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Scoring Help Sheet

Club racing – Officer of the Day information. Below is some information for this season’s club racing, hopefully most of which will be familiar to you. The Excel workbook has been updated with the latest PYs and is called 2013 Club Races.xlsm and is located in the middle of the Desktop. It is a macro enabled file, hence the file extension .xlsm Entering data. There are 5 tabs – Asymmetric, Handicap, Laser, Solo and 1 spare. For Saturday racing all...

The Basics: A handbook for all LLSC ODs

Download OOD Guide Running club racing at LLSC is nothing to be worried about this guide is there to give you the basics of how to run a race, but always remember if you’re not sure about anything just ask somebody will always be willing to offer help and advice. There are only 5 steps to a successful race:

GJW Tipsy Icicle Week 2 – A chilly day with a force zero wind

The GJW sponsored Winter Season did not continue at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 13th January 2013 due to the abandonment of the second weekend of the GJW Tipsy Icicle Winter Series. A chilly day with a force zero greeted the sailors who arrived to take part in the second weekend of the series. The race teams for the day consisted of Peter Baldwin on the water and Anne & Helen in the galley. The PRO searched the Flash...

GJW 2013 Tipsy Icicle Week 1

Week 1 Results. The GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 6th of January 2013 with the commencement of the GJW Tipsy Icicle Winter Series. A sunny & chilly day with a pleasant but shifty force 1-2 from the east greeted the 87 boats which arrived to take part in the first weekend of the 2013 series. The race teams for the day consisted of Peter Baldwin on the water...

2013 Junior Winter Regatta

2013 Junior Winter Regatta

Results On Saturday 5th January a massive 68 youths and juniors arrived at Leigh & Lowton for the annual Junior Winter Regatta to find the lake fog-bound. Despite the promise of wind in the forecast, there was still none at by start time and the postponement was hoisted. With a near flat calm on the water the OOD finally gambled on the wind filling in and sent the fleet afloat. The wind duly obliged and gave enough breeze for just one...

New Year’s Day Pursuit

  Results LLSC NYD pursuit 2013 The GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Tuesday 1st of January 2013 with the famous New Year’s Day Pursuit Race and, wow, what a fabulous day’s racing with 15-20 knots of breeze. Any hangovers were well and truly blown away in a tough day’s racing with high quality entrants from around the North West, National and World Champions doing battle with the up and coming youngsters to...

2012 Web Stats

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 200,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 4 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe! Click here to see the complete report.

South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club (SCYC) – Dates for 2013

South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club (SCYC) – 2013 end of year report A tough economic climate and some pretty terrible weather – surely the ingredients for a year of troubles for a Yacht Club? You’d have thought so – but SCYC is managing to buck the trends. Established fleets have continued to do well and new ones are growing such as the Dragons and the Dinghies. They’ve got a record number of members, a Squib fleet to die for and 3...

GJW Revett Series Week 5 – 33mph gusts make a great finale! Report, results & 300 photographs!

Results can be found using this link. A gallery of images will be added later today. The GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored 2012 Winter Season concluded at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 9th of December 2012 with the Revett Series. Quite a wild day, with a 33mph gusts, greeted the 51 boats who arrived to take part in the fifth and final weekend of the 2012 series. Overall a total 120 boats have taken to the water...