The bonfire smoke had clearly affected the weather conditions as competitors arrived to find the Flash completely engulfed in fog and no wind. As the OOD Howard Green carried out the briefing to less than optimistic competitors, the mist began to clear and we could see the far side of the lake by the end of the briefing. The Optimists of Alex and Ben Welfare were first off on what turned out to be a running start with the early...
Winds of 2-18 knots and a mixture of sunshine Saturday and showers Sunday ensured that there was something for everyone at this year’s 24hr race. A Tequila Sunrise on Saturday morning followed a great Friday night in and around our excellent marquee sourced by event-master Ian Ritchie. The teams prepped their boats and everything was ready for our starting teams to take to the water for the 12.00pm start. This year, for the first time, we had 4 teams entered...
This year we are trying something different with our AGM – Yvette is serving a Curry Dinner prior to the AGM on a Wednesday night. Hopefully we have more people interested in coming straight from work with food on offer. It will take place on Wednesday 20th November with Dinner served from 6.30pm and the AGM itself kicking off at 7.30pm. This is your chance to hear what’s going on and have your say about the way the club is...
The Tera Northern Series took place over 7 weekends this summer at venues as varied as Leigh & Lowton, Derwent and even the Isle of Man. John Bridgeman clinched the RS Tera Sport Series Trophy after winning the last 2 events, finishing in great style. Tom Pritchard-Jones and Freddie Wood also competed well across the series, finishing 4th and 5th respectively. The Tera Pro fleet was less well attended as a series, but Nat Pritchard-Jones won the LLSC open earlier...
Following a very difficult day for the Race Officer and the event management team on Saturday, it was decided the trickle of a breeze was insufficient to run the event. Unfortunately for some, no racing took place. All was far from lost, as the local Race Officer and team were willing to try again on Sunday with promises of a steady westerly. On Sunday 16 helms had covered and stored their boats with the intention to return to sail, the...
The build up to the event had been a little stressful with the juniors training to use symmetrical kites and genoas on the GP14s on Friday nights under the tuition of Julia, Lewis, Richard and John. Some last minute issues with one of the boats meant a quick switch-around to Julia/Joe’s GP (thanks!) and last minute modifications to put it all together. Come Saturday morning at 7.30am the team were assembled with boats fully rigged, ready for their pre-race briefing...
A weekend of family fun and entertainment! The wind gods had decreed that this was going to be no sunshine-fest but the weather held out enough to allow glimpses of sunshine amongst the showers and fine Saturday night. Saturday consisted of a family fun day with kids entertained by instructors Lindsay, Will and Tash with duck races, relays, paddling and plenty of splashing around – no one really cared that it was raining. The adults meanwhile enjoyed some light wind...
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th June Entry Free for club members, BBQ extra – book on webcollect below to guarantee your food, extra BBQ tickets may be available on the day but will be on first-come, first served basis; when they run out, they run out. See webcollect for Sailing Instructions https://webcollect.org.uk/llsc/event/regatta-weekend-bbq-saturday-15th-june-2019 Free Camping- make a weekend of it Visitors welcome/encouraged on Sunday, see link below to enter and to view Sailing Instructions: https://webcollect.org.uk/llsc/event/llsc-regatta-open-sunday-16th-june-2019 Family Fun Saturday 15th June 11:30 ...
Location: Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club, 11th & 12th May 2019 The first of the 2019 RS Tera North Traveller Series was held together with the North Feva Open at Leigh & Lowton SC. A total of 24 boats took to the water over the weekend in changeable conditions. Great racing from all the sailors and race teams from Leigh & Lowton. A favourable NW wind enabled four races to be run on the Saturday, with very light wind forecast...
Leigh & Lowton youngsters performed very well at the recent Eric Twiname event hosted by Rutland Sailing Club, an event won by the Northern Squads!! https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/217152/Eric-Twiname-Junior-Championships-winners-crowned Harvey Leigh was on the podium in 3rd place in the Laser 4.7s, with Bruno Nicholas and Will Rowland also performing well in the same fleet. John Bridgeman had a great weekend and almost got himself on podium, finishing 5th in a very compact leaderboard while Ben Welfare finished 25th in his first ET...