The Shillington Cup for Six Metres 2017/18
Round 6 Saturday April 7th
Mike Ewart is such a modest chap that there is no commentary for this event, or possibly he was still under the affect of the anesthetic from his recent knee transplant.
Mike Ewart is such a modest chap that there is no commentary for this event, or possibly he was still under the affect of the anesthetic from his recent knee transplant.
Round 5 Saturday March 10th
Again a small but select band of 6M skippers assembled in the car park and after a short survey of the lake it was quickly decided that we would track over to Paul's spit, since the south westerly breeze had left a large portion of our area in the wind shadow of the western island, where as the eastern side of the lake gave us the best options.
Weather wise we had a warm but dull day, with a very acceptable wind which, much to Goldilocks liking was never too strong nor too weak but just about spot on, although of course it did vary throughout the day, easing off slightly towards the end of the session.
Maybe not the best direction for course setting, but we settled on a reading start out into the lake, followed by a good beat to the white buoy just off our normal jetty, followed by a long run back into the channel, which we repeated twice, before a very short upwind finish.
It hardly needed the maths of the spread sheet to work out today's winner. you know that you have had a good day when you have to discard three first places although he came close to being beaten at least once, had it not been for a supersaver moment, talking of which, Colin would have had a much better day had it not been for his overfamiliarity with the buoys !
Dave Alson had a good day, gaining a second place with some good sailing, which more than made up for the slight disadvantage of sailing an older Dolphin design. The weather didn't really suite Paul's Renaissance, which really relishes a bit more of a blow. After a bit of tweaking and mast movement, Geoff's Romanza became much sweeter to sail and at last showed some potential, almost upsetting Dave's clean sweep on one occasion, but for one miss judged final leeward buoy.
To be fair all boats seemed very evenly matched, with the wonderful sight of the whole fleet running down the lake , as if they were part of a synchronised swimming team, all rounding the leeward mark in perfect order.
So to sum up, neither the tiny bit of drizzle, which sent everybody off for transmitter mitts, nor the rather muddy grass spoilt a very enjoyable competitive day's racing.
Hopefully Mike Ewart will be back soon, complete with bionic knees to keep Dave Green honest !!
Geoff Raygada
Again a small but select band of 6M skippers assembled in the car park and after a short survey of the lake it was quickly decided that we would track over to Paul's spit, since the south westerly breeze had left a large portion of our area in the wind shadow of the western island, where as the eastern side of the lake gave us the best options.
Weather wise we had a warm but dull day, with a very acceptable wind which, much to Goldilocks liking was never too strong nor too weak but just about spot on, although of course it did vary throughout the day, easing off slightly towards the end of the session.
Maybe not the best direction for course setting, but we settled on a reading start out into the lake, followed by a good beat to the white buoy just off our normal jetty, followed by a long run back into the channel, which we repeated twice, before a very short upwind finish.
It hardly needed the maths of the spread sheet to work out today's winner. you know that you have had a good day when you have to discard three first places although he came close to being beaten at least once, had it not been for a supersaver moment, talking of which, Colin would have had a much better day had it not been for his overfamiliarity with the buoys !
Dave Alson had a good day, gaining a second place with some good sailing, which more than made up for the slight disadvantage of sailing an older Dolphin design. The weather didn't really suite Paul's Renaissance, which really relishes a bit more of a blow. After a bit of tweaking and mast movement, Geoff's Romanza became much sweeter to sail and at last showed some potential, almost upsetting Dave's clean sweep on one occasion, but for one miss judged final leeward buoy.
To be fair all boats seemed very evenly matched, with the wonderful sight of the whole fleet running down the lake , as if they were part of a synchronised swimming team, all rounding the leeward mark in perfect order.
So to sum up, neither the tiny bit of drizzle, which sent everybody off for transmitter mitts, nor the rather muddy grass spoilt a very enjoyable competitive day's racing.
Hopefully Mike Ewart will be back soon, complete with bionic knees to keep Dave Green honest !!
Geoff Raygada
Round 4 Saturday February 24th
Race Report from Mike Ewart The day started off very cold and bright with a wind coming down the lake from the east island to the west island, a nice direction for course setting, seven skippers were in attendance and after a slight delay to the start as Mike and Geoff were trying to fix the safety boat (unsuccessfully found the leak but the glue was dried up and NBG) the racing started around 10.20 We raced for 15 races finishing just after 2pm, Dave Green in the main sailed impeccably only pipped to the post 5 times by Mike Kemp twice and Mike Ewart 3 times, but the racing was overall very close and a pleasure. One wrong tack and you were at the back of the fleet. Mike Kemp was going well early on but a failure of a hardly used gooseneck at the young age of 30 years curtailed his sailing fopr the day. David Alston was sailing his dolphin and had some good results towards the end of the day, overall the positions were very close apart from the Ravenna's which were loving the weather, with occasional surfing downwind as well, a good day great competition and in a good spirit. Mike |
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Round 3 Saturday January 20th
Hi Folks,
The results of Today's Six Metre Sailing are courtesy of Mike Ewart - I chickened out and started collecting entries for the RG65 Nats.
Five brave or mad souls turned up to sail six metres on a cold wet day with little or no wind, how clever is that?
We decided early on that we needed a little bit of shelter so the club gazebo came into play and it did allow us a little respite from the weather, the sailing was very close, and at times quite fickle as to where the wind would appear, it varied during the day from a little to nothing but with a relatively consistent direction coming from Russia it felt like. Dave green was on the results a runaway victor of the day but some of the finishes were quite close and there was place changing all through the fleet.
We sailed using white 1 and 3 as a start line a beat to red 8 in the bay then down to white 6 the middle of the 3 whites then up to red 7 down to red 8 and back to the finish via red 7 again, the course and the wind or lack gave us fairly long races, thus we only finished 8 when Pauls mainsheet broke so we called it a day at around 1.30 pm all quite cold and quite wet, whilst we were packing up the snow came so we were pleased we didn't actually have to sail in the snow.
Overall a good days racing Colin showed a good turn of speed Paul had trouble in the real drifters and Geoff and I made up the numbers, looking forward to the next one 24th February it will be nearly spring time.
Regards,
Mike (Kemp)
Hi Folks,
The results of Today's Six Metre Sailing are courtesy of Mike Ewart - I chickened out and started collecting entries for the RG65 Nats.
Five brave or mad souls turned up to sail six metres on a cold wet day with little or no wind, how clever is that?
We decided early on that we needed a little bit of shelter so the club gazebo came into play and it did allow us a little respite from the weather, the sailing was very close, and at times quite fickle as to where the wind would appear, it varied during the day from a little to nothing but with a relatively consistent direction coming from Russia it felt like. Dave green was on the results a runaway victor of the day but some of the finishes were quite close and there was place changing all through the fleet.
We sailed using white 1 and 3 as a start line a beat to red 8 in the bay then down to white 6 the middle of the 3 whites then up to red 7 down to red 8 and back to the finish via red 7 again, the course and the wind or lack gave us fairly long races, thus we only finished 8 when Pauls mainsheet broke so we called it a day at around 1.30 pm all quite cold and quite wet, whilst we were packing up the snow came so we were pleased we didn't actually have to sail in the snow.
Overall a good days racing Colin showed a good turn of speed Paul had trouble in the real drifters and Geoff and I made up the numbers, looking forward to the next one 24th February it will be nearly spring time.
Regards,
Mike (Kemp)
Round 2 Saturday December 16th
Hi Folks,
Today's gathering of Six Metre yachts took place on the spit, largely to dodge the patches of ice that had formed overnight in the right hand bay and in the lee of the left hand island. It also put us in a much better place for the wind, which started off light and ended nearly four hours later with just enough to get the boats back to the landing stage for recovery.
Five club members were joined by a visitor and former club member, Ian Holt, who took over Mike Ewart's 'No 1 yacht' and proceeded to share the first and second places with regular Dave Green. This display came to an end after race 8 when some mystical radio problem showed itself - Mike later identified it as likely to be in the transmitter. The rest of us fought out the remaining places in each race with positions changing all around the course extents between Orange Five and White Eight in the channel between the right hand island and the spit. At times there was a collection of yachts around the various marks of the course; there was even a succession of yachts 'missing' the windward mark, only by less than a boat width. It must be something to do with the way the mark appears on a completely flat piece of water when there was only just enough wind to move the yacht: one after another the yacht appearded to be on the lay-line to the mark, only to glide gently by it on the wrong side.
It was cold, sometimes wet with light rain, muddy, and frequently in complete silence as skippers concentrated on maintaining the motion of their yacht, but it was an enjoyable morning.
Regards,
Mike (Kemp)
Sounds great fun
Hi Folks,
Today's gathering of Six Metre yachts took place on the spit, largely to dodge the patches of ice that had formed overnight in the right hand bay and in the lee of the left hand island. It also put us in a much better place for the wind, which started off light and ended nearly four hours later with just enough to get the boats back to the landing stage for recovery.
Five club members were joined by a visitor and former club member, Ian Holt, who took over Mike Ewart's 'No 1 yacht' and proceeded to share the first and second places with regular Dave Green. This display came to an end after race 8 when some mystical radio problem showed itself - Mike later identified it as likely to be in the transmitter. The rest of us fought out the remaining places in each race with positions changing all around the course extents between Orange Five and White Eight in the channel between the right hand island and the spit. At times there was a collection of yachts around the various marks of the course; there was even a succession of yachts 'missing' the windward mark, only by less than a boat width. It must be something to do with the way the mark appears on a completely flat piece of water when there was only just enough wind to move the yacht: one after another the yacht appearded to be on the lay-line to the mark, only to glide gently by it on the wrong side.
It was cold, sometimes wet with light rain, muddy, and frequently in complete silence as skippers concentrated on maintaining the motion of their yacht, but it was an enjoyable morning.
Regards,
Mike (Kemp)
Sounds great fun
Round 1 Saturday November 18th
Mike Ewart Reports
Hi Guys,
A day where the sailing was better than the weather, our first club six metre event held in a drizzly not much wind day.
It was great to see the sixes out again at the inaugural meeting of the 2017/2018 six metre series for the Shillington Cup, we had a little discussion amongst ourselves on how we wanted the series to happen and some ground rules were set.
1) Timing we agreed to run either 16 races or from 10am to 2 pm which ever was the sooner.
2) The event to be named the Shillington Cup, and to be an annual ongoing event competed for by 2 Islands members.
3) The event to be open to visitors, but this is providing they do not exceed the total of 3 visits to the water in total
before becoming a member, a visitor will be included in the days results but his results not to effect the series in any
way.
4) The winner of the event to be the skipper with the best score after a total of 3 discards over the year.
5) Minimum number of competitors the event will run and be included in the annual results providing at least 3 yachts
start the days racing.
Now to the days racing we actually started a bit late today as there were a number of items to chat about before we got on the water, Dave G didn't start off too well as he had a recurrence of his problems with the yacht losing control and over the day various things were done to sort this out new batteries new tranny and prayers I believe. Yours truly had a good day, Christina was on form and I managed to pick some good shifts throughout the day, not withstanding his problems Dave Green came a good 2nd overall, but the racing was such that in the light winds everybody had a turn at the front of the fleet, Paul Risdale with his pink Renaissance was going very well especially as the Renaissance s renowned as a strong wind design, Geoffs' Romanza was definitely faster than Geoff today, and Colin was going well in patches.
Most noticeable was the levels of concentration apparent in the light wind that prevailed for most of the day with the favoured shifts changing at the drop of a hat, mind you hats and wet gear was the dress of the day.
An excellent start to the series the rest of you who weren't there have got to get your boats and calender sorted out and be there for the next one on December 16th see the calender on the club website.
Thanks for a good days sailing gentlemen
Mike
Mike Ewart Reports
Hi Guys,
A day where the sailing was better than the weather, our first club six metre event held in a drizzly not much wind day.
It was great to see the sixes out again at the inaugural meeting of the 2017/2018 six metre series for the Shillington Cup, we had a little discussion amongst ourselves on how we wanted the series to happen and some ground rules were set.
1) Timing we agreed to run either 16 races or from 10am to 2 pm which ever was the sooner.
2) The event to be named the Shillington Cup, and to be an annual ongoing event competed for by 2 Islands members.
3) The event to be open to visitors, but this is providing they do not exceed the total of 3 visits to the water in total
before becoming a member, a visitor will be included in the days results but his results not to effect the series in any
way.
4) The winner of the event to be the skipper with the best score after a total of 3 discards over the year.
5) Minimum number of competitors the event will run and be included in the annual results providing at least 3 yachts
start the days racing.
Now to the days racing we actually started a bit late today as there were a number of items to chat about before we got on the water, Dave G didn't start off too well as he had a recurrence of his problems with the yacht losing control and over the day various things were done to sort this out new batteries new tranny and prayers I believe. Yours truly had a good day, Christina was on form and I managed to pick some good shifts throughout the day, not withstanding his problems Dave Green came a good 2nd overall, but the racing was such that in the light winds everybody had a turn at the front of the fleet, Paul Risdale with his pink Renaissance was going very well especially as the Renaissance s renowned as a strong wind design, Geoffs' Romanza was definitely faster than Geoff today, and Colin was going well in patches.
Most noticeable was the levels of concentration apparent in the light wind that prevailed for most of the day with the favoured shifts changing at the drop of a hat, mind you hats and wet gear was the dress of the day.
An excellent start to the series the rest of you who weren't there have got to get your boats and calender sorted out and be there for the next one on December 16th see the calender on the club website.
Thanks for a good days sailing gentlemen
Mike
