Category: Open Meeting Reports

Phantom Open Meeting – Richard Catchpole wins with two first places

Results can be found here. An excellent “drifter” was held at Leigh and Lowton SC for the first open of the Phantom Travellers Northern Series 2013. There was a good entry of 13 boats, despite the poor weather forecast, with sailors travelling from Plymouth and London. The racing was more like “lucky dip” with the wind swinging around, but somehow the top guys got all the luck! At one point in race three, all five home boats were in positions...

Winter PY Performance

Below is the data extracted from the RYA PYS website which does the PY returns for the club and also our local handicaps. The website calculates the performance of each sailor in each race and assigns the “sailed to PY” rating. To pull the data together the “sailed to PY” has been averaged to give each Crew there average PY for the Winter Series. Crews which done 8 races or more over the winter are shown below Asymmetric Fleet The...

MSDS RS200 Open & RS400 Winter Championships

Paul Plested’s RS400 Pics & RS200 Pics. Mike Baldwins Pics.  Results What a great weekend we have all had at the open meetings. Light and testing winds both Saturday and Sunday. 16 RS200’s and 15 RS400’s competed, from all over the country. Furthest travelled was Russell and June Collister from the Isle of Man and James and Anne Gardner form Hayling Island. Entries also from Notts County and Scaling Dam. Thanks to everyone for making the effort to come along. The sailing finished after the...

A wild finale to the 2013 GJW Tipsy Icicle

Results  There was no shortage of wind for the final weekend of the GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored Tipsy Icicle Winter Series but due to the strong wind there was a shortage of competitors as many voted to stay ashore and watch the fun and games unfold.  As the sailors arrived they were greeted by a very cold easterly Force 5 wind gusting 6 with a very high wind chill factor.  The first race went ahead on time but with...

Penultimate GJW Tipsy Icicle 2013 – Results & Gallery

Results & gallery now available for the penultimate GJW Tipsy Icicle 2013. As the competitors look forward to the last week end of GJW Direct Insurance sponsored Tipsy Icicle Winter Series at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club there is still everything to sail for in some of the fleets. Week 9 of the series and a total of 169 boats have taken to the water during this series.  This weekend saw a few new faces join us as 72 boats took...

Week 8 Report, Results & Gallery – GJW Direct Insurance sponsored Tipsy Icicle Winter Series

Results Having been spolit for some weeks now by strong westerly and easterly winds and beats using the lenght of the Flash the 64 boats that that took part in week 8 of the GJW Direct Insurance sponsored Tipsy Icicle Winter Series at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club were greeted by a very cold, shifty, gusty and patchy northerly force 2 – 3 which resulted in shorter beats across the Flash and some ‘snakes & ladders’ sailing.  This weekend there were 4 boats joining us for the first time in...

GJW Tipsy Week 7 – 67 boats on the water which included 12 boats joining us for the first time in the series

Results Week 7 in the GJW Direct Insurance sponsored Tipsy Icicle Winter Series at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club welcomed back the Topper and Laser sailors who were missing last weekend due to squad/training commitments as well as some old and new faces.  All were greeted by bright sunshine and a gusty F2-4 ESE wind.  This weekend there were 67 boats on the water which included 12 boats joining us for the first time in the series taking the total...

GJW Tipsy Icicle Week 6 – A brilliant easterly

Results now online. The sixth weekend of the GJW Direct (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 10th February.  The predicted forecast of snow and very strong winds appeared to have put a few people off, and with some Laser/Topper squad training elsewhere, this resulted in only 49 boats taking to the water but they were greeted to a gusty force 3 – 4 straight down the Flash from the east bringing with it a big wind chill as well rain. ...

GJW Tipsy Week 5 – Gallery & Results

Results & gallery now online. The GJW Direct (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 3rd February with the fifth weekend of the GJW Tipsy Icicle Winter Series. Just like the weekend before it was a chilly day and a blustery westerly force 4-5 and, as the weekend before, 62 boats once again took to the water which included 16 newcomers racing for the first time thereby taking the total number of boats...

GJW Tipsy Icicle Week 4 – A bright and blustery day

Gallery & results now online. The GJW Direct (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 27th of January 2013 with the fourth weekend of the GJW Tipsy Icicle Winter Series.  A chilly day with a blustery west south westerly force 4-5 greeted the 62 boats which arrived to take part in the fourth weekend of the series.  Now in total 125 boats have taken to the water for the Series. The race teams for...