As there was only one taker for racing this morning, no racing took place and the results of two weeks ago stand giving Tom Gosden two trophies for next year’s prize giving, having won both the personal and fleet handicap version of the series.

Sunday was a superb autumn day and attracted seventeen members to the Club with the intention of having a further sail. But the wind was at its most fickle, sometimes filling in to make a race start possible and sometimes dying away completely allowing the images of the surrounding fells to be perfectly reflected in the water. This continued until lunchtime after which the race officer decided to abandon racing for the day. This leaves only the one remaining round of the Winter Series to be sailed next weekend before the long winter break commences.

Races three and four of the Winter series were held on Bassenthwaite last Sunday.� The water level had receded somewhat and winds were again light enticing eleven boats onto the Lake.� The Musto Skiff sailed by Robin Dawson is a potentially rapid boat and is handicapped accordingly but it is not designed for light winds and, although it finished ahead on the water in Race one, its lead was not enough to beat the following boats on corrected time and the race win went to Jim Christie in his Supernova from Alan Nicholson in his Solo.� Dawson finished third while the Supernova of Peter Ballard beat the GP14 of Mike Turner / Sue Watson for fourth place by a single second.

The next race produced a different result with Steve Hunt / Ruth Critchley� in their Merlin Rocket beating the Laser of Tom Gosden by a mere eight seconds.� Christie finished third and Nicholson fourth.� With the Series half completed Christie and Gosden share the lead with six points apiece whist Nicholson is third on nine points.