Category: Open Meeting Reports
Overall results. The GJW Direct (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 20th of January 2013 with the third weekend of the GJW Tipsy Icicle Winter Series. A very chilly day with a pleasant force 3 east north easterly greeted the 57 boats which arrived to take part in the third weekend of the 2013 series. Hot water was order of the day to get a few masts in and a few bits of rigging running. Now...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Results can be found using this link. The GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 2nd of December 2012 with the Revett Series. A cold and still day greeted the 39 boats who arrived to take part in the fifth weekend of the 2012 series. Now in total 115 boats have taken to the water for this series. The race teams for the day consisted of Dave & Caroline Exley...
Results can be found using this link. The GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 25th of November 2012 with the Revett Series. A wet & chilly day greeted the 60 boats who arrived to take part in the fourth weekend of the 2012 series. However by the start of the first race a steady force 4 north westerly was blowing straight down the Flash. Now in total 108 boats have...
Results can be found using this link. The GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored Winter Season continued at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 18th of November 2012 with the Revett Series. A sunny & chilly day with a pleasant but shifty force 1-2 from the north east greeted the 66 boats which arrived to take part in the second weekend of the 2012 series. Now in total 101 boats have taken to the water for this series alone. The...
The GJW Direct Insurance (GJW) sponsored Winter Season commenced at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club on Sunday the 11th of November 2012 with the Revett Series. A sunny, slightly chilly day with a pleasant force 2 greeted the 71 boats which arrived to take part in the first weekend of the 2012 series. The standard of the fleet was something to behold on what was forecast to be a very still day – luckily the forecast was wrong. The race...
Results. The North West’s premier winter club, Leigh and Lowton, hosted the GJW Guy Fawkes Pursuit on Sunday 4th November 2012. The 3 hour race was open to all monohulls from an Optimist to a Flying Fifteen (and any other of the larger dinghies as long as it’s less than 21′ overall hull length) and started at 12.40pm with the Optimists.
