A glorious winter day at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club welcomed the 50+ competitors for the long-running New Year’s Day race. The wind maps were showing various different forecasts for the day, with competitors concluding that a gentle SSW was the most likely outcome. This proved to be accurate as the Optimists got things underway in a zephyr of a F1. Along with the Toppers and Fevas a fleet of juniors totalling 12 in number were out early. The breeze...
80 competitors took to the water across the 2022 Revett Series at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club, held over the 6 weekends before Xmas. The range of conditions was immense with sunshine and light winds week 1, a big thunderstorm with 180 degree shifts and hail week 2 and ending up with a frozen lake on the final weekend!! The OODs did well to get the full quota of races in when the wind and ice allowed. As ever, the...
Leigh & Lowton SC kicked off their winter programme with the traditional Guy Fawkes Pursuit. Forecasters were predicting anything from 8 to 25 knots in the run-up to the event, so it was a major upset when competitors arrived to a near flat calm. The talk ashore was all about this being a fast boat’s race as the wind was expected to build. The juniors started in a gentle breeze, navigating the holes in the course as best they could,...
In the absence of other events running, the sailors at Leigh & Lowton decided the North West needed a long-distance race somewhere in the season. They concluded that overnight sailing was too precarious to allow a 24hr race in the deep waters of the Flash and full darkness, so the concept of a Sunrise to Sunset Race was born, on a weekend close to the Summer Solstice. The eye-watering 4:40am start had the opening shift sailors all groggily pulling up...
Pit your wits against the Menai Straits in our 75th Anniversary regatta & Celebration party on 9th & 10th July. Book online at www.pdsc.org.uk
A fantastic new facility has been installed to allow safer access to the waters of Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club for club members, and especially for those with restricted mobility. The replacement of the old, dilapidated pontoon with a 3m wide highly stable platform will transform the ability of the club to provide accessible sailing for all, complementing the existing Hansa fleet of boats that the club has had on site for many years. The project was devised, designed and...
Leigh & Lowton SC restarted their annual Guy Fawkes Pursuit Race on Sunday 7th November, having had to cancel last year for COVID lockdown reasons. The forecast for the day was for a squally one with gusts of up to 30 knots – the reality did not disappoint. Many resisted the temptation to go afloat and of those that didn’t, some were back ashore without troubling the start line, due to breakages or big swims! The juniors were not deterred...
Are you or someone you know thinking of joining the RS400 Class? If so, come and find out why this class remains so popular, over 25 years after it was launched, with great turnouts at Nationals and regional events and a 50-boat National Championships. Our RS Class Association demo boat is available throughout the Winter at Leigh & Lowton SC. So far this year at least 4 pairs have joined the fleet, following demo sails. Could you be next? Who...
It was great to see 17 boats from all over the north region arrive at Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club for the North West Optimist Championships. Light winds and shifty conditions meant it was tricky sailing, and the race officer did well to get 4 races in. In the first race large shifts meant there were lots of gains to be made, with many place changes throughout. Jacob Bennett (Glossop) came out on top, Ben Welfare (LLSC) came second and Lochlyn Grant (LLSC/WKSC) took third. In the...
It was a Regatta Weekend like no other, with no visitors and no big party on Saturday night, but club members enjoyed some friendly competition despite it all. The Saturday proved to be very light and tricky. Martin Spencer (D-One) and Tim Coleman (single-handed Albacore) proved best at adapting to the conditions in the adult handicap fleet. A 1st and 2nd apiece meant the day going to Martin on the last race win. Meanwhile, the junior fleet was a family...