IOM Mid Week Handicap

A beautiful sunny day, 21 degrees and a fairly consistant North-Westerly of about 8 knots gave us pretty much ideal conditions for our IOM handicap at Risdon Brook Dam today.
Rod Marshall took on PRO duties and made sure that the day ran smoothly. Thanks Rod for your work today.
We welcomed guest skipper Rohan Langford who sailed Phil Turnbull’s Blitz in the pre-lunch session. Rohan is a regular skipper with the DSS DF65 group and has recently competed in the SB20 world titles in Singapore. A naval designer by profession Rohan is very interested in IOM design. He certainly performed very well for his first IOM sail with a race win and two second places. Well done Rohan – we hope that you enjoyed your sail today.
Jammy and I had a bit of a shock when launching our boats we found that the ramp winch was not snibbed at the ratchet. With both of us on the ramp it suddenly went rolling out into deeper water. I guess it could have been worse and it just meant wet sloshy boots for the morning. Glad that it wasn’t winter!
The podium was well shared today with race wins for the first seven skippers and podium appearances for all but Dave Woolley who unfortunately broke a shroud in the first race and decided to spend the day just cruising the course with his B-rig.
Third overall was John Hall with two race wins on his score sheet. Second and first today were equal on points but I managed a count-back victory over Ray Joyce with an extra race win in my tally.
It was such a lovely day to be Radio Sailing. Let’s all hope that our run of great weather will hold through the National Championships.
Coming Up:
Sunday: IOM Scratch sailing at Montrose and a great chance for a last workout before the Nationals (1:00 button-press)
Next Wednesday: DF95 Handicap racing at Risdon Brook Dam. (11:00 button-press)
Shorty