More congratulations to Sam Hall for attaining 2nd U14 at Redesmere in the NW Junior Travellers series on Saturday. He went on get a 3rd at South Windermere on Sunday. Well done.

Congratulations to Sam Hall who won the Junior Plate at South Windermere regatta last week. Yet another piece of silverware for mum to polish!

Above are a couple of photos of rescue crew staff Josh and Tom taken during Bass Week – for some reason Baywatch, or the Jolly Green Giant, springs to mind!

If you enjoyed the week and are planning ahead for next year then put 2 – 10 August in your diary (you won’t be the first)

Sam Hall has today won the Mount Haes Trophy at this year’s NSSA Regatta being held in Plymouth

Well, with the Mirror (er, Bass) Forum down I will have to moan on the website. It’s not good enough. There I am taking a well earned break from Bass at the Brit GP when, suddenly, all these Mirrors go out. There’s Twin (soccer’s stopped), Des (with B&Q sponsorship), Stato (thought he’d retired), and even Toddy (complete with video of his Ripon exploits). And now I’m getting s—— in two series. Still, at least we had a Finnish (and Ferrari) win in the GP!

Mik.

Well Toggle’s found another way of demonstrating how to use a boat single handed – trust him to be different, most of us stay in the boat! At today’s Lord Birkett 2007 Toggle needed a tow in.

With the Lord Birkett Trophy being sailed at Ullswater, numbers were slightly down at the club today. The rain held off, but the wind made up for it! The blustery gusts caught out a few including William (with a rather nervous Cristina), Lewis, Mike F, Rory & Toddy.

The first race was a pursuit, and as last week, the finish was fairly close. Shunty, sailing with Cecile, took pole position with Hugh and Rhonwen second. Mike Moore and Mark finished a disgruntled third having been ‘delayed’ by some of TT Fairlamb’s (Mike Moore’s nickname for him) antics!

Having had a few gulps of lake water, Cristina was even more cautious about trying the second race! However, she did go out, start and retired at the end of the windward leg (all in 15 mins according to the webcam). There was some good racing, but less eventful with wins going to Shunty, Hugh, and Tim Smith

As for the gossip, apparently height matters. When Shunty was coming ashore he had stepped out the boat expecting the water to be up to his knees, but it was more like waist deep. A comment that it would have been knee deep on anyone else, started the banter about him being the shortest (adult) helm – but Mike F piped up obviously vying for the trophy. I can’t remember the third person to get involved in this discussion, but fortunately the proposed line-up to verify the shorty didn’t happen.

Here’s some links for videos from last week’s training at Ripon. Starting Starting 2� Starting 3 Windward mark

Heard the story about the bus journey from Whitehaven to Cockermouth that took 3� hours? No, it wasn’t due to an in efficient bus service, a mechanical breakdown, heavy traffic, or weather conditions. A certain (lone) passenger fell asleep, and missed her stop, and woke up somewhere near Wigton. When she realised her predicament, she admitted to rolling in the aisles laughing (her words!) and having to tell herself to stop [laughing], but these fits of laughter kept coming back as her journey continued to the terminus at Carlisle and back to where she was first heading. As demanded by her friend, she eventually sent a text to say she was safely back home. Of course, by the time she arrived at work on Monday the whole office knew about the trip – so why shouldn’t you? Thanks to our very own Cecile for sharing this with us (and the rest of the club!)

Well actually yes! Congratulations to Sam Hall for achieving 1st U14 and 4th overall at last weekend’s Bolton North West Junior Travellers event