A difficult day at the dam today with very light winds until the last race by the sounds of it.
Big thanks to Les and Rod for taking the Pro duties for the day. Always very appreciated. Stu Dawes came away with the round win today with 22 points - an impressive 3 race wins and worst counted score of 4. Second place was Lisa Blackwood on 25 points. Three race wins and a 5th as worst counted. Also very consistent. Third place today went to John Hall. Three wins in the first four races had him blasting out of the blocks nicely, maintaining some good finishes throughout with 33 points for the day. In Silver Division, John Hall came away with first place, on 16 points. Phil Turnbull took home second place on 24 points, with Ian Hey just one point bfurther behind on 25 points. One note from after sailing finished - and a call out for someone who may be "in the know. Unfortunately, the knot holding the rescue dinghy came loose while being towed back to the lockup and the dinghy fell off the back of the trailer - sustaining some damage to the rear of the skeg, dragging a hole in it which requires repair via plastic welding. Do any of our members know of a plastic welder that may be able to carry out a simple repair for us in order to make the rescue dinghy ready for service for us again? We should be able to make a temporary repair for Wednesdays sail day, but do need to get a permanent repair completed on it. If you know of somebody that can help, please either let myself or one of the committee know as soon as possible so we can get the repair organised. Coming Up IOM Handicap Racing on webdesday at the Dam, button press at 11am RM Scratch Racing next Sunday at Montrose, button press at 1pm Kyle
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Another lovely day at Risdon Brook Dam! Sunny, a temperature in the mid- twenties, and a light North-Wester (2 or 3 knots) blowing down the dam. By race 6 in the afternoon a sea breeze arrived making for some fun racing with the A-rigs. Close finishes were the order of the day.
The rotating PRO system was used today. Thanks to all who participated. It was great to see Dave Woolley racing his V11 (the red hulled No.55) for the first time. Dave scored a couple of podium finishes too! Pete Turner took out third place overall with the Mad Max especially enjoying the light conditions of the morning. Ray Joyce regularly features in the placings on Wednesday and took out second today. Especially good sailing as otherwise the back markers found it difficult to make an impression on the fleet. And Today’s winner was Ricky Price with a score-sheet showing that he was consistently at the pointy end of the fleet. All up it was just enjoyable to be sailing. It was the type of day where you could have easily raced on until sundown. Coming up: Sunday: DF95 scratch racing at the dam. (1:00 button) Next Wednesday: More IOM handicap racing at the dam. (11:00 button) Shorty Warm conditions today, and drizzle about for much of the time while sailing.
Very light to light South to South East wind, with a bit of South West coming in at times. Quite shifty on the water, with some rather large changes in directon encountered turning many hero's into zero's and vice versa thoughout. We all had our fair share in both camps there today. Thirteen sailors on the water for much of the day - a great turnout - and fantastic to see the skippers taking the responsible options when parking with such a good turnout. Those that are more mobile opting to park on the hill, leaving the concrete apron to those who are less able to get around. Very appreciated to you all. Les was not able to make it today, so Stu Dawes and John Banks provided us our offical duties today - thanks guys for the work in setting courses, calling the contacts and boats over the line etc. Not an easy day for course setting with the breeze, but we do appreciate the work gone in to setting up the best options we could. It was nice also to see Mat Gray along to watch for a while. Mat has not sailed yet this year after dislocating his hip and is on a long, slow recovery journey. Great to see him out and watching the sailing for a little while. Big progress seeing you out and about, and hope to see you along again soon, when you are feeling up to it. Ten races completed today, with the dam specialists really excelling today Michael Hickman just so consistent today, hardly putting a foot wrong, finishing a well deserved round winner on 16 points. Three behind in second, was Ray Joyce - also a very consistent day today. Well done to both of you. Third place today, on 31 points, was Lisa Blackwood. In Silver fleet today, Rod Marshall retrurned to the top of the leaderboard, on 23 points. Three Silver fleet wins, but notably, a first and second overall as well. Second in Silver Fleet - on countback - was Andrew Wardrop, on 24 points, from Peter Sylvester. Great to see such close results. Coming up Wednesday is a return to Mid Week IOM Handicap at the Dam, button press at 11am Sunday 17th March is DF95 Scratch at the Dam, 1pm Button Press Kyle It was a lovely sunny day at the dam with the temperature nudging 30 C and a good (but variable) North Westerly wind mostly of 5 – 10 knots. I wasn’t surprised when I arrived to unlock the gates at 9:30 to see Phil Turnbull and Martin Svensen there eager and waiting. Both had very good sails yesterday at Puddleduck and I guess were keen to see if their rich vein of form would continue.
PRO Andrew Wardrop set a variety of good courses to match the changing wind conditions. Thanks for your work as usual Andrew. Third place today went to the in-form Phil Turnbull who was backing up a second place in the Peter Smith memorial regatta on Saturday and a win in Tuesday’s Puddleduck event. Phil seems to think that his leaky DF95 is a bit faster than his other one. John Hall took second place after winning the first two races straight off the bat. This is always a risky thing to do on a handicap day so well done John! Today’s winner was Ray Joyce who was very consistent throughout the day. Congratulations Ray. A ‘handicap shakedown’ occurred with this weeks results. When a scratch skipper (Ray) wins the day the top third of the fleet retain their starting handicap while the rest of the skippers (those that have completed enough races) have their handicap reduced by 10 seconds. Coming up! Sunday IOM scratch racing at Risdon Brook - Change of location due to very low tide again (1:00 button) Next Wednesday IOM handicap at Risdon Brook Dam (11:00 button) Shorty It was a sunny day and with a forecast top of 32 C the best place to be was at Risdon Brook Dam racing IOM yachts. The wind was a fairly consistent 2 - 5 knots and mostly Northerly in direction although a light sea breeze filtered through for the last two races.
All skippers made the podium at some stage today which is a sign of the handicap system working well. Third overall today was Andrew Floyd with three race wins on his sheet. I managed second place in a bit of a welcome back sail after a month off. The boat was performing really well. Thanks Kyle who did some work on it. And today’s winner was Commodore Rod Marshall. A rockstar performance! Rod’s consistent results including five podium finishes to give him the win by a clear margin. Coming up: Sunday: Long distance racing at Risdon Brook Dam. 11:00 button. Bring any boat. Next Wednesday: DF95 handicap racing at the dam. 11:00 button. Warm, overcast conditions today, with a light breeze from general directions - yup, everywhere.
Unfortunately some weed early on and late in the day, but some great racing in the middle sections. Ten sailors on deck today, with our regular northern visitor becoming a more permanent northern member with the club. Welcome Ted :) Just the 8 races completed today with the lighter conditions. Lisa Blackwood having the best of it with her V12 sailing superbly in the light stuff with 4 wins from the 7 races she completed, coming out a comfortable winner on the day with 9 points. Stu Dawes took second today, showing outstanding consistency with a worst counted 4th position with just 17 points for the day. In third place, with a couple of wins today, was the most travelled sailor, Ted Stevens, with 22 points. Those tuning tips early on today helped get some great speed from the trusty Britpop! In our newly created Silver Fleet, Ted took out top spot with 8 points. Rod Marshall was just two points behind in second spot on 10 points. John Hall took out third, two further behind, on 12 points. Interesting to see in the main draw, that just 4 points separated 3rd spot and 7th spot today, showing just how close again the racing was. The final results really don't show how competitive the fleet as a whole really is. Coming up Wednesday is IOM Mid Week Handicap at the Dam, button press at 11am - early volunteers are very welcome For those interested, Saturday is the Annual DF65 Peter Smith Memorial Regatta at Puddleduck Vinyard, Richmond, commencing at 9am. It's a handicap event and a real good event to watch if you have some time available to come and have a look. Puddleduck Vinyard is an absolute delight as well. Next Sunday is Long Distance Day at the Dam, 11am button press. Some of us with A Class yachts are bringing them along for a sail. Kyle It was quite hot at the dam, today but a good crew.
In the morning, Andrew Wardrop did the PRO task and did not sail, but had to leave at lunchtime. Thanks Andrew for your help today. The afternoon a few of us did PRO and those are indicated along the bottom. If we rotate Pro's next week, please be sure to ahve a turn if you have yet to take a turn in the last few weeks to make it fair on everyone. Winner today on countback was Lisa, on 24 points, to ian hey in Second. by virtue of her three race wins. Great consistency from Bodge - not having secured a race win, but tying up first place showing how truly consistent all his races were, with just one counted race outside the top 4!!! Third place today was David Jones on 29 points. Thanks also to those who helped pack up the gear today. Best Rayza👍 Coming up Sunday is IOM Scratch at MBYC, button press is at 1pm Next Wednesday is IOM Mid Week Handicap at the Dam, button press at 11am A welcome change to the last few weeks today. Ten DF95's made it along for the scratch day - a great turnout, as we knew there were four that could not make it in advance.
A stiff West Nor Westerley blowing. Stu was the first one on the water with his B Rig, and was off the water very soon after, changing up to the C. Everyone else followed suit, except for poor Cookie. His new boat had two rigs only. He tried to stick it out but pulled the plug after a few races. C rigs was the minimum for the entire day. Tacking and picking the right shifts was the order of the day, and none were better than Stu today, an absolute masterclass. Eleven races completed for the day with some close racing in amongst the fleet and some interesting tactics. Sailing in close or further out - choose your poison with the anticipated wind shift that may come. Apart from the high standard of racing, an absolute highlight was the absolute lack of calling out or extended "discussion" over incidents. There was no shortage of incidenats about the race course, but penaltes were completed quickly and without fuss, and very often accompanied with an apology to the affected skipper. A great exapmple of the sailing we strive to have as the example at the club. And I don't think our Pro had to call one of them. On that, a big thanks to Les, coming out to officiate the day today. Although you were tired at the end of the day, your health seems to be improving every week. Let's hope it continues for you on your recvery back to normal. Today, it was no surprise that Stu was our winner, with 13 points after the 11 races. Just the 7 wins for the day. Very well deserved Stu. Second place today, on countback, was Kyle Stewart, 10 points behind Stu, on 23 points - with two wins. Third place today was Michael Hickman with one win. With the size of the DF95 fleet, we will instigate a Silver Fleet as we have done with the IOM Scratch, and with that in Mind, Silver Fleet winner would ahve been Ian Hey, with Peter Sylvester in second, and Phil Jackman third. Coming up Wednesday is IOM Mid Week Handicap at the Dam, button press at 11am Next Sunday is IOM Scratch, at Montrose, Button press at 1pm Kyle Another great day at the dam today. A bit light early, but the wind increased to the top of A rig towards the end of the day and some good sailing was had by all.
An excellent turnout again by the members, with 18 yachts on the water. An excellent display for Minister Nic Street, who came along to have a look at the club, its acivities and what sort of service we provided to the community. A very productive session with him, and hopefully we might be able to get some favourable discussions in the future in regards to some upgrades to facilities we so desperately need. A massive thanks to Rod Marshall (as well as Ray and Les for proof reading and input with the documentation), who has worked very hard behind the scenes to make this happen and has also provided an excellent set of documentation that was presented to the Minister for further reference. If anyone would like to see a copy of the documentation given to the Minister, let me know and I will email a copy to you. Upgrades we are looking at now for the club are quite expensive, so if any members have any ideas for fundraising or money sourcing options, please contact someone on the committee. Our next priorities are improved launching access at both Risdon Brook and Montrose Bay and are not cheap. To date, the club has sourced internally - or sourced external funding for our Defib, Solar Panel, new Outboard Motor at Montrose Bay, Electric Motor at Risdon, and Rib/Trailer package that is transported between Montrose and Risdon Brook - as well as our regular maintenance to both sets of buoys at Montrose and Risdon, so we have come a long way in the last few years with our upgrades so far. All of this has stemmed from the original strategy drawn up from the sessions from within the membership by Rob Gavin back in 2018, and a lot of the results has got to be attributed as well to the members input back then as well as Rob's fantastic organisational and communicational abilities. But - back to sailing.... Ten races completed today, and with 18 competitors - 16 in one race, 15 in a few others, then 13 in a few more - there was quite a lot of close sailing in around the marks. A few collisions about the place, but from what I observed, penalties were taken when required, and the day stayed quite calm throughout. A pleasant day on the water. One person particularly kept his nose clean and found that sailing out in clear air and often sailing the long way around a pack of sailors had a distinct advantage. Rewards came thick and fast, with two wins, a second and a third. A worst counted score of just 5th was fantastic amongst such a big fleet. A great round win to Ricky Price with 17.1 Points today. Congrats Ricky. In second place, also very consistent with three podiums (and two wins) was Ian Hey. 12.9 points behind on 30 points. That Wooden Corby 5 is absolutely flying. The guy controlling the thumbs is doing pretty good too. Third place today, five points behind is Peter Sylvester, on 35 points. Pretty sure Peter believes you are only ever as good as your last race with a fine win in that last one. Thank you to everyone who came along today, to show such great support to the club while we had Minister Street in attendance. We really hope the support shown has raised the profile of the club in a really good way for us into the future. Coming up Sunday is DF95 Scratch at the Dam, button press is at 1pm Next Wednesday is IOM Mid Week Handicap at the Dam, button press at 11am Kyle A difficult days sailing today at the dam - for us mere mortals anyway. Relocated due to the very low tide and the potential impellor issue with the rescue boat motor at Montrose.
Very light wind, from all directions of the compass, up to 10 knots, appearing on the water randomly and disappearing just as random, which made things interesting or difficult - depending on which end of the stick you were on at the time. Seven skippers on site today, and just eight races completed. Some taking ten mnutes, and others 25, with same length of race. Stu Dawes, Ray Joyce and Lisa Blackwood each sailed well in the conditions, being the only ones to have won a race. Ray and Lisa three each and Stu with two. Winner today, was Stu on 10 points. Least wins of the top three, but most consistent, with throw outs of just a 2 and 3 for the day. Very well sailed. A single point behind was Ray, on 11. He shared in difficulties on the water, but seemed to always find a way to get back to the pointy end of the fiele. Three points further afield in third was Lisa, on 14. When the Skalpel was on, it was really on. Could have dominated the day save for a soft patch in the middle of the day when the boat seemed to lose its mojo for some reason, but soon regained it and came back with a few bullets to finish the day off. Coming up Wenesday is IOM Mid Week Handicap, button press at 11am. We will be having a visit from Minister Nick Street, who will be having a look at our new dinghy and getting a bit of an idea what RC Sailing is all about. Hopefully it might also be the start of some positive communications in to the government with our future plans. For those coming, please come along with your RBRYC shirt if you have one. It will be great to see us all in our club shirts on the day to amke a good show for the club. Next Sunday is DF95 Scratch, at the dam. Button press at 1pm. Kyle |
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