The lunchtime leaderboard was headed by Nigel with 10 points, Barrie 12 & Roger Stollery 20.
The afternoon results, now with only 5 racing, belonged to Roger with 4 wins, 2 seconds & a third, but the main interest was whether Nigel could hold onto his lead over Barrie, who had 3 wins in this session. However Nigel’s consistency with just one win and 4 seconds allowed him to win the new HALFPENNY Trophy by just one point!
At the prize giving Nigel thanked Martin & Keith Parrott for running another good GAMES event and like every open event at Abbey Meads there is also a prize for the last competitor still racing; without those at the bottom of the list there would be no winners. Racing a Marblehead for the first time Celia Greetham was delighted with her micro-turbo cutter!
Results:
1st Nigel Barrow Frensham Pond F6 – 22 points
2nd Barrie Martin London MYC STARKERS – 23
3rd Roger Stollery Guildford MYC UP – 32
4th Graham Hetem Datchet Water F6 – 54
5th Celia Greetham London MYC ROAR EDGE – 58
6th David Andrews London MYC GRUNGE – 78
7th David Cole Hampton Court GRUNGE – 99
GAMES results update
1st Nigel Barrow – 350.1
2nd Roger Stollery – 261
3rd Paul Tickner – 230.6
WSS 4 Report & Scores
It was a beautiful hot day and attracted 9 entries, but the wind was not as forecast with too much northerly and not enough easterly and it was frustratingly variable in strength. We opted to sail from the south bank, which generally gave a windward leeward course, which was beneficially reset to the north-east wind after the lunch break.. There was much frustration particularly at the windward mark in the shadow of the trees, but 5 of the 8 competitors won races, with the eventual winner of the event, Barrie Martin, and Simon Collyer visiting from Alton Water both winning 4 races.
Simon Johnson, from Hampton Court and Simon Collyer were competing for the ROF, Roger’s 1 One gram Flag offered in the every Notice of Race for this series to be won by the leading visiting competitor. Although only winning one race Simon Johnson was the most consistent finishing with score of 38 to finish 2nd in the event, whilst Simon Collyer after a brilliant start finished with a score of 46 to finish 4th in the event, as you can see from the scoresheet below. A few images were captured by Roger in Races 12 and 13 & Barrie at the prize giving.The club had planned a workparty to cut down some of the vegetation, but it was frankly too hot to consider this after the 14 races sailed by the 2 o’clock deadline and putting the dinghies & gear away in the clubhouse. We did inspect the west bank before the event and reckoned that this will be a problem if we had to sail the HALFPENNY Trophy from that control area. The promised grass cutting on the south bank hasn’t materialised and we will have to put up with rather long grass if we operate from south bank, which now appears likely. This appears in Barrie’s photo of the lake on the pic page.
df 95 Summer Series 3 – 24 May 2023
It was a disappointing entry of only 3 skippers for this event.
But you missed one of the best days sailing for a long time, when we started with a easy windward leeward course using the two blue buoys as the windward marks, at this stage the sun was shining and the wind was pretty much straight down the lake giving some great racing.
In fact after only race four each of the three skippers had won a race so it was all very competitive.
The wind did desert us a bit after race eight and start to do it’s usual comings and goings but we still had some close racing’ which we all enjoyed.
We sailed till 1.30pm which suited everybody and managed to sail a total of 16 races so we could all get our 3 discards.
Although the wind got a bit frustrating towards the end we all enjoyed a good days sailing.
Final nett finishing points were,
Martin Crysell 16
David Coode 25
Slieve McGilliard 31
Lets hope for a bigger entry for the next race on the 14th June
