Another light wind day at Eastbourne with the wind coming from the Cafe. The final scores are as follows:
Full Results are as before on the Eastbourne Club website here
Another light wind day at Eastbourne with the wind coming from the Cafe. The final scores are as follows:
Full Results are as before on the Eastbourne Club website here
Thanks to John Taylor for these words about racing on day 1
The full results (21 races!) after day 1 of 2 can be seen here
The pop-up RG65 event at Two Islands on 24th August has been designated as a valid replacement for the original TT1 which had to be cancelled earlier in the year.
Ten races were completed in light winds and very wet conditions, before the light breeze faded. Racing was competitive and close with several boats often overlapped at the finish.
The results were as follows:
Rounds 8 and 9 of this years TT being held at Birkenhead will now take place on the 26th and 27th October and not the 19th and 20th October as originally published. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this change.
The NoR will be released shortly and the MYA Calendar and Entry details will be released at the same time.
Woodspring have kindly agreed to host TT5 in place of the one which had to be cancelled at Bournville on the same day. Unfortunately there will not currently be a TT6.
For more details such as the NoR and to enter, please head over to the relevant MYA Event page:
https://www.mya-uk.org.uk/events/#events/event-details/64f06a7510164b002affb293/
It was a bright and sunny morning with a decent swing rig breeze that greeted the eleven sailors for Round 4 of this years TT. However, by the time racing started under the watchful eye of RO Damian Ackroyd, the breeze had started to build and most boats were sporting their full sized conventional rigs. During the day, the breeze built (needing a change down) and remained from a mostly Westerly direction, giving a course where the windward mark was at the limits for good visbility and boats that were sailing away from the skippers. There was plenty to be gained (and for some lost) in the gusts and shifts that existed across the course and throughout the day.
However, the one consistent aspect of the day was Graham Elliott sailing an Electronica, which managed to win 15 of the 16 races, with only Peter Baldwin (Uno) spoiling his clean sweep by winning race 1, although that was by the slimmest of margins having had a good lead throughout the race.
There was a good tussle all day between Peter and John Tushingham (Sliver) to see who might get the second place and by the end, John took the spot with a slightly more consistent set of results over the day. Special mention should go to Grant Rowe, who only started out Radio Sailing recently and had never sailed an RG65 before this weekend and finished a very creditable fourth in his borrowed Scurry.
This was a great days sailing at a relaxed pace and minimal walking with the course situated in front of the launching area and with some seating for a few as an added bonus!
The next two rounds of this years TT are scheduled to be held at Borunville on 6th and 7th July.
In just over a week on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd June, the first TT events (3&4) of 2024 will take place at Weecher reservoir the home of Keighley & District MES Ltd. Unfortunately the TT events earlier in the year at Two Islands were cancelled and so the series this year will be reduced to only 7 events including the Nationals at Eastbourne.
Entry is via the MYA website using the following links:
Saturday; https://www.mya-uk.org.uk/events/#events/event-details/64f06a095cbd7f0028a50f56/
Sunday: https://www.mya-uk.org.uk/events/#events/event-details/654bd0201049b20027f0331f/
Entry oficially closes on Thursday 30th June at 18:00
With all the rain we have had in the last couple of days, the lake should be full, it doesn’t suffer from weed and there is usually some wind being perched up on the moors.
The events after this are TT 5&6 at Bournville on the 6th & 7th July.
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