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GMYC Membership Renewals Now Due

Message from our Treasurer Martin Crysell

Dear All,

Membership renewals are now due the costs are as follows:

Full membership with MYA affiliation £42:00

Full membership without affiliation £28:00

Junior membership £7:00

Payment methods which are either: send a cheque to my address,

8 Meadow Lane

Fetcham

Surrey

KT229UW

or you can pay directly to the bank (put your name as the reference)

Lloyds Bank

Sort Code: 30-18-45

Account No: 00024868

Name: Guildford Model Yacht Club

Incidentally if you are getting affiliation via another club, our fee reduces by £14:00 to £28:00.

All renewals are needed in by 12^th January at the latest.

Many thanks and a happy Christmas to all.

Martin

By Mark|2017-12-20T15:28:44+00:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Membership|Comments Off

BRASS MONKEY & GAMES 9 on 10 December 2017

The weather lived up to the name of the event and this Marblehead event was sailed at GMYC’s Abbey Meads Lake in atrocious freezing conditions that were not forecast. Instead of small amounts of rain and 20 to 40 mph westerly winds there was continual rain, sleet or snow and very little wind from almost every direction.The heavy snowfall further north prevented Phil Holliday from setting out from home, but did not prevent Alf Reynolds and David Croom getting to Abbey Meads through the snow in Kent.

This did not put off the Guildford team, who erected two linked gazebos close to the edge of the southern bank to act as part of the control area for protection from the worst downpours. A ring of specially laid marks allowed windward legs to match the wind variation at some point around the course.

Rob Vice, who had upgraded his UPROAR with a new Robot keel and new bulb, set the pace to win Race 1 from Roger Stollery’s UPROAR. He won again in Race 2 from Martin Crysell sailing a PRIME NUMBER. Then it was the turn of Peter Stollery to win from Roger, who then won Race 4. After another 2 races won by Rob and Roger there was a welcome break for lunch with the hot mulled wine, sausage rolls and mince pies helping to warm the frozen fingers to thaw out.

As it began to snow harder, all agreed to do another couple of races to end the madness and thaw and dry out properly on the way home. This was a wise decision as it was becoming difficult to see the boats through the blizzard conditions in the final race.

As is traditional for this Christmas event, the prize-giving consisted of selecting by the order of finishing places, a wrapped prize, which was the entry fee. As this was the finale of the GAMES’ events it was hoped to present the Midgley Memorial Mug to the winner, but the cold and wet was not conducive to doing the necessary calculations. The top 3 are shown below.

The Marblehead events for 2018 are already on the Guildford Model Yacht Club website at www.guildfordmyc.co.uk

BRASS MONKEY Results:

1st Rob Vice Clapham UPROAR 11

2nd Peter Stollery Guildford UPROAR 11

3rd Roger Stollery Guildford UPROAR 12

4th Martin Crysell Guildford PRIME NUMBER 19

5th Alan Viney Guildford PRIME NUMBER 27

6th Les Thorn Hawley Lake PARADOX 31

7th Alf Reynolds Chelmsford PARADOX 33

8th Keith Bullard Guildford ABEL’S 41

9th David Croom Chelmsford STARKERS 49

GAMES results –

1st Peter Stollery 378.9

2nd Rob Vice 348.8

3rd Roger Stollery 336.5

By Mark|2017-12-13T21:22:59+00:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Games|Comments Off

Many Congratulations Roger Stollery!!

Many Congratulations go to our very own Guildford member and polymath of the radio sailing world, Roger Stollery on being awarded Both the Chris Dicks and Syan awards. Roger has recently resigned from heading up the MYA Tech team, which is a great loss for UK radio yachting, so these awards are well deserved and long overdue. We wish Roger well and hope he enjoys the extra me time! although we suspect he will soon fill the time with new projects.

The Syan Award This year Roger has made a major contribution to the administration of the MYA, by his work with the Tech Team, the Racing Regulations Team and Vane Regulations Team.

There are over a dozen documents on the MYA website, which Roger has either led or made a big contribution to, including the SSIs, National Championship Regulations, Ranking Regulations, Sail ID and the Free Sailing Yacht Racing Rules.

The MYA IOM Certification Control and checklists have been updated to relate to the latest IOMICA rule changes.

The Six Metre and 36″ class rules have been updated, revised and rewritten along with the Free Sailing Class Rule Supplement.

2017 marked 29 years service on the MYA Council with 14 years as publicity officer from 1967 and 15 years as Technical Officer.

The Chris Dicks Award Roger’s innovative designs have contributed to many features that members have on their current boats. He was the architect for the 1960s design revolution introducing bulb keels, light displacement, simple 2 part GRP moulded hull construction, wing masts, double luff sails, mylar sails, an ergonomic easily made vane gear, displacement penalty lightweight A class.

With radio he introduced una rigs, removable cassette radio gear, wire mast rings, the swing rig, kevlar hulls, carbon spars, hulls and fins, the BOTTLE boat, which was awarded a Millennium Products award by the Design Council.

Currently his designs still rate with the best and win Footy and Marblehead events.

He is experimenting with offset pivot swing rigs for smaller suits where the mast is mounted on a rotating bracket and not attached directly to the hull.

"Syan Award - Chis Dicks Award - Guildford Model Yacht Club - Roger Stolley - National Awards - Tech Team"

MYA National Awards

His designs feature simplicity in both concept and manufacture, whether it is a stainless steel wire bowsie or a Dyneema line mast ring. His boats are beautifully balanced, easy to sail and have given pleasure to a great many owners.

By Mark|2017-12-10T15:40:20+00:00December 9th, 2017|Categories: News|Comments Off

NoR GAMES 9 FINALE & Brass Monkey Trophy Christmas Race on Sunday 10th December 2017

Notice of Race for GAMES 9 FINALE and the Brass Monkey Trophy Christmas Race on Sunday 10^th December 2017

We extend a very warm welcome to you to come and have some competitive fun at our Christmas Open meeting for Marbleheads and BOTTLE boats. We hope that you will come and enjoy racing in a relaxed mode at Abbey Meads Lake, Chertsey to get you into the party mood. This is very much a fun event, with festive dress for self/boat anticipated! As usual, we will be stopping for lunch when mince pies and mulled wine will be served. We do hope that you will come and join the party.

This year the event is the finale of the 2017 GAMES Marblehead series with the MIDGLEY MUG, Improver’s and Junior Prizes to be awarded. There is all to sail for because there are four competitors who could win the GAMES. See the latest updated GAMES schedule copied with this NoR.

Following GMYC tradition there will be no normal financial entry fee. Instead, please bring a wrapped present containing something that you might like to win!

The racing will be organised for Marbleheads and BOTTLE boats starting on the same countdown, but at different times. BOTTLE boats will have a course handicap and will be competing in their own event.

For those of you who have not been before, you will find ABBEY MEADS Lake easily. From whatever direction you are travelling, follow the 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 after you see a sign, RADIO SAILING. If you arrive late and the inner gate is locked, put 1617 into the black GMYC number padlock to open and just slide the horizontal bar back to open and replace after entry. Please print this NoR and refer to it when you are at the gate.

The racing will be conducted using the RRS 2017-2020 modified by the MYA SSIs. The relevant notices are as follows: 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 15.20 hours will be abandoned.

The closing date for entries for the event is midnight on Thursday 7^th December 2017. Please ring Roger with your entry on 01483 421 801 or e-mail him on stollery17@sky.com and include your MYA number. If there is more than one boat entered with the same sail number, we will inform you prior to the event as to the prefix or the modification of your number. If you don’t have a Marblehead or BOTTLE boat, but would like to come for a bit of fun, please ask Roger to borrow a boat.

We look forward to seeing you!

By Mark|2017-11-28T07:58:48+00:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Games, Sailing|Comments Off

2017 BOTTLE boat Championship

Plenty of wind and sun gave 16 competitors a spectacular day’s racing for BOTTLE boats on the river Deben at Waldringfield Sailing Club. With the southerly wind against the ebb tide there was spray everywhere, generated by the speed on the offwind legs with the powerful bottle & plastic cup bows planing through the waves.

After the first few races nearly all these unusual one-designs changed into their small swing rigs to improve their tacking and manoeuvrability, whilst still producing fantastic speeds off the wind.

Everyone enjoyed this, particularly one quarter of the fleet, who were aged between 4 and 10 years old and yet coped well with a little parental help at times, changing batteries, rigs and mending these simple boats, which are mostly made from recycled materials.

After a group photo, the racing began around the simple windward leeward course parallel to the beach. Initially against the southerly wind and the top of the flood tide, this gave almost perfect conditions, which got even better when the tide turned. This spectacle was greatly enjoyed by many family supporters, club members and villagers, who always love to watch this event.

The morning racing

The first two races were won by Graham Viney followed by Mike Pert and Bernard Kufluk all in big rigs. In Race 3 which was won by the latter, Keith Parrott was the first to appreciate the strength of the increasing wind and changed to his small rig. This immediately allowed him to improve his usual finishing position to gain 5^th place. It gave him an even better performance in Race 4 when he came 2^nd ahead of the overpowered big rig powered boats that were showing their rudders in the air in the strongest gusts. Even more delighted was seven-year-old Oliver Stollery, who won the race after also having his rig changed.

The last race before lunch saw Alan Viney get a win, still in his big rig and absolutely flying downwind. In second place was Rob Vice, who had been struggling all morning to get his boat going during these initial races.

The barbecue The competitors and the new WSC members were treated to a barbecue laid on by Kim Mayhew and time to mend broken gear, change rigs and get ready before the afternoon racing. Graham headed the lunchtime leaderboard with 11 from Mike 12 and Bernard 14 points.

The afternoon racing

Wayfarer sailor, Mike came out strongly to win Race 6 followed by Marblehead sailor, Rob and Keith Parrott. Bernard took Race 7 and then allowed Rob to collect a string of four first places only interrupted by Mike winning Race 10. Mike also won Races 13, 14 and 16, but allowed Bernard to take Race 15. In these last races there were more juniors sailing than grown-ups! The Championship was all down to the last race, as Bernard only had to come 3^rd to beat Mike. However he sailed into a well publicised mooring line that dropped him down to 5^th, whilst Mike finished first ahead of the two boys, Oliver and Arthur.

The prizegiving

WSC Commodore, Bob Whitehouse gave away the Junior Championship prizes first, with Oliver with 61 points taking the junior BOTTLE trophy. Second was Arthur Sturmer with 79 points, his brother William 120 and fourth Nathan Stollery with 180.

Mike took the main BOTTLE trophy with 30 points, with Bernard second with 31 and Graham third with 47. Remarkably, two youngsters took the next two places with Oliver fourth and Arthur fifth.

Mike thanked the race team, which included Sarah Stollery in the rescue boat and scorer Linda

Stollery and particularly Roger for having created the idea, designed and built the boats, organised the event and run the event on the day!

For a film of some of the action see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfV8MYR9NZY

Results:

1^st Mike Pert, WSC 30,

2^nd Bernard Kufluk WSC 31,

3^rd Graham Viney Guildford 47,

4^th Oliver Stollery (J) Guildford 61,

5^th Arthur Sturmer (J) WSC 79,

6^th Rob Vice Clapham 90,

7^th Alan Viney Guildford 101,

8^th Keith Parrott Frensham Pond 102,

9^th William Sturmer (J) WSC 120,

10^th Graham Whitehead Frensham Pond 158,

11^th Steve Hill Frensham Pond 171,

12^th Howard Fraser WSC 171,

13^th Nathan Stollery (J) Guildford 180,

14^th John Fish WSC 192,

15^th Noel Fraser WSC 193,

16^th Matthew Lake WSC 213

By Mark|2017-11-28T17:53:12+00:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Sailing|Comments Off

2017 Stan Cleal Trophy – Marblehead GAMES 8

The furthest travelled competitor, Bill Culshaw from Shropshire, sailing a GRUNGE, won this event with seven wins from the two UPROARS that were successful last week at the Mermaid.

Three Rivers RYC’s wasted no time and gave competitors 15 races, an amazing number considering the start in no wind and very little during the day, with the constantly varying wind coming from every direction from south-west to north-east and creating a constantly course setting headache for Race Officer, Peter Popham and his team.

As well as the wind problem, the water level was low and so launching was sometimes difficult for deeper keeled Marbleheads, which grounded just out of reach of the launching area. This problem was aggravated because after every race most boats had to come ashore to check for weed, as just small strands were picked up by everyone in the majority of races.

Despite the problems everyone enjoyed the event, which started by a win for David Adam sailing a PRIME NUMBER from Rob Vice’s UPROAR. Races 2 & 3 were won by Roger Stollery sailing his UPROAR from Rob and Bill Culshaw. David came back to take Race 4 from the consistent Rob again. Bill, with some good starts found his form to win three races on the trot from Roger, Martin Crysell sailing a PRIME NUMBER and John Carter sailing a ROK.

At the brief lunch interval Bill was top of the leaderboard with 12 points followed by Roger with 17 and Rob with 18.

There was a little bit more wind after lunch, but still very variable allowing Roger to make a perfect port tack start as the wind backed during the start sequence and lead to the finish in front of Rob and Martin. Bill took Race 9 from the consistent Rob.

In Race 10 there was an amazing 90° wind shift allowed the leading boats to change tack without any change in their course and without any rudder movement! Roger won from David and Bill. At last Rob’s consistency paid off with a win in Race 11 from Bill and Alf Reynolds sailing a 25 year old upgraded PARADOX with a fancy bow, a permanent version of his usual parcel tape construction, and the hull painted in camouflage colours.

Bill succeeded in avoiding any weed to win the next three races, maybe by following pretty well exactly the same course each time. Finally, Roger won the last Race 15 from Martin and Alf.

At the prize giving Peter Popham thanked competitors for making his job easy as there were no raised voices, no protests and the sailing was very much more gentlemanly than the IOM racing he is used to. The winner of the Stan Cleal Trophy, Bill, thanked Peter for running a good event in difficult circumstances. Runner-up Roger reinforced Bill’s thanks to the 3R team of John Male, John Rance and Tom Roger.

This event was the penultimate Marblehead GAMES event and the finale will be at Guildford Model Yacht Club for the BRASS MONKEY event on 10th December.

Results:

1st Bill Culshaw Birkenhead GRUNGE 25

2nd Roger Stollery Guildford UPROAR 40

3rd Rob Vice Clapham UPROAR 42

4th David Adam Woking PRIME NUMBER 57

5th Martin Crysell Guildford PRIME NUMBER 58

6th Alf Reynolds Chelmsford PARADOX 78

7th Terry Rensch Datchet QUARK 80

8th John Carter 3 Rivers ROK 87

9th John Shorrock Datchet QUARK 2 108

10th David Croom Chelmsford STARKERS 114

11th Max Lenbke 3 Rivers PJ2 114

By Mark|2018-11-21T21:20:03+00:00November 21st, 2017|Categories: Games|Comments Off

2017 MERMAID Trophy
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2017 MERMAID Trophy

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2017 MERMAID Trophy

There was uproar at Guildford Model Yacht Club’s water at Abbey Meads for this annual open Marblehead event. No outlandish behaviour though, just two boats to that design going fast!

13 races were sailed in a limit ‘A’ rig wind blowing from the north north-west, not blowing quite straight down the lake, but a little over the left shoulder. This gusty and variable wind direction set a challenge for the 12 competitors from six clubs to pick the right shifts to windward and to search for the best wind and shifts on the run of the windward/leeward course. There was plenty of fast planing on the run, which made for an exciting spectacle, which everyone enjoyed along with the sunny, but cold conditions.

After the group photo, the fleet was well spread out in Race 1, as competitors tried to get the hang of the wind conditions. Peter Stollery and Rob Vice, sailing different configurations of their UPROARs immediately made their mark with a one-two finish. They didn’t have it their own way and in Race 2 John Shorrock sailing his new QUARK 2 took the honours.

The 11 o’clock two-minute silence was observed to honour those who gave their lives for our freedom.

John was still with the leading boats in Race 3 and finished third behind Peter and Rob, who gained most by searching for the gusts on the far side of the lake and tacking downwind to make great gains on the run.

In Race 4 Alan Viney sailing a PRIME NUMBER made a good start and headed for the strongest winds on the far side of the lake to get to the windward mark first, but was overtaken on the run by Rob, and David Adam sailing another PRIME NUMBER. On the second downwind leg there was close racing at speed between Peter and Rob, who got to the gate first, but was passed by Peter close to the finishing line.

In Race 5 Rob led to the windward mark closely followed by Phil Holliday sailing his newly acquired French NIOUTRAM, with a beautiful Remi Bres swing rig, with Peter some way behind in fourth. However on the run he passed both of them giving a master demonstration of tacking downwind into the strongest gusts to take the lead and hold it to the finish.

The gusts were getting stronger at this point, which made tacking more difficult and manoeuvring less predictable. In Race 6 there was a collision with a loud crack and an entanglement between Alan and Roy Pearson’s ROK. RO, Roger Stollery sensed that Roy’s boat was sinking and rowed flat out to reach the boats just in time. However by the time that the water had been drained out of the ROK, the rescue boat had drifted into the trees at the leeward end of the lake and any progress rowing out of the branches against the wind was very slow. A huge hole amidships put an end to Roy’s racing, but he stayed on to observe. Peter won this race by staying on the rhumb line to make the best of the shifts in the more moderate wind in the centre of the lake.

Predicting the stronger winds Peter and Nick Royse changed to ‘B’ rigs for Race 7. Martin Crysell sailing a PRIME NUMBER was first at the windward mark followed by Phil and Peter. They stayed on the rhumb line on the run, but Rob romped away by tacking downwind and planing to the leeward gate to win from Peter and Phil.

At the break for lunch, Peter was at the top of the leaderboard with 7 points ahead of Rob with 13 and John 22.

The next three races were a familiar story with Peter and Rob dominating with the third places being David in Race 8 and John in the other two races. David sailed well in Race 11, leading from start to finish from Nick Royse initially, sailing his CRAZY TUBE FREE and then Phil and Peter.

David let Peter win Race 12, but finished second and in the final Race 13 it was the predictable result from the pair of UPROARs.

At the prize giving Peter thanked the RO and ARO, Keith Parrott for running another good Mermaid, which was much enjoyed by everyone, including new member Keith Bullard who was delighted to go away with the last prize, which is traditional at GMYC events to encourage the fleet, without which there would be no winners.

Roger Stollery announced a new initiative for the Guildford club, who are offering free ALE on Wednesday afternoons in the summer to attract new members to this fantastic radio sailing lake. The details are on the GMYC website www.guildfordmyc.co.uk.

RESULTS:

1st Peter Stollery Guildford UPROAR 12

2nd Rob Vice Clapham UPROAR 25

3rd David Adam Woking PRIME NUMBER 41

4th John Shorrock Datchet QUARK 2 43

5th Phil Holliday Datchet NIOUTRAM 47

6th Martin Crysell Guildford PRIME NUMBER 57

7th Alan Viney Guildford PRIME NUMBER 70

8th Les Thorn Hawley Lake PARADOX 71

9th Nick Royse Frensham Pond CRAZY TUBE FREE 88

10th Keith Bullard Guildford TONY ABEL’S 100

11th Roy Pearson Guildford ROK 121

12th Peter Dunne Guildford STARKERS 127

Winner of the Vic Cooney Trophy and best improver, David Adam.

Report by Roger Srollery 2017-11-13

By Mark|2017-11-21T00:06:42+00:00November 17th, 2017|Categories: Sailing|Comments Off

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By Billy|2018-09-17T18:03:08+01:00September 17th, 2017|Categories: Games|Comments Off

Marblehead Nationals 2017 – Results

This was a fantastic event. Not only did the wind blow straight down the lake for most of the three days, but the 48 boat entry, including 13 competitors from overseas, was of a very high standard. Many of the top boats and skippers from last year’s Marblehead World Championship at Lake Garda travelled to the exposed Lancashire coast to compete on probably the best lake in the world for more top-class radio racing. Racing started on Friday and allowed 18, three heat races to be sailed with two or three lap courses using the whole length of the 250 metre lake for the simple windward leeward courses.

Friday
An 6 to 14 mph wind greeted competitors allowing B or C rigs to be used and generating some spectacular downwind speeds, which gave some competitors a problem keeping up with these speed machines. The racing was dominated by Brad Gibson, who was taking a break from his foiling Moth sailing and returning to radio race his GRUNGE design with his usual finesse. Other skippers enjoying the conditions and getting podium positions were Martin Roberts sailing his elderly, but still very quick pink STARKERS, Tony Edwards, also with a GRUNGE, Matteo Longhi from Italy sailing a NIOUTRAM and Graham Bantock sailing his QUARK design.

Saturday
Light and more variable conditions coming off the sea created a problem for Race Officer, Derek Priestley, who was forced to create a zigzag course up the 70 metre wide lake. Aided by Peter and Judith Baldwin they called for an early lunch as the wind was dying, which was a good call as after lunch the wind came straight down the middle again and gave some good light airs racing in A rig.

In the morning it was Brad Gibson who once again won every race, but in the afternoon James Edwards won Race 10 with his GRUNGE, with Frenchman Arnaud Toureau sailing a SISCO taking Race 11 and Martin Roberts winning Race 12.
After racing had finished a team race using DF one designs it was organised and was followed by a Lancashire fish and chip supper in the clubhouse, followed by a quiz and a good time was had by all.

Sunday
The RO and race team were delighted that the wind was another north-westerly straight down the lake between 8 and 10 miles an hour, giving perfect A rig conditions. Graham Bantock got his only win of the event in Race 13, but then let Brad Gibson take all the remaining races, except the penultimate Race 17, which was won by Frenchman, Gilles di Crescenzo sailing another SISCO design.

This was another amazing performance by Brad and his GRUNGE, scoring under one third of the points of second placed Martin Roberts, whose performance was also remarkable and very encouraging for club sailors, as he was racing his elderly pink STARKERS, which is still available from designer/builder Dave Creed. He was squeezed between Brad and the two GRUNGEs of Darin Ballington and Tony Edwards, who finished ahead of the Italian, Matteo Longhi.

Boats

There was a great deal of variety in the 17 designs racing, but the common factor in the light airs was the use of the swing rig, for all except four competitors. The most interesting design was ROCKET from the board of young designer/builder Mike Cooke because of its wave piercing ‘dreadnought’ bow and neutral T foil on the bottom of the rudder to keep the boat stable when pressed hard.. Whilst there was insufficient wind to demonstrate the boat’s ability Mike will be developing more designs to improve the breed. Already there is a phenomenal standard of boat and equipment and this made the racing very close indeed, wherever you were in the fleet.

Prize-giving

Brad Gibson thanked Derek and his race team for creating a great event and also Maureen Priestley whose team of friendly helpers behind the bar kept competitors fed and watered throughout the event. Competitors not sailing in the 10 racing National Championship which followed were pleased to stop racing which on this lake is quite physical, as in following your boat up and down the lake you will be walking or running at least 10 kilometres a day!

Results of the top 10

1^st Brad Gibson Birkenhead GRUNGE 17

2^nd Martin Roberts Birkenhead STARKERS 58.5

3^rd Darin Ballington Manor Park GRUNGE 81

4^th Tony Edwards Yeovil GRUNGE 84

5^th Matteo Longhi NW Garda ITA NIOUTRAM 96

6^th Graham Bantock Chelmsford QUARK 101

7^th Peter Stollery Guildford UPROAR 103

8^th Gilles di Crescenzo FRA SISCO 111

9^th Colin Goodman Coalhouse Fort QUARK 112

10^th James Edwards Yeovil GRUNGE 121

Roger Stollery 2017-07-14

By Billy|2017-07-19T17:23:06+01:00July 19th, 2017|Categories: Games|Comments Off

M&S District Marblehead Championship and GAMES 4

A fantastic day’s racing with 17 races was enjoyed by all 16 competitors from 10 clubs at Guildford’s Abbey Meads lake, despite tricky wind conditions. 8 races were sailed in the sunny morning with variable west south-westerly winds. There were five different winners and some of the finishes were very close indeed, but Colin Goodman dominated the racing with three wins to head the lunchtime leaderboard, five points clear of Peter Stollery, who was seven points clear of Vinnie Zammit.

The wind, which was forecast to become more southerly during mid-morning changed during Race 9, which was won by Austin Guerrier sailing New Zealander’s Ian Vickers V1M design. All competitors and their cars moved to the western control area, where the southerly wind was steadier and stronger, but still within the A rig strength. There were plenty of fast planing runs down to the leeward gate in the strongest gust zones. However it was still variable in direction requiring great skill to pick the right shifts both up and down wind. Colin, who had been starting well in every race won Races 10 and 11, but let Peter win Race 12 and then came back to win Race 13 and to stamp his authority on the event with another win in Race 16. John Shorrock sailing his QUARK won both Races 14 and 15, but left Peter to win the final Race 17. This event win extends Colin’s lead at the top of the GAMES table by 20 points, from Hugh McAdoo and John Shorrock.

The furthest travelled competitor, Vinnie Zammit, from Norwich was sailing his ‘Think Pink’ STARKERS very consistently and finished with a string of fourth places to take the final podium slot from Hugh McAdoo, who was six points behind. It was good to see three new competitors to this year’s GAMES events, Keith Evans sailing a PRIME NUMBER, Peter Dunne sailing a STARKERS and Peter North sailing a JIVE showing good support from club sailors for the Marblehead class at district level.

It was also good to see Les Thorn doing really well with his PARADOX, showing that you don’t have to have the latest designs to be competitive in this class.

At the prize-giving Colin thanked the Guildford team running another good event. This was truly a district effort with Keith Parrott and Graham Whitehead from Frensham Pond MYG providing essential RO support. The next GAMES interclub/open events are the 23^rd July, again at Abbey Meads and then at Datchet on 24 September, as noted on the GMYC website, www.guildfordmyc.co.uk.

Results:

1^st Colin Goodman Coalhouse Fort QUARK 25

2^nd Peter Stollery Guildford UPROAR 39

3^rd Vinnie Zammit Norwich STARKERS CUBED 53

4^thHugh McAdoo Datchet PRIME NUMBER 59

5^th Trevor Binks Eastbourne PRIME NUMBER 62

6^th John Shorrock Datchet QUARK 63

7^th Martin Crysell Guildford PRIME NUMBER 94

8^th Austin Guerrier Datchet V1 RM 97

9^th Dick Jobbins Solent CONSTERNATION 2 99

10^th Les Thorn Datchet PARADOX 106

11^th Nick Royse Frensham CRAZY TUBE FREE 130

12^th John Bennett Eastleigh STARKERS CUBED 148

13^th Keith Evans Woking PRIME NUMBER 164

14^th John Townsend Guildford UPROAR 169

15^th Peter Dunne Woking STARKERS CUBED 192

16^th Peter North Woking JIVE 193

By Mark|2017-06-09T22:18:09+01:00June 9th, 2017|Categories: Games|Comments Off