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DF95 Wednesday 19th October
A warm welcome to all DF95 sailors this Wednesday 19th October!
The Winter Series started well a month ago with 8 entries, so let’s do even better to enhance the entries and enjoy some more good racing and more fun. Encourage your friends and clubmates to come along. You know that this is a fine open water, with two control areas on different banks to allow setting of the very best courses for racing. Emphasise to your friends that access to these Control Areas allows cars to park within yards of the steps for dry-foot launching. You will always get a good welcome and our extensive expertise is offered to help you to set up your boat, giving tuition in setting your sails to the best trim and other technical advice etc.
Of the 8 events in this Winter Series, your best 4 results will count to decide the series and the prizes which will be awarded at the final event. In addition at every event planned, the leading visitor will win a ROF (Roger’s One gram Flag) which is specially designed to clip onto the backstay crane to help show wind variations. as Illustrated above. This is a really good piece of design for an essential tool for good sailing that you cannot buy from DF suppliers – you have to win it here!
We need to know that you are coming so you must contact Roger by phone (01483) 421801 or Martin on 07836 250261 the day before – i.e. Tuesday 18th October to confirm access information etc. The report & results of WWS 3 & more information about the club is available on www.guilldfordmyc.co.uk.
The next event 5 in the series is on Wednesday 2nd November
GMYC Teapot Trophy 08 October Cancelled
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled as a result of the lack of support.
Wednesday DF95 Winter Series – Event 3
Another fabulous morning at Abbey Meads Lake! The forecast was for 24 to 30 mph from the south south-west, which is straight down the lake and gave perfect conditions for the DF 95 in B rig. The gusts probably reached this strength on occasion, but there were also lulls and holes in the wind which was incredibly variable, particularly near the windward mark. So much so that without moving your rudder you could make a perfect tack and keep going in a straight line!
The off wind legs were very exciting with great bursts of speed, spray, bows submerged, rudders in the air, broaches etc. A lot of concentration was also needed on the beat to avoid getting head to wind. This was tricky because the wind could vary 30° or more in an instant, leaving your sails shaking and no speed to get back on course. We each found a way of dealing with this and Martin fared best initially with 3 straight wins and then except for the last race every result was a podium place, as can be seen from the score sheet below.
It was good to see Simon Johnson sailing at Abbey Meads and getting a couple of 2nd places. Roger’s BOTTLE boat looked a bit scary with the cantilevered 6 mm diameter mast bending a lot and whilst this flexibility helps the windward trim by opening up slot between jib and main, the 24-year-old carbon arrow shaft mast gave up under the downwind pressure and snapped at the bottom where it comes through the deck. Roger didn’t mind rowing the rubber dinghy against the fresh breeze to rescue it, as he had of good practice going out laying and collecting the marks and on quite a few occasions rescuing several different boats that had ‘strayed’ into the bushes. One thing about today was amazing and that was there were no patches of weed, in fact no weed visible at all, except a few bits pulled up with the buoy weights. While there a couple of patches a fortnight ago the lack of weed today was remarkable and bodes well for sailing Marbleheads on Saturday, so long as we get enough entries!!
Roger is very pleased to report that David got home safely after his drive back to Herefordshire. He is a very dedicated model yachtsman & Guildford member who puts to shame those who are local who don’t support events such as this.
WWS Report – 21 September 2022
When we arrived, the lake was like a mirror reflecting the clouds and trees in the background looking absolutely beautiful. Despite the apparent lack of wind the first boat launched sailed away OK, but there were big holes where making progress required the utmost concentration and a lot of patience. Mid-morning the forecast southerly wind actually started to come in gently from the south-east and at least created a reasonable windward leeward course. All 5 competitors found the racing frustrating as there was an element of luck needed to grasp that vestige of wind, but nearly all won one of the 8 races.
David Coode, who had travelled 2 1/2 hours from Herefordshire to Abbey Meads was pleased that his patience paid off allowing him to win the event with 4 wins. He said, “I released all the tension on the forestay and allowed the sail to respond to what little wind there was”.
The lake was quite sailable apart from two clumps of weed, which required the rescue boat to retrieve the DF and like fishing, bring aboard the ‘trawl’ of all of that isolated clump.
2022 BOTTLE boat Championship at Waldringfield
This event run at Waldringfield is not a Guildford club event, but was organised and run by Guildford members. Sailing BOTTLE boats on the tidal River Deben adds a new dimension to radio sailing and provided a great spectacle directly in front of the clubhouse. This was enjoyed by many spectators and the public, as well as all the radio sailors and particularly the younger members of the fleet, aged 6 and upwards. Prior to the event there was lots of informal junior sessions, learning to sail these boats and get advice about the basic rules and this showed in the sporting way in which they behaved. Whilst these are only some of the photographs taken by professional photographer Robert Deaves all of them can be seen on Facebook, Waldringfield Sailing Club, BOTTLE boat…
2022 BOTTLE boat Championship at Waldringfield
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News
Dear Members,
Once again we are getting to the end of our summer season, with 2 events before we close down for the August holiday period. The first is this Saturday, the Marblehead event for the Arcadia Trophy which we hope will get good support like last month’s Nicklin Trophy, when we had 10 boats sailing practising for the National Championship the following weekend. The club had 6 members competing in the Nationals, which must be another record! Congratulations to Peter for coming 2nd to Brad Gibson and CJ Vice in 11th, the only 2 in the top half. Martin, in particular would like this event to be well attended to put on a good show for someone new to radio sailing, who won Martin’s prize of a day radio sailing that he offered at his bowls club. The weather is continuing to be good so should be a good day at Abbey Meads. Please let me know whether you are coming or not.
The 2nd event is the final event of the Wednesday Summer Series which should be very exciting as any one of the top 4 as shown in the attached Summer Series results could win. This set of series is a great success building up our numbers. In the first winter series last year we started with events with 4 or 5 boats with a total of 10 taking part in the series, where as now there are 15 who sailed and an average close to 9 taking part. Let us hope that this continues and with Mike Wilkie’s helpful communication with Hampton Court DF 95 sailors who cannot sail because of weed we hope to expect more whilst this continues.
For those members who didn’t attend our 90th Anniversary there is the history booklet of GMYC and the Marblehead Class written for the anniversary event at the Mermaid Trophy and now extended in version 4 available from Roger. 10 of these were printed and given away as a prize to the top 10 In the National Championship.
What has given me great excitement this week is waiting for the results of the 5.5 metre World Championship in Hanko, Norway. My friend & designer colleague, Dave Hollom has used the example of my idea for the revolutionary CLOCKWORK ORANGE model A class, that I designed in 1971. This was to sacrifice sail area for a more easily driven lightweight bulb keeled hull, which now has come to fruition at full size level by the boat, Jean Genie GBR 42, winning both the Scandinavian Gold Cup and the World Championship in the final race last Tuesday. Neither of these events have been won by a British boat before, so it is quite a coup. The photographs of these 5.5 metre yachts are superb taken by Waldringfield Sailing Club OK sailor, Robert Deaves and are well worth a visit on the Sail-World website. In particular there are 2 short bits of video showing the boat surfing down the waves, one on a 5.5 metre Facebook page and another more or less at the end of the Day 2 Scandinavian Gold Cup video.
I look forward to seeing you at these coming events.
Cheers, Roger
Final 2021 Wednesday DF 95 Winter Series
Dear All,
It was good news today, although it started badly in very gloomy weather with only three competitors initially to set up the inflatable et cetera. However, not only did John Turnbull arrive, but also Richard Lucas from the RSW club, who had been sent the invite by RSW’s secretary Peter Kirby and even Peter himself came to watch and very kindly took the attached photographs of all the competitors and the presentations. Thank you Peter!
There are no photos of the sailing is it really was gloomy and the wind was very light fluky and frustrating. For a change Roger enjoyed these conditions and was a bit lucky to sail BOTTLE boat 2 to the front on more than one occasion. When we stopped for coffee we set up a table and Martin set out what we enjoyed at the Brass Monkey last Saturday, six glasses of mulled wine and mince pies and of course a bit more chat!
As usual the windward leeward course from the south bank with two beats and a run down to the gate was not exactly exciting sailing, but kept everyone on their toes and there were some very close finishes in some of the races. As the wind started to die close to the end of our sailing time we packed up early, repacked the tent, which had been drying in the clubhouse and locked up for the year.
Attached are Alan’s spreadsheet with the race results for WWS 6 and also ‘the series’ scores, which you can see benefited those who attended most and Roger in particular who was presented with the superb the copper sailed trophy, presented at the end of each series to the winner of the series. You will see the name on the bow of the boat that it came from Paris and maybe created by the famous sculptor or trophy maker. Looking at the series results is good to see that we attracted 10 competitors during the series and we all hope that this number can be increased when we run the three series on the same basis in Spring, Summer & Winter in 2022.
A very happy Christmas and New Year to you all, Roger
2021 Brass Monkey GAMES event at Abbey Meads
This annual Christmas event was again a great success with 15 starts for both Marblehead and the ‘small boat’ fleet with DF 95s and BOTTLE boats racing together.
A light southerly breeze blowing straight down the lake all day allowed a long windward leeward course, which gave good close racing in both fleets.
In the Marblehead fleet there were five different winners and in the opening race Rob Vice, sailing his modified UP, put down his challenge by winning it, with his son CJ sailing a GRUNGE second. In Race 2 CJ was second again, but this time to Peter Stollery sailing his UP. These two winners then won in alternate races until the pattern was broken by David Cole sailing a GRUNGE, winning Race 6 and then by CJ winning Races 7 & 9, only interrupted by Rob taking Race 8.
The Brass Monkey traditional lunch break included mulled wine and mince pies and lots of chat, before returning to racing 40 minutes later. The scores were close at the top of the lunchtime leaderboard with CJ scoring 18 points having had a very consistent morning, 1 point ahead of his dad and 6 points ahead of Peter. It was a different story in the ‘small boat’ fleet where Alan Viney dominated by winning all the morning races.
A win for CJ in Race 10 was followed by a win for Martin Crysell sailing a PRIME NUMBER. Young Oliver Stollery sailing his dad’s old UPROAR was delighted to have beaten him in those two races. However, this didn’t last and Peter won both Races 12 and 13 before letting Rob win Race 14 and Martin win the final race.
This event was good at bringing together youngsters from two model yachting families sailing against their dads. It was a real delight to welcome back CJ after a long break whilst studying and young Nathan, who hadn’t sailed for two and a half years, but still won Race 14 in the smaller fleet.
As this was the finale of the 2021 GAMES there was absolutely no doubt about the winner of the Midgley Mug Trophy, as by winning this event Rob had also won the series by a clear margin of 81 points from Peter. At the presentation Rob thanked the Guildford team of Roger and Judith for running the event, which he said was “clearly enjoyed by everyone.”
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Marblehead results
1st Rob Vice Guildford UP 24 points,
Winner of the Brass Monkey & Midgley Mug
2nd CJ Vice Guildford GRUNGE 31
3rd Peter Stollery Guildford UP 38
4th Martin Crysell Guildford PRIME NUMBER 52
5th David Cole Hampton Court GRUNGE 57
6th Oliver Stollery Guildford UPROAR 66
7th Graham Hetem Datchet QUARK 73
8th Charles Wand Tetley Guildford UPROAR 92
Small boat results
1st Alan Viney Guildford DF95 14,
Winner of the Brass Monkey for DFs
2nd Leen Buurman Hampton Court DF95 29
3rd John Turnbull Woking DF95 36
4th Nathan Stollery Guildford BOTTLE boat 56,
Winner of the Brass Monkey for BOTTLE boats
5th Keith Parrott Frensham RSG BOTTLE boat 7
Event 5 of the DF95 Winter Series 1st December
6 competitors arrived for this event in good weather for December and a reasonable breeze from the WNW although it did tend to swirl around quite a bit .
We laid a windward leeward course with a gate at the leeward end.
There was some extremely close racing with no less than 5 different race winners out of the 12 races that we sailed.
However it was Les Thorn that mastered the gusts and changes of wind direction best of all to win the day with a total of 5 wins.
This now puts Les near the top of the leaderboard alongside 4 other skippers who are intending to sail in the last of the series on the 15th December. This promises to be a mouth watering event to see who will be the overall series winner.
All of the competitors are also wanting to sail in the forthcoming Brass Monkey event on the 11th December to get in more practice of the challenging Abbey Meads conditions.
BRING IT ON