31 Jan 2026. Club relay race
When todays race officers Ralph Biggs and Graeme Raxworthy arrived at the Lake we were greeted by our secretary Al Ross who had already opened up the shed, had run the flags up the flag pole, the Norm Hill in the water with the hedge trimmer ready to attack the weeping willow which restricts our view of our yachts. So thank you Al, Raxy and Chris Stricker for a job well done.
Now for todays relay racing. A rectangle course was set with the finishing line a continuance of the start line.
Eventually we had sixteen skippers sign up and it was decided to have eight teams of two, each team was given a colour to identify them.
Red Team R Ron Bedyn and George Kermedilidis
Yellow Team Y Dayele Hobson and Tony Taylor
Blue Team B Cliff Bishop and Roy Bickerstaffe
Green Team G Bryan Treleaven and Roger Banfield
Purple Team P Bob Auton and Chris Greer
White Team W Paul Campbell and Nick Richardson
Black Team BK Ron Campbell and Chris Stricker
Pink Team PK Al Ross and Peter Badley
Eight heats were sailed the first five and eighth consisted of one lap for each yacht, heats six and seven each yacht was required to complete two laps.
Placings in the eight heats were
Place !st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Heat 1 B BK P PK Y G R W
Heat 2 R G BK P W B PK Y
Heat 3 Y BK PK P B R G W
Heat 4 Y G PK R BK B W P
Heat 5 R P BK B G PK Y W
Heat 6 P R PK Y BK B G W
Heat 7 B R Y P G PK W BK
Heat 8 G R PK BK Y P W B
With one discard the final points and places were.
1st RED 19 points
2nd Blue 19 points
3rd Black 24 points
4th Purple 26 points
5th Yellow 27 points
6th Green 28 points
7th Plnk 31 points
8th White 50 Points
Both RED and BLUE had 2 firsts but RED had more seconds so took 1st place
The sun was shining the wind was mostly a steady easterly and every one had fun, although a few marks were being hit sometimes no penalties were being done,
Thanks to Raxy and Poly for their help today.
Ralph