January 1st – it was time for the New Year’s Day Pursuit Race 2015 at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club. The forecast was a little less than appealing to some, with some websites suggesting that winds at 17 gusting to 40+ knots would be the order of the day. However, the 52 crews that braved the elements found a decent, if building breeze with some reasonably fierce gusts to stretch the legs & work off the recent festive excess &...
High-Performance Big Fleet Racing Heads North Link Leigh & Lowton SC in the North West of England has been offering one of the biggest and most challenging big-fleet open winter racing series for many years; The Crewsaver Tipsy Icicle Series. The handicap fleet attracts over 180 boats from all across the North of England and North Wales every Sunday from January to March each year. Chris Leigh, Junior Coordinator at the club, hopes to develop the fleet even further by...
Results On the 2rd November 2014 Leigh & Lowton sailing club hosted their annual Guy Fawkes pursuit race which signals the start of their Revett and ‘Crewsaver’ sponsored Tipsy Icicle series open winter series details of which can be found on the link below. The day started off bright and breezy with a south westerly force 3 for the lone Optimist sailor who led the 67 strong fleet off at 12.40pm. Minute by minute the other boats started and so began the game...
Our popular winter series are almost upon us and at this time of year we begin to see a greater increase in use of the clubhouse, car park, boat park, launching area and the boat house. Because of this the club is organising a works party on Saturday 8th November in order to tidy the grounds up and get everything in shape for the start of what we anticipate will be a very busy couple of months. Many hands make light work so please make the...
As another year of club racing draws to an end now is the time to polish your shoes and get your best clobber out to attend the clubs annual prize giving evening to collect the prizes you’ve won, applaud those who beat you or just to watch you sailing ‘hero’ collect their prize. The club prize giving evening will take place in the clubhouse on Saturday 15th November 2014 starting at 7pm. The bar will be open from 6.30pm and there will be a light buffet provide.
Devoti D-Zero open day at Leigh & Lowton on the 18th & 19th October 2014. Start time on 18th 12.00 noon and 19th 10.30 a.m. No need to pre-book. This invitation is open to members and non-members so just turn up and give it a try. The Devoti D-Zero is from the builders of the most successful Finns ever. Devoti Finns have been the choice of every Finn Olympic Medal winner since 1996, including the most amazing run of three...
There might be boys on the front row of the RYA zone racing and training photo taken before the sailing but they weren’t around front row of the finish line. It was girls girls girls. So well done to Sian Talbot, Charlotte Rockett and well deserved overall event winner Ellie Driver. Luke Shaw head coach had special mentions for Eloise Clapson-Mcbride who made a plucky capsize recovery and to Jonny Lathom who was overall best starter in the training… It...
Podium finishes for LLSC in every class at the weekends RYA West Zone Squad champs. LLSC junior sailors continued with their recent top form with a first and third in the optimists from Archie Leckie and Harvey Leigh, a win in the RS Fevas from brother Matt Leckie and Izzy Bristow and a second in the Toppers from Lorcan Knowles. The wind was gusting to about 2mph which made for very challenging racing. Many more LLSC sailors secured the squad positions they were...
On the 28th September 2014 Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club hosted their annual Solo open meeting at Pennington Flash. This event forms part of the North West travellers’ series. The 34 helms who attended were greeted by an overcast sky and a mill pond that was the Flash. After a 10.30am briefing there was much muttering about whether it was worth taking the covers off the boats as shortly before the scheduled 11am start time the postponement flag was hoisted...
Barts Bash at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club. On arrival there was little wind but plenty of excitement to be found as the crews looked forward to racing against the world and agreed that no matter what happened wind wise they were there for a good cause, to remember the inspiration that was Bart Simpson and, as we sometimes forget, sailing is all about fun and enjoying yourself with likeminded people. 66 dinghies of 16 different classes took to the water for...