Tinker Weekend

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While the Tinker fleet held one of their annual rallies at Bass, some of our RS fleet ventured to Ullswater for their RS open. Robbie D and Toggle came out best from the competitive (if small) fleet. Counting four results from five races sailed they won with� 6 points (inc 3 1sts) from local helm Neil ? who also had 6 points. Scumper and Zefer were 3rd and William and Lesley 4th. A busy, frustrating, (the 400s started behind and had to sail through the fleet of 28 RS200s) but enjoyable day’s racing.

Sunday – A glorious day for sailing – a true southerly and sunshine. Club fleets endured an asymmetric windward leeward course (good for the asymmetrics, but Rhonwen wasn’t impressed in her laser!) and were home and well through their lunch before the tinkers finished their race.

The breeze eased a little for the afternoon, but the course that Shunty set BEFORE coming ashore for lunch didn’t prove to be the best thing since sliced bread (The best leg was from the finish to the shore!). Robbie D couldn’t stay away from the water and took out the Topaz with Ethan. Old habits die hard, and the sail ended with a capsize, but Toggle was nowhere to be seen!

The tinkers’ travellers trophy went, as ever to David Warren. Malcolm Ellwood was 2nd and Dennis Aldred 3rd

2 Up Trophy for the season went to Stewart and Barbara Warren, and the most improved helm was Nigel Marshall

David Warren receiving his trophy from Vice Commodore and OD for the weekend, Steve Hunt

Overall results for the weekend

TINKER TROPHY

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1   2   3   4 Pts
 1  167828  I MACPHERSON  LAS          1   2   2   6   5
 2   91029  R BLACKBURN   RS400        2   1   7   4   7
 3  174889  S HALL        LASER RADI   3   4   5   5  12
 4   13655  N LEWIS       GP         DNS DNS   1   2  17
 5  173813  P BURNELL     LAS          5 DNS   6   7  18
 6    3520  S BROOKES     FF         DNS DNS   4   1  19
 7     937  W CARRUTHERS  RS400      DNS DNS   3   3  20
 8    1125  JoHALLIDAY    RS400        6 DNS   9   8  23
 9     103  A NICHOLSON   VARIO        7   3 DNS DNS  24
10   21863  D TODHUNTER   MS           8   5 DNS DNS  27
11  125514  R BRYCE       LAS          4 DNS RTD DNS  28
12     114  T FLYNN       M16        DNS DNS   8   9  31
13     924  S MCCLENNAN   FF         DNS   6 DNS DNS  34

                     Points for RTD =  9   7  10  10
                     Points for DSQ =  9   7  10  10
                     Points for DNS = 14

 3 races to count

Weekend Sailing

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Apart from a taster session on what must have been one of the wettest day’s of the summer, the OD (or was it Herb) thought better of it when it came to racing. The wind and waves had picked up, and coupled with the rain, apathy set in and racing was abandoned. Of course the wind did ease, and the rain eventually stop, but by then it was too late. However, as you may have noticed from the webcam, Steve Hunt did venture out. He reckons Rich Critchley tried (but failed miserably) to capsize them.

Things didn’t look too promising on Sunday morning. Apathy was embedding itself in everyone’s minds. However, Neil had taken the cover off the boat, and put the jib up, only for everyone to find that he was tuning his boat!

Looking down the wind, we could see the tops of the waves, which is not encouraging! The race did start about Noon, and there was some good racing. Robbie D and Toggle seem to be capsize kings for the day (makes a change from Roy) capsizing once before the start, and then more crucially, just coming into the leeward mark – with their mast in the mud, they lost two places and Steve Hunt, with Sam Hall crewing, won from William and Lesley.

In the GPs, some match racing was the order of the day for Hugh and Nigel. Hugh went on to win.

In the afternoon a brave few ventured out for the Banana Stakes. The winds were blustery again and the kindly OD sent us all around the lake (as you do for pennants!)� The OD and Herb reckoned that the best plane of the day went to Rhonwen & Hugh who planed for about 10 minutes followed by 10 minutes doing 360 degree capsizes! They were not the only ones to capsize – apart from Keith Thomas & Jonathan Connor in a fifteen all the other boats capsized during the race – even William & Lesley who crashed and burned big style!� Rory Yardley, had a good leg down to the bottom of the lake – shame he was hading for 12 instead of 13! Steve Hunt with Sam Hall crewing were first home, but it was Keith & Jonathan who won after personal handicaps were used to calculate the results.

Check out Hugh’s video from last week (Could be painfully slow if you don’t use broadband – Sorry!)

HANDICAP FLEET SKIDDAW TROPHY

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1   2   3   4   5 Pts
 1    1298  S HUNT        RS400        3   1   2   3   1   4
 2    1072  R DAWSON      RS400        1   3   3   1   3   5
 3     937  W CARRUTHERS  RS400        6   2   5 DNS   2   9
 4    1148  N CURRIE      RS400        2   4   6   4   4  10
 5   91029  R BLACKBURN   RS400      DNS DNS RTD   5   5  20
 6  174889  S HALL        LAS          8   6   8 DNS DNS  22
 7   13885  M FAIRLAMB    GP         DNS DNS   1   2 DNS  24
 8    1049  M SOMERVILLE  RS400        5   5 DNS DNS DNS  30
 9  167828  I MACPHERSON  LAS          4   7 DNS DNS DNS  32
10    9558  P HODGKINS    B14          7 RTD DNS DNS DNS  37
11  160516  T CHITTENDEN  LAS          9   8 DNS DNS DNS  38
12  130338  RiCRITCHLEY   LAS         OD DNS DNS DNS DNS  43
13     913  JoHARDIE      RS200      DNS DNS   4 DNS DNS  44
14  173813  P BURNELL     LAS        DNS DNS  OD DNS DNS  45
15    3520  S BROOKES     FF         DNS DNS   7 DNS DNS  49
16   40892  J HEMINGWAY   TOP         11 DNS DNS DNS DNS  51
17     924  S MCCLENNAN   FF          10 DNS DNS DNS DNS  52
18      41  K HEMMINGWAY  OPPPIE      12 DNS DNS DNS DNS  52
19    9382  C HEMMINGWAY  RSFEVA      13 DNS DNS DNS DNS  53

                     Points for RTD = 14  10  10   6   6
                     Points for DSQ = 14  10  10   6   6
                     Points for DNS = 20

 3 races to count
GP14 AUTUMN CUP

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1   2   3   4   5 Pts
 1   13176  D LAWSON      GP           1   1 DNS DNS DNS   2
 2   13905  H GODFREY     GP           2   2 DNS DNS   1   3
 3   13655  N LEWIS       GP         DNS DNS DNS DNS   2   6

                     Points for RTD =  3   3   0   0   3
                     Points for DSQ =  3   3   0   0   3
                     Points for DNS =  4

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BANANA STAKES

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1 Pts
 1    2504  K THOMAS      FF           1   1
 2    1298  S HUNT        RS400        2   2
 3   13905  H GODFREY     GP           3   3
 4   13655  N LEWIS       GP           4   4
 5     937  W CARRUTHERS  RS400      RTD   7
 5     338  R YARDLEY     VARIO      RTD   7

                     Points for RTD =  7
                     Points for DSQ =  7
                     Points for DNS =  7

 1 races to count

Weekend Series

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On Sunday, the forecast wind came in and created many thrills and spills. Roy was quick to point out that his capsizes in the morning didn’t count – the first was before the start, and the second, during the race, was on purpose to avoid a collision. So for the afternoon was he going to make up for it? Another capsize before the start did not count (so he says), but the one (could have been more) during the race did. Ah well, practice makes perfect?!

It seems that many others were practicing as well. Neil Currie with Sam Hall crewing went swimming in the first race and in the second race they went trawling� (followed by another capsize later on). Don’t know how many others capsized, but according to Gary on one of the rescue boats, they were playing bingo with each boat that capsized – he just needed William and Lesley to go in for a full house. No such luck there then!

Andy and Bean were due to sail the Yellow Peril’s (new nickname?) F15, but the dancing, or was it the Stella, took its toll and they weren’t quite ready for the morning race. They did make an appearance in the afternoon race, but only in the baby Bates on rescue cover (or perhaps just taking some snaps of the boats)

The strong winds, apart from proving hard work in the hour long races, did have many spectacular reaches to make it all worthwhile.

Monday’s forecast was for more wind, but things didn’t look promising at 11:15 when the heavens opened and there was a monsoon like downpour. However, it passed through and the wind seemed light until just after the start when the true north westerly started to hit home. As with Sunday, there were some scary spinnaker legs, and the beats were hard work, but there weren’t so many capsizes (was that because Roy didn’t venture out?! :). Instead of Joe falling out, it was Scumper’s turn this time, and he had to practice front crawl to get back towards the quickly disappearing boat! Neil bravely fended off Scumper by luffing him high on the penultimate mark only to be caught tacking in Scumper’s water as he rounded the mark resulting in a 720 penalty, and losing a place.

The GPs series was won, after close racing, by Dave and Lynn from Hugh and Rhonwen with three bullets.

After lunch the winds increased even more, and there was some more close racing in the handicap fleet, especially between Robbie D and Scumper, but it was Robbie who won the race and the series.

In the FF fleet, Mike Moore with a nervous birthday girl (well almost) crewing, had four straight wins, and a blown out spinnaker, over Keith Thomas who had coaxed Graham Kirkpatrick from retirement to crew on one of the windiest days of the season!

The Smith family had a fleet of their own for the final race of the weekend, when they took out five toppers. Brotherly love didn’t stop Bean having to do turns after the start. Emma recovered well from one near capsize, but not the second!

The cruising fleet from Southport seemed to enjoy their weekend, and some of them took part in the racing, some of whom got to know the rescue crews very well! Perhaps they’ll be back for more next year?

FLYING FREE

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1   2   3   4 Pts
 1    3473  M MOORE       FF           1   1   1   1   3
 2    2504  K THOMAS      FF           2   2   2   2   6
 3    1901  J PRESTRIDGE  FF         DNS RTD DNS DNS  15
 3     924  S MCCLENNAN   FF         DNS RTD DNS DNS  15

                     Points for RTD =  3   5   3   3
                     Points for DSQ =  3   5   3   3
                     Points for DNS =  5

 3 races to count
AITKIN CUP

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1   2   3   4 Pts
 1   13176  D LAWSON      GP           1   1   1 DNS   2
 2   13905  H GODFREY     GP           2   2   2 DNS   4
 3   13118  V BELL        GP           3   3   3 DNS   6
 4   13867  D NICHOLSON   GP         RTD RTD  OD DNS   9
 5   13733  A HODGKINS    GP           4 DNS DNS DNS  11
 6   11721  R RHODES      GP         DNS RTD DNS DNS  14

                     Points for RTD =  6   7   4   0
                     Points for DSQ =  6   7   4   0
                     Points for DNS =  7

 2 races to count
AUGUST TROPHY

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1   2   3   4 Pts
 1    1072  R DAWSON      RS400        1   1   2   1   3
 2     937  W CARRUTHERS  RS400        2   2   5   4   8
 3    1148  N CURRIE      RS400        4   3   4   5  11
 4    1298  S HUNT        RS400      DNS DNS   1   3  17
 5    1049  M SOMERVILLE  RS400      DNS DNS   3   2  18
 6   91029  R BLACKBURN   RS400        3 RTD DNS DNS  21
 7     338  R YARDLEY     VARIO        5 RTD DNS DNS  23
 8    1125  JoHALLIDAY    RS400      RTD RTD DNS DNS  25
 9    6905  N GARRISON    DART       DNS DNS   6   6  25
10     114  T FLYNN       M16        DNS DNS   7   7  27
11   21863  D TODHUNTER   MS           6 DNS DNS DNS  32
12    1140  J CHRISTIE    LAS        DNS DNS RTD DNS  35

                     Points for RTD =  7   5   9   8
                     Points for DSQ =  7   5   9   8
                     Points for DNS = 13

 3 races to count
MJM

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 Pts
 1   13905  H GODFREY     GP         DNS DNS   5   2 DNS DNS   2   1   1   3  14
 2   13885  M FAIRLAMB    GP         DNS DNS   3   3   1   1   3   3 DNS DNS  14
 3    1072  R DAWSON      RS400       OD DNS   1   1 DNS DNS   5   6   5   1  16
 4    3473  M MOORE       FF           1   1 DNS DNS DNS DNS   6   2   3   7  20
 5     937  W CARRUTHERS  RS400      DNS DNS   2   4 DNS DNS   4   4   7   4  25
 6  174889  S HALL        LAS          3   2   6   8   5   2 RTD RTD   8   8  26
 7   91029  R BLACKBURN   RS400        2 DNS DNS DNS  OD DNS DNS RTD  10   6  58
 8     103  A NICHOLSON   VARIO      DNS DNS DNS DNS   7   5 DNS DNS  12  11  87
 9  161866  M LORD        LAS        DNS DNS   8   9 DNS DNS DNS DNS   9  10  88
10   13733  A HODGKINS    GP         DNS DNS DNS   5   2 DNS DNS DNS   4 DNS  89
11   13867  D NICHOLSON   GP         DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS   7 DNS   2   5  92
12    1125  JoHALLIDAY    RS400      DNS DNS   7   7 DNS DNS DNS DNS RTD DNS 105
13    1298  S HUNT        RS400      DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS   1   5 DNS DNS 110
14  167828  I MACPHERSON  LAS        DNS DNS DNS DNS   4   3 DNS DNS DNS DNS 111
15    1049  M SOMERVILLE  RS400      DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS   6   2 112
16    3521  K JAMIESON    FF         DNS DNS DNS DNS   6   4 DNS DNS DNS DNS 114
17    9558  P HODGKINS    B14        DNS DNS   4   6 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 114
18  913467  M WRIGHT      GP         DNS DNS DNS DNS   8   6 DNS DNS DNS DNS 118
19    1140  J CHRISTIE    LAS        DNS DNS DNS DNS   3 DNS RTD DNS DNS DNS 119
20  173813  P BURNELL     LAS        DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS   8 RTD DNS DNS 123
21    6905  N GARRISON    DART       DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS  11   9 124
22  122174  P DILLON      LAS        DNS DNS DNS  10 DNS DNS DNS RTD DNS DNS 125
23   70142  T SMITH       MS         DNS DNS  OD DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 133
24     338  R YARDLEY     VARIO      DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS   7 DNS DNS 137
25 9130338  A ROBERTS     LAS        DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS RTD DNS DNS DNS 142

                     Points for RTD =  4   3   9  11   9   7  12  11  13  12
                     Points for DSQ =  4   3   9  11   9   7  12  11  13  12
                     Points for DNS = 26

 6 races to count

Masquerade

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It’s my party and I’ll DANCE if I want to could have been Sally’s motto for her birthday bash – 50? Never. (Well not yet!!). A request for attendees to wear masks resulted in an interesting interpretation by many. Even the Southport cruising visitors, got in the spirit and and brought masks (and Ayatollah Khomeini – or was that a mask?!). The disco kept everyone dancing, including the Bass Stella boys, until late. Jess sang for her mum (and everyone else of course), and whether Toggle was kept away from the the mic, we can but guess…..

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Chris Graham

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Photo courtesy and copyright of dephoto.co.uk All sailors who have had the misfortune to capsize and require rescue assistance over the last couple of seasons will be aware of rescue boat driver Chris Graham.

It is with great sadness that we learnt of his tragic death in a car accident early on Friday morning. Chris was 19.

Chris’ funeral was held on Friday 1st September in Christ Church, Stricklandgate, Penrith and afterwards at the Conservative Club. Family flowers only. Any donations, via the club please, will be passed on to Cockermouth Mountain Rescue of which Chris’ grandfather was a founder member

Bass Watch

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With the schools regatta over Club sailing was somewhat quieter this weekend. There was a good, warm breeze from the South. OD Pete Nuttall was determined to start on time, but that must have been his own version of Chico Time (Pedro Time?), because it didn’t!

In the first race, the course came back to zero and caused some issues as the wind swung around Sale Fell and the fleet had to beat into the mark. Robbie D lost out to Shunty and William but with the GPs and FFs close by they would win on handicap

The course for the second race stayed in the southerly breeze which led to some spectacular spinnaker legs. With boats capsizing everywhere the rescue crews were kept very busy. After everything was packed away, a call from the coastguard resulted in rescue craft being re-launched to help out some sailors that were in distress at the southern end of the lake. With the air-sea rescue helicopter in attendance, a second rescue craft was despatched with Toggle Hasslehoff aboard to recover the dinghy which the sailors had abandoned

Sunday’s racing was held in stronger winds, but they were still curving around Sale Fell reinforcing the need to stay, or get into, in the stronger gusts to keep driving. A knotted mainsheet resulted in Robbie D losing a place at one mark because he couldn’t bear away. The wind picked up in the afternoon and there were several capsizes (most of them by Roy and Kayla), but Shunty was a casualty when he tried to use his gennaker to catch Robin up and couldn’t handle the gust. Judith Currie had opted out of the last race, so Sam took the front seat in Neil’s RS. While hoisting the gennaker, they ended up going trawling, and Sam had to recover the sail. We’re not sure whether Sam ended up in the water because he fell or jumped!

Frustration in the Sun

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Everyone should have been delighted that there was a weekend of sun with a warm wind, but for the sailors the biggest frustration was that the wind was by no means steady. The first race on Saturday had boats beating on three of the four legs. Neil Currie had taken an early lead with William not too far behind, but on the only leg that wasn’t a beat the others caught up and there was several place changes. Neil had to settle for a second to Robbie D, while William ended up fifth behind Steve and Scumper. While waiting between races several sailors opted to cool off by trying some barefoot water skiing (not easy at 2-3 knots from an RS!). When Toggle tried, he lost his balance and catapulted backwards into the water.

Sunday’s racing was around the lake – with a north westerly it was never going to be an easy race, but challenging was an understatement. There were gusts, and holes, and shifts, and down draughts. After 50 mins Steve Hunt was first to mark 13 some 20-30m ahead of William, by mark 12 he was 5 mins ahead and the GPs and Mike Moore in his F15 were all mulling around. The wind started to settle down for the beat back up the lake but Steve lost a lot of ground finishing just 2.5 mins ahead of William. Unfortunately the others were still in easy reach of the finish and the race was won by Dave Lawson with Mike Fairlamb crewing

JUBILEE SAILING TRUST

PN    Boat  Helm          Class        1 Pts
 1   13176  D LAWSON      GP           1   1
 2   13905  H GODFREY     GP           2   2
 3   45096  TOP VISITOR   TOPPER       3   3
 4    3473  M MOORE       FF           4   4
 5    1298  S HUNT        RS400        5   5
 6    1658  VISITOR       BYTE         6   6
 7     937  W CARRUTHERS  RS400        7   7
 8    1140  J CHRISTIE    LAS          8   8
 9  160516  T CHITTENDEN  LAS          9   9
10  167828  I MACPHERSON  LAS         10  10
11    3521  K JAMIESON    FF         RTD  12

                     Points for RTD = 12
                     Points for DSQ = 12
                     Points for DNS = 12

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Time for a Change

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The ‘Ladies, crews and junior’ race was held last Thursday in somewhat challenging wind conditions. 13 boats took part with many normal crews moving to the back of their boats to try out some helming. Unfortunately for some, the move from the back to the front of the boat for the normal helms proved a bit confusing – Toggle spent ages stationary at buoy 3 waiting for Robbie D to sort out his kite! Noting the strong wind and the forthcoming NSSA regatta, Sam put his radial rig on his laser. This proved to be a good decision as he was third overall and winner of the junior race. Ken Bell took the helm in the GP, but Val decided against flying the kite. Again this proved to be the right decision as they were second overall and won the crews race. Despite having to avoid Rhonwen who did a really rubbish tack (Rhonwen’s words!!) in her water at buoy zero, the overall winner was Emma Powell who helmed an Enterprise with Andy Smith crewing. Emma takes the ladies prize for the first time.

Enterprise Champs

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Congratulations to Mark Ninnim and Emma Powell following their recent runaway success at the Scottish area championships which were held at Berwick. Four straight wins – what else could anyone wish for? Well done!

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