ICICLE Trophy Sunday 28th February Cancelled
Unfortunately the Icicle Trophy has had to be cancelled for this Sunday 28 February.
Kindest regards
Roger
M&S Marblehead District Team Championships Notice of Race Saturday 20th February 2016
Guildford Model Yacht Club is hosting this event and extends a warm welcome to all Marblehead sailors. Clubs are invited to send teams of three skippers to compete in the most exciting form of racing. Don’t worry if your club cannot form a team of three as we will accept single entries and form some ‘special’ teams, which has worked very well in the past. If you don’t have a Marblehead and would like to try sailing one of these marvellous boats, you may be able to borrow a competitive boat to race.
Racing will be carried out using Appendix D – Team Racing Rules suitably modified for radio racing, with the removal of reference to umpires etc. The special sailing instructions will be available on the day. The initial briefing will be at 09.45 for a 10.00 start of racing. The event is organised on a schedule and the number of rounds and sailing times will depend on the number of entries etc. As only two teams will be on the water at once, we would ask that teams share the officiating tasks, observing etc in turn, as part of the schedule. Please enter by phoning Roger Stollery on 01483 421 801, or by e-mailing stollery17@sky.com before midnight on Wednesday 18th February. The entry fee will be £5 per boat.
For those that have not experienced three boat team racing it is great fun, all about teamwork. Winning is not necessarily about who is in front, but in tight exciting battles in the centre and rear of the fleet. Sometimes not to finish last is to win the race for your team!
For those of you who have not been before, you will find Guildford MYC’s 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 brass GMYC number padlock to open and just slide the horizontal bar back to open and replace after entry.
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 will be providing a toilet tent and there will be access to lots of bushes! If the weather is wet, there will be shelter etc in our gazebo. 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
too the ground may be muddy. We look forward to seeing you!
Fred’s Big Toephy event for Footys at Guildford – 7th February 2016
To the delight of the competitors who had travelled from the Midland and Southwest districts, the midweek forecast of doom, gloom, rain and gales was replaced by warm sunshine, a moderate SSW wind not far off straight down the lake.
PRO, Martin Crysell set a simple windward leeward one lap course that was great fun and much enjoyed by 9 competitors who sailed 16 races, at which point 3 race scores could be discarded. Discards were appreciated because during the day the wind started to blow more from behind the control area leaving big holes in the wind between the very strong gusts where poor results were easy to achieve!
First on the podium was Peter Shepherd with his FAT BOY, chased over the line by Mike Ewart sailing one of the 6 ICE designs in the fleet. After a really bad race, as a result of poor preparation, Rob Vice improved his trim and concentration to win Race 2 from John Burgoine. Peter Shepherd came back to win Race 3 from Roger Stollery sailing his SUPABUG design. Mike Ewart came good in Race 4, beating Rob into 2nd place who then went on to win Race 5 easily from Peter Shepherd, who scored his 3rd win in Race 6.
The wind was beginning to get stronger and some boats changed down to a lower rig to cope with the strong gusts when going downwind. The battle of the ICE’s in Race 7 was won by Mike Ewart from Rob, who went on to win the next race. David Wilkinson who was sailing his new ICE for the first time got the best out of it to win Race 9 and a 2nd in Race 10 to Peter, who got a great start and pulled right away from the fleet.
At the lunchtime break with a couple of discards, Peter was at the top of the leaderboard with 15, closely followed by Rob with 16 and Mike with 22 points.
For the afternoon racing, Martin Crysell extended the course by adding another half lap to finish on the run. The gusts were coming more from behind the control area and swirling eddies required lots of concentration to keep these superlight boats sailing in a straight line. Rob resolved to tack less often in the afternoon and this paid off with 3 wins and a 2nd, each time beating Peter to the finishing line. John Burgoine was having a problem with his radio gear and Rob kindly lent him his and some of Rob’s magic rubbed off, as John went on to win the last race in fine style from Mike Ewart. He was delighted!
The prizewinners thanked Martin and assistant race officer John Townsend for running another good Footy event. The Footy class give a special NovICE trophy to the best competitor who has not achieved a podium place in the Footy open meeting series. Relatively new Footy enthusiast, John Burgoine was delighted to get his engraved stainless steel NovICE trophy.
The next event in the Open Footy series will be the ‘MAD MARCH HARE’ at Woodspring on 13th March, with other events shown on the Footy website www.sailfootyuk.com .
Results:
1st Rob Vice Clapham ICE 23, 2nd Peter Shepherd Abington Park FAT BOY 28, 3rd Mike Ewart Two Islands ICE 35, 4th Roger Stollery Guildford SUPABUG 49, 5th Peter Jackson Abington Park F PLAN 58.7, 6th John Burgoine Birmingham ICE 59, 7th David Wilkinson Cotswold ICE 62, 8th Keith Parrott Frensham Pond ICE 86, 9th Peter Dunne Guildford ICE 105.
DON FOWLER
An appreciation by Roger Stollery
As some of you know already Don died on 6th November 2015 after a long illness. He joined Guildford Model Yacht Club in 1978 and immediately became involved in its organisation. With his father-in-law George Hull he helped to create a huge amount of enthusiasm for our club and racing at our various lakes in the 1980s and 1990s; Willow Park, Coleford Bridge and finally at Abbey Meads in 1994.
This enthusiasm to improve our club racing led Don to create the club handicap system that we still use today to encourage members to improve their boat and/or their racing performance. As a result the best club trophies go to lots of different homes and give encouragement to those lower down the list. It is a great success and has been adopted by various clubs including Hampton Court and Gosport, which have had the same good experience. Don’s idea is now the basis for the Club Performance Improvement competition, part of a new 2016 MYA National Radio League: a very fitting legacy.
Don was more often than not involved in assisting the organisation and running of the major GMYC events. He held several posts in the club including being the newsletter editor, but what he loved most was being the Sailing Captain – organising the logistics for the event, getting the gear ready, laying the course etc and most importantly recording scores. He was very generous with his time and invited the club committee to his house in South Street, Farnborough for meetings. The club used to have several social events and along with others Don was always doing the cooking. He helped to set up the evening meetings at the Victoria Halls, Ash which had the effect of improving the club’s standard of racing. As well as acting as a guru on radio control equipment, he was very good at creating quizzes for those meetings and for the bimonthly newsletters to which he regularly contributed by reporting on a large number of club races.
Don loved his sailing and whilst trying hard didn’t mind where he finished, often somewhere in the middle of the fleet. Looking back on the records his best result was to finish 2nd in an August club race in 1988 only beaten by a Swedish member, Lars Andren. In one of his last sails at Abbey Meads he finished 9th out of 15 in the 2003 Veteran’s Nationals. However, there was one element of sailing that he was very good at and that was starting; he was always on the line at the gun and argued that this was the only time he could guarantee to be in the lead!
Finally, to sum up Don’s careful approach, his daughter Sarah sent me the following email:
“In tidying up some of Dad’s bits I have found a trophy he must have won with a note on it to “return to GMYC”; now the note on it says it was won in 1996, so twenty years later we were wondering if we could finally return it on his behalf! It is so Dad, nicely boxed up, all clearly labelled, yet still not returned, that it made me laugh out loud when I found it. I feel now it is my duty to finish the task he started all those years ago!”
GAMES 4 for the Canada Cup
Tony Edwards sailed his upgraded PARADOX very consistently to win this magnificent silver trophy engraved with winners going back to the1950s. Poole Radio Yacht Club at their superb sailing water at Longham Lakes ran 16 good races in 7-14mph variable WNW winds.
12 competitors from the South-Western, Met and Southern and Eastern districts enjoyed some exciting racing in B or C rigs, plenty of fast planing on the downwind legs and tricky wind shifts on the beats. These wind shifts and the poor visibility of the windward mark made rounding it difficult. Despite the inevitable contacts, penalty turns were carried out without any outstanding protests.
This event was a good example of how competitive older Marblehead designs can be if carefully prepared and upgraded. Robbie Nevitt’s PARADOX finished 3rd splitting the more modern boats, John Shorrock’s QUARK and Hugh McAdoo’s PRIME NUMBER, which finished 2nd and 4th. Rob Vice’s seriously upgraded Chris Dicks’ design MAGIC was 5th.
There were a few technical problems and boats going out of range twice caused PRO Peter Wiles to struggle against the wind in the electric powered rescue boat to recover boats sailing beautifully to windward to the far side of the lake. He used the power of the sails of the rescued boats to come back a lot quicker!
The prizewinners thanked Poole’s race team for running a good event and particularly Leslie Wiles for providing some absolutely superb cakes to go with the coffee that was available throughout the day. It is hoped that this event will have encouraged more sailors in the South-Western district to take up Marblehead racing and boost the numbers for the SW district Marblehead ranking event at Yeovil on 3rd of October. The next GAMES event is at Rotherham on 13 September.
Results:
1st Tony Edwards Yeovil PARADOX 22, 2nd John Shorrock Guildford QUARK 34, 3rd Robbie Nevitt Yeovil PARADOX 47, 4th Hugh McAdoo Guildford PRIME NUMBER 49, 5th Rob Vice Clapham 66, 6th Roger Stollery Guildford UPROAR 69, 7th Alf Reynolds Chelmsford PARADOX 73, 8th Dick Jobbins Solent CONSTELLATION 73, 9th John Bennett Eastleigh PARADOX 89, 10th Philip Udall Eastleigh CRAZY TUBE FREE 149, 11th CJ Vice Clapham 157, 12th Alan Veal Guildford ROAR EDGE 169.
SailTerry wrenches GUILDFORD club Members’ Trophy!
Sailing 20 points above his handicap, Terry Rensch sailed a blinder with 2 firsts, 3 seconds and 4 thirds to win the Members Bowl in a 14 race club event. Although the light winds were tricky in the morning, there was enough wind in the afternoon blowing northerly straight down the lake to have some good windward work and occasional planing off the wind. Well done Terry!
Acorn Trophy 31st May Entrance List as of 18/5/15
Entries are coming in well for the one day Marblehead Ranking Acorn Trophy with 15 confirmed so far, and with a few familiar names still to be added.
| 2439 | Tracey Ballington | O7 | Manor Park | Starkers |
| 860 | Steve Williams | 10 | 3 Rivers | Paradox |
| 1035 | Stephen Haywood | 13 | Leicestershire | Wafer |
| 1088 | Hugh McAdoo | 16 | Guildford | Prime Number |
| 2310 | Vinnie Zammit | 17 | Norwich | Prime Number |
| 1392 | Peter Crisp | 23 | Swanley | Starkers |
| 2605 | John Shorrock | 29 | Guildford | Quark |
| 1095 | Paul Tickner | 38 | Guildford | Roar Edge |
| 5 | Peter Stollery | 39 | Guildford | Uproar |
| 889 | Alf Reynolds | 42 | Chelmsford | Paradox |
| 2749 | John Smith | 43 | Manor Park | Quark |
| 900 | Austin Guerrier | 46 | 3 Rivers | Prime Number |
| 2904 | Tony Guerrier | 50 | 3 Rivers | Quark |
| 1089 | Alan Viney | 51 | Guildford | Prime Number |
| 794 | Roy Stevens | 54 | Tri-Services | Quark |
| 893 | Graham Bartholomew | 65 | Coalhouse Fort | Starkers |
| 2037 | Phil Holliday | 66 | Watermead | Quark |
| 422 | Peter Popham | 71 | 3 Rivers | Cream Cracker |
| 3101 | John Townsend | 78 | Guildford | ROK |
| 978 | Dick Jobbins | 86 | Solent | Constellation 2 |
| 2219 | John Bennett | 91 | Eastleigh | Paradox |
| 2999 | Terry Rensch | 92 | Guildford | Quark |
| 2453 | Darin Ballington | 98 | Manor Park | ROK |
| 2063 | Graham Whalley | 116 | Manor Park | Starkers |
| 199 | Rob Vice | 117 | Guildford | Uproar |
| 241 | Alan Veal | 141 | Guildford | Roar Edge |
Congratulations to Peter Stollery for a 2nd at the IOM Worlds in Foster City California
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
Met & Southern District Marblehead Ranking event for the ACORN Trophy – Notice of Race
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!