Weston Open Meeting

[dave_ching]

Shiny will be there woith a Ross on the front end.
Lara's mum had the cheek to have her 60th birthday at the same time as Weston!
The usual accomidation rules apply if thats what people want.

[Tim Noyce]

i've put up a preview on the site. didnt have any exciting weston related photos so its not hugely exciting i'm afraid! I was hoping i had the photo of Christie asleep face down in Suicide with his bike on top of him but I couldnt find it! 

[phil_kirk]

We thoroughly enjoyed the event.   I need to work on starts in the windier weather since we were left behind on a couple of ocasions.  We were really happy with our upwind speed being able to pace some of the 2005 rules boats.  I think where we often gained was by taking more to use the shifts towards the windward mark.

Oddly downwind we appeared to be more competitive in the lighter conditions on the saturday and not the windier conditions on the Sunday.

A big thanks to everyone turning out and making the event such a sociable weekend as well as a great racing event.   

is anyone doing an article for yachts and yachting? has anyone got any photos?

[Tim Noyce]

There was a camera boat but I'm not sure who was piloting it. I've not really got time to write a report, but if someone could mention our port tack 'flier' (or plodder) in race 2 on sunday that would be great 

[roland_trim]

Also worth noting is that Born Slippy got so fed up of making the wrong decisions that she decided to follow Shiny. Only when the wind died on the approach to the shore at Weston did we finally conclude she was heading in ;-)

[Tim Noyce]

haha, extreme banging of the right corner then!

[Will_Lee]

I hope you all had a great time at the weekend: I did!

Ten boats was a stonker of a turnout with better things to come as none of this years boats in build has hit the water yet.

The write up needs to be sent to Y+Y by the close of play tomorrow, and DSM similarly I think. Their "fifteen boats for the paper mag" rule seems to have been broken by the six boat turnout for the 12 foot skiffs, so we may have reason to be optimistic.

In the mean time, can everyone who reads this put a posting about the event up, preferably with a bit about the racing and a bit about other things please? That way I can assemble them into a write up tomorrow, when I am at home revising.

[Will_Lee]

Day 1:

 

[Debi]

I thought after proving my lack of fitness in atum this weekend I should actually join the forum and say Hi.

Was really good to see the old faces i knew - gav and patrick.


And was good to be out sailing    Cheers Hoppy!