AJ always puts on a smile as he practices his dance routine. Is that what he should be doing while marshalling traffic?

I am a parent from Queen Mary SC and I am writing up a small report on our team’s experiences at the NSSA at Bassenthwaite last week.

They all had a fantastic week – the place is beautiful and the Bass members worked so hard to make it a great event.

Alison Benz

Hi to you all at beautiful Bassenthwaite Sailing Club,

Please pass on my thanks to all your club members that made the event possible.

Philippa Alcock

On the 25th Anniversary edition of Countryfile the following picture was spotted. Can you see what has changed?

Don’t forget that discount for early entry comes to and end
this weekend and the online entries will close. If you want to take
advantage you had better be quick!

To all the Bass members, thank you for all your help and support during the NSSA National Youth Regatta. Everyone has worked extremely hard to make a successful event.

Jose

Click on the adjacent logo to view� our NSSA National Youth Regatta pages

AJ assures us that this is the ‘crinkles’ teaching Tog how to tickle salmon so that Herb can have his smoked salmon sandwiches during the NSSA regatta next week!

Good sailing conditions tempted 11 boats to the water for the Celebrity Glass pursuit. Pam in her Mirror was the first to start, and she held her lead well until a rope caught as she tacked resulting in a capsize which she could not recover from and retired.

The chasing fleets had some close competition that continued through to the final tacks on the finish line with four boats finishing in less than 20 secs, and all boats finishing within 4 mins. There must have been several people wondering ‘if only’, as various incidents had boats doing turns (and perhaps some more that should have done them!). With one leg to go, Banter looked in a strong position to win, but Dave/Sarah sailed well to take the lead as Mike/Kayla done a penalty turn at the penultimate mark. It was to be a final tack on the finish line that Mike won from Dave, with Banter 3rd.

Latest results
– Celebrity Glass Pursuit
– BL etc

Sunday’s conditions were considerably more blustery, and fortunately it remained dry.

With the rescue crews still on holiday, Peter and AJ stepped into the breech. They were eager to help when it came to moving a mark – shame they didn’t take account of the Bates’ anchor warp in their manoeuvres (fortunately they were warned just in time!). You just can’t get the staff these days….

With only two takers in the Asymmetric Cup there was an opportunity for match racing between Toggle and Banter in their Vareos. Tog had the best start, and led through to the 2nd leg when Banter took advantage of some better gusts to storm through to the lead. With gybing proving challenging, it would be down to making the least number of mistakes. There was some close racing on the beats, and both helms suffered numerous capsizes, but it was to be the final run that was the decider. Tog was leading, and Banter opted for the opposite side of the course, but capsized whilst gybing. Herb commented that Banter should be calling it a day, but he didn’t; after righting his boat he continued racing, and Tog promptly capsized. As Tog had his mast stuck in the mud, Banter took full advantage of the situation, took the lead and won! Tog retired. Banter leads the series.

In the MJM series, there were three F15s and a GP. Phil/Hannah capsized their GP several times at the numerous gybe mark, and eventually capsized. Tim and daughter(?), didn’t seem to be far behind on the capsize stakes, broaching several times, and being flattened at least once! That left Mike/Kayla and Graham/Elaine to battle it out for the lead. Mike must have been generally comfortable with his lead as he didn’t chance flying his kite very often, until Graham started to close the gap that is! At the penultimate mark, Graham was on Mike’s tail, but Mike covered up the final beat, and won by a small margin and currently leads the series.

Latest results – Asymmetric Cup/MJM