5 Skippers turned out this morning in fortunately the driest morning of the week, to contest the first of the DF spring series events.
Luckily there was enough west in the wind for us to be able to set a course and use the south bank (the west bank is VERY muddy at the moment) .We set a course with a longish start line and then used each of the two start line buoys as part of the course which put us more into the Center of the lake and gave a much better beat to the windward mark, although the wind was incredibly gusty and changeable in direction, sometimes the boats would tack completely on their own.
We all started in B rigs and stayed in these all day except for Mike who change into top rig during the coffee break and this did give him a bit of an advantage specially in the lulls and helped to give him 3 wins in the day.
We sailed 9 races which overall produced 3 different winners but it was Barrie who sailed well and got the win by one point.
We stopped sailing just after 1pm as the clouds thickened, our timing turned out to be spot on as ten minutes later the heavens opened.
Final Results:
1st Barrie Martin 11points
2nd Martin Crysell 12 points
3rd Mike Wilkie 14 points
4th John Turnbull 23 points
5th Slieve McGalliard 34 points
Don’t forget next race is 25th Jan. Get your entries to Roger by 24th.
Martin Crysell
