Well done Peter who finished 2nd in the IOM Worlds in Foster City California USA, held from 8th to 16th May, Peter lead for all but the last race of the 1st half of the event, well done. To see more visit the IOM worlds site here: http://www.usaiomworlds.com/news
Great sailing on a superb water at Abbey Meads with lots of your Marblehead friends!
The Guildford Model Yacht Club extends a very warm welcome to all Marblehead enthusiasts for the M&S ranking event at our water at Abbey Meads lake, Chertsey.
The Guildford race team will do their best to give you a good day’s racing. The current IRSA Marblehead class rules will apply and the racing will be governed by the RRS 2013-2016 modified by the current MYA Standard Sailing Instructions, HMS 2014 and the MYA Regulations governing the organisation of the event. The relevant notices are as follows:
REGISTRATION – 0845 to 0930 hours
BRIEFING – this will start at approximately 0945 hours.
RACING TIMES – the first race will start soon after the briefing at approximately 1000 hours – no race will start after 1630 hours and any race in progress at 1700 hours will be abandoned.
Please make the relevant boat certificate, PSN certificate available at the registration table, where the entry fee of £5.00 is to be paid as soon as possible after you arrive. We will inform competitors in advance if there is a requirement to add any prefix etc to modify sail numbers to avoid clashes.
As well as the ACORN Trophy and winners’ prizes, there will also be a Junior prize for the best competitor under 18.
Please use the MYA online entry system; go to the MYA website front page, click the calendar tab and scroll down to our event on 31 May where the entry form will appear. Please ignore the requirement to send the entry fee prior to the event, as we would prefer the fees at registration. Please enter by midnight on Thursday 28th May, but don’t leave entering to the last minute – enter now!
For more details or if you want to borrow a boat, or have any queries don’t hesitate to phone Roger Stollery 01483 421 801 or e-mail stollery17@sky.com
You will find ABBEY MEADS lake easily, provided you don’t use the route recommended by Google! Please stick to the following directions. From whatever direction you are travelling, follow the brown signs to THORPE PARK and go to the roundabout at their entrance. Then travel south on the A320 towards Chertsey and you will see the lake on your left. After a few hundred yards turn left off the road, where signposted ‘Chertsey Water Treatment Works’ and where you should also see a sign, RADIO SAILING. If you are coming to watch and arrive whilst we are racing, follow the instructions on the gate and phone the number shown there to get the code to unlock the gate. Alternatively remember the 1617 code number to unlock the brass GMYC number padlock and replace it as you found it once you are through. If all else fails just sit on your horn!
11 competitors arrived to a borderline B or C rig breeze blowing straight down the lake and the prospect of a challenging day’s racing ahead. The club’s anemometer showed a steady 15 mph gusting to 20 during the practice and this built all day forcing the lower rigs to be used but more on that later.
The simple windward, leeward course with a spreader mark and a leeward gate made good use of the length of the lake, the shallow edges to this natural banked lake did mean the racing was tight and in these strong conditions the fleet had to keep good boat control.
Philip Udall from Eastleigh club dropped out before the finish of the first race and Rob Vice broke his rudder servo mounting in race 2. Phil Holiday’s Quark2 was making the best progress in the morning and after missing the first 3 races, Alf Reynolds was making some great starts and consistently scoring low. With the breeze building further and rain heavy in the air a lunch break was taken after 8 races. Only 2 boats managed to finish all 8 morning races, the scores without discards were:
Phil Holiday 24
John Shorrock 26
Hugh MacAdoo 38
Peter Popham 43
Gordon Beddall 50
Dick Gobbins 54
John Bennett 55
Alf Reynolds 56
Alan Viney 57
Rob Vice 86
Philip Udall 96
The rain came down harder and the smaller C2 rig was now required forcing Alan and Gordon to retire for the day as the wind surpassed their C rigs.
Alf survived one more race before retiring and the rest changed into their C3 rigs, Dick got as far as race 13 and John Bennett retired after race 14.
John Shorrock and his Quark really took a strangle hold on the first places winning 7 of the afternoon’s 8 races with Peter Popham taking 6 second places and a win with his Cream Cracker, leaving the rest to survive the conditions and fight out the minor places. By the last two races there only 4 battle hardened skippers racing and each enjoyed the strongest of the breezes including at least one gust of 43mph and sustained periods of 30mph.
Some fantastic sailing from John, who was the only skipper to finish every race today, secured the district championship with a commanding victory but everyone who sailed at all, got to enjoy these fabulous yachts in some wonderfully testing conditions.
The scores at the end of the day and after 3 discards were:
John Shorrock 20
Peter Popham 32
Hugh MacAdoo 36
Phil Holiday 42
John Bennett 74
Dick Gobbins 92
Gordon Beddall 104
Alf Reynolds 109
Alan Viney 117
Rob Vice 146
Philip Udall 156
Report and Photos with thanks to Rob Vice
The first of the 2015 GAMES events attracted sixteen competitors from nine clubs, including seven who were ‘new’ to this Interclub/Open at Eastleigh Model Boat Club. The variable light to moderate ‘A’ rig north-easterly wind blew straight down the lake and gave some long beating and running conditions around the triangular courses set by PRO Derek Barratt.
Racing was organised by Derek’s own ‘fleet’ system. The entry was divided into three equal fleets and competitors stayed in these fleets all day. Competitors sailed against the other two fleets in turn and then were off the water for one race, making a round of three races. Seven rounds were sailed giving everyone 14 races. These were sailed in a very sportsmanlike manner with everyone doing their penalty turns without being prompted.
The morning races were dominated by Roger Stollery’s brand new UPROAR winning four races, but John Cleave sailing a SKALPEL, who won two, was more consistent and only one point behind on the lunchtime leaderboard with 10 points, in front of local competitor Chris Wilson with his own designed SCIMITAR with 20 points.
In the afternoon the wind veered and increased so that at times there was plenty of planing offwind and at other times rudders in the air! The course was changed so that it made the beats shorter and the reaching legs longer, which added to the speed of these superfast boats. Alan Viney enjoyed these conditions and put up the best performance of the day sailing his PRIME NUMBER. He won three races on the trot and the last race, pulling him up from ninth at lunchtime to tie for second place with famous full-size sailor, Dick Jobbins. With all those wins compared with Dick’s two he took second place on count back.
Alan was absolutely delighted, as in previous open events he had never won a single race.
His Guildford clubmate, Roger was also pleased with the results of testing UPROAR against the 10 other designs racing.
Derek Barratt and the Eastleigh and District Model Boat Club race team were thanked by the prizewinners for running the event in such cold drizzly conditions.
Results:
1st Roger Stollery Guildford UPROAR 18, 2nd Alan Viney Guildford PRIME NUMBER 34, 3rd Dick Jobbins Solent CONSTELLATION 34, 4th John Cleave Ryde SKALPEL 36, 5th Chris Wilson Eastleigh SCIMITAR 41, 6th John Bennett Eastleigh PARADOX 41, 7th John Tufnall Solent CONSTELLATION 43, 8th Nigel Brown Gosport GOTHIC 45, 9th Richard Uttley Emsworth STARKERS CUBED 47, 10th Peter Crisp Swanley STARKERS CUBED 52, 11th Phil Holliday Watermead QUARK 64, 12th Alan Nash Eastleigh STARKERS CUBED 69, 13th Austin Brierley Eastleigh COMPOSIT 77, 14th Neil Burdon Eastleigh UNKNOWN 94, 15th Brian Wade Eastleigh UNKNOWN 108, 16th Phil Udall CRAZY TUBE FREE 109.
Alan Viney Games 1 2015
Friday 20 February – SAIL TRIMMING: your rig is your engine and you need to have it developing maximum power, so that not only does your boat handle well and ‘feel’ good, but also sails fast. Sail trimming and techniques for achieving this by both improving standing rigging and running lines will be demonstrated on boats that we hope you will bring for a critique by Hugh and Roger.
We look forward to seeing you!
This was another successful workshop with 20 attendees from 6 clubs in the M&S District. We were pleased to welcome two lady members. Although Hugh was unable to bring along his beautifully restored 1930s 6 m, there was plenty of detail in re-rigging older boats that were brought to demonstrate improvements that can be made in adjusting ‘rigging’, from a simple method of making an adjustable Dyneema mast ring to close the gap between mast and sail, to basic adjustments of mast shape to enhance downwind performance.
Always the formal talk by Roger Stollery generates questions and after the coffee break he explained the reasons why in strong winds, rigs often perform better when moved further aft or with the mast in the same place, but with smaller jibs. As well as the rigging adjustments for going downwind, the alternative suggested for the conventionally Marblehead was to change the geometry to a swing rig, against which this boat usually competes. As there is already a swing rig mast position to change would not be difficult.
Another question about where the mast should be placed on an 8 metre that that has 3 different mast positions was answered by imagining the mast right at the bow or right at the stern and the effect that this has on the balance of the boat with the downforce the sail either immersing the bow and making the boat luff or the reverse. In the end it comes down to doing trials with the mast in the the existing forward and aft positions and testing which makes the boat go better.
What is good about these workshops is not necessarily the formal talk but the informal exchange of ideas and questions that has the meeting buzzing. Indeed sometimes Roger felt embarrassed to restart the talk when there was already lively debate in the Victoria Hall.
The next workshop is on Friday 20th of February
Sunday 8th February 2014
Guildford Model Yacht Club extends a very warm welcome to you for the first 2015 Footy open event.
Come and enjoy racing your Footy at Abbey Meads Lake, Chertsey and help us to create some fun in a friendly, but competitive atmosphere.
We are able set North/South courses from the West bank. Recently we have been having difficulty with vehicles on the muddy track to the control area. If this Western control area is to be used then parking is restricted to the tarmac close to the entrance gates. Probably rubber boots will be essential for walking along the track to the control area. We apologise that there are no toilet facilities, but there are lots of bushes! If the weather is wet, there will be shelter etc in our gazebo. On on the South bank from where we control the racing for East/West courses parking directly off the road is available close to the Control Area; however here to the ground may be muddy.
Hugh McAdoo will be the PRO and racing will be conducted using the RRS 2013-2016 modified by the MYA Standard Sailing Instructions. The current 2009 Footy Class Rules will apply. We would ask you to limit the size of your biggest rigs to comply with the ‘Experimental Footy rig Template‘. The relevant notices are as follows:
REGISTRATION and measurement check 08.40 to 09.30 hours.
BRIEFING – this will start at approximately 09.40 hours.
RACING TIMES – the first race will start soon after the briefing at approximately 10.00 hours – no race will start after 15.00 hours and any race in progress at 15.30 hours will be abandoned.
Please make sure that your correct sail numbers are clearly displayed on your mainsails: just the last two digits of your boat’s registration number. When you bring your boat for registration, please make sure that it will fit in the ‘Footy measurement box’, as required by class rules.
As well as Fred’ Big Toephy and prizes for the winners and junior winners, there will be the first of the ‘novICE’ trophies for novice competitors that have not finished in the top 3 in the Footy open events in the last 2 years. The 2014 Traveller’s Trophy will also be presented.
The entry fee will be £3.00, to be paid on the day. Entries and any queries should go to Roger Stollery and may be either phoned through on 01483 421 801 or e-mailed to stollery17@sky.com before midnight on Thursday 29th January 2015 The information required is your name, MYA number ,club, sail number, radio frequencies if not 2.4ghz. Please pass this notice onto those you know who might like to participate. If they have no Footy, we have some that may be borrowed; please ring Roger ASAP to avoid disappointment.
ABBEY MEADS LAKE is easy to find, so long as you follow these instructions and not any others. Follow the local brown signs to THORPE PARK and go to the roundabout at their entrance. From here travel south on the A320 towards Chertsey and Abbey Meads Lake is behind the hedge on your left. After a few hundred yards turn left off the road when you see a sign, RADIO SAILING, together with signs to the 3 Valleys Water’s Chertsey Treatment Works. If the gate is locked, unlock the brass number padlock marked GMYC with 1617 or ring the mobile number on the ‘GMYC welcome notice’ on the gate. Please replace the padlock as you found it. We look forward to seeing you
Click HERE to download the latest GAMES results
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