DF 65 Sailing

 DF65 Sailing - March 27

John Berry has sent a report|:

Sunday 27^th March 2022 saw the first ever DF65 series race at Etherow Park.

12 boats took part in the racing all DF65s mainly with A+ rigs.

We were greeted by excellent weather for March with sunshine all day and temperatures in the mid teens.

Practice sailing before the racing commenced looked tricky with very light winds from the East however we were lucky that the wind picked up a bit for racing.

The racing was close with 5 different winners over the 11 races sailed. The overall winner on the day was Alan Bennett.

Club Night Talks

 Club Night Talks

Now that life is slowly getting back to some semblance of normality, we have started to organise the Club Night talks programme again. The talks scheduled for the next few months are:

Wednesday 13 April

      3D Printing by Mick Street

Wednesday 11 May

      Boat Building with Depron Foam by Geoff Garside

        This talk was first given a few years ago, but there have been requests

        for a repeat performance.

Wednesday 08 June

      Boiler Testing by John Senior

        John is is the Club's official boiler tester.

Yacht Racing Report

 Yacht Racing Report

John Berry has sent a report of Yacht Racing for March 2022. He says:

Fiestas

 Sunday 20 March saw the first Fiesta Series racing of the season.

We were welcomed to the pond with clear blue skies and an 8mph wind from the East.

This year we have invited the DF65 fleet to sail with the Fiestas.

5 Fiestas and 8 DF65s took part in the 9 race day with the first race at 10am and the last race finishing before 12noon.

After 2 discards Alan Bennet won the day with his DF65 an A+ rig and a slightly cut down long keel.

Alan was closely followed by John Berry and Terry Miles sailing Fiestas and Stephen Toulson sailing another DF65 with an A+ rig.

Thanks to George Bennet and Neil Barton for doing most of the scoring

Lets hope for a similar turnout on the 27^th March when it will be DF65 racing with Fiestas invited

J Class

The first of the J Class series racing was held on Sunday 13^th March First race 10 am and the last race to be finished by 12 noon.

We we greeted by winds up to 15mph from the SW and all sailors opted for B rigs.

Trevor Redford won the day however John and Dave did make him work for his victory.