Fifteen boats came to the start line for the RS300 Inland Championship 2012 held at Leigh & Lowton Sailing |Club on the weekend of 20th & 21st October. Despite the forecast for light winds, some of the visitors were well travelled from areas as distant as Portsmouth, Cheddar and Sunderland. For the gallery click on the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/104536170099821426208/RS300Inlands2102?authkey=Gv1sRgCM_Qy4CSgeDYRA Results
Day 1 A dry and gusty day on Pennington Flash at Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club for the RYA Volvo West Zone Championships, average wind speed between 15 – 16 knots with gusts of 23-25 knots throughout the day, with the safety fleet kept busy with several capsizes throughout the day.
Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club hosted the penultimate round of this increasingly popular series on a stormy Tuesday 18th September. The over 50s who take part in this midweek series arrived at Leigh with white caps and driving rain in evidence.However the wind calmed down and the rain stopped and so everybody began to rig. 20 boats came to the start line for the first race, a slightly reduced entry from normal attributed to the gloomy forecast. However the race...
A shifty westerly breeze greeted National 12 sailors at Pennington Flash over the bank holiday weekend for the Summer Event, which is part of the National Gill Series. In the first race it was business as usual for National Champions Graham Camm and Zoe Ballantyne who made the most of the shifts along the long first beat. They were closely followed by John Cheetham crewed by daughter Alison but as the gust came through during the race Steve and Joanne...
> Leigh & Lowton welcomed 30 sailors to its annual 6 hour race held on the August Bank Holiday Monday. A variable force 3-5 SE breeze gave the 11 competing boats plenty to think about around a 20 minute circuit. Once again it produced a nail-biting finish
Results Saturday Sunday Over the weekend of 14th/15th July a total of 64 boats from various clubs attended this years Olympic themed regatta at Leigh and Lowton sailing club at Pennington Flash. All who attended were spoilt with wall to wall sunshine and a force 3 to 4 westerly wind on both days allowing full use of the water for long beats from one end of the Flash to the other. With gold, silver and bronze medals and other prizes up...