TIRYC Cup 2017/18
Round 11 - March 25th
Good afternoon All
Please see below the results for todays TIRYC Trophy competition. A good fleet of 7 boats out today with Mike Kemp away representing us at a National Ranking event and Mike Ewart without a driver to get him to the lake
The wind was as forecast NNE and light to medium. This gave us a good course ‘up and down’ the lake with a good long beat for our two laps. It was nice to see Alan Smedley out with his new IOM although he had some receiver issues to start with missing the first three races. He did go on to win race 8 with John Howell (who sold him the boat) reminding him that this was not in the contract of sale! Well done Alan. The top three boats were ‘tip for tat’ all taking turns to fill the top three places. The final results after discards gave Dave Green the win with 19 points, John Howell second with 20 points and KC third with 22 points. Very close with just one mistake making a big difference, we all had them
It was relatively warm and bright and all in all a very pleasant morning racing with 12 races completed.
Keith
Good afternoon All
Please see below the results for todays TIRYC Trophy competition. A good fleet of 7 boats out today with Mike Kemp away representing us at a National Ranking event and Mike Ewart without a driver to get him to the lake
The wind was as forecast NNE and light to medium. This gave us a good course ‘up and down’ the lake with a good long beat for our two laps. It was nice to see Alan Smedley out with his new IOM although he had some receiver issues to start with missing the first three races. He did go on to win race 8 with John Howell (who sold him the boat) reminding him that this was not in the contract of sale! Well done Alan. The top three boats were ‘tip for tat’ all taking turns to fill the top three places. The final results after discards gave Dave Green the win with 19 points, John Howell second with 20 points and KC third with 22 points. Very close with just one mistake making a big difference, we all had them
It was relatively warm and bright and all in all a very pleasant morning racing with 12 races completed.
Keith
Round 10 - Sunday March 4th
Good afternoon All
After the cancellation of Wednesday and Friday sailing last week some of us were keen to sail on Sunday, well just three of us in truth!
Dave Green, Rob Tottey and KC arrived in good time. At the first glimpse of the lake it seemed that we were destined to abandon the attempt. However on closer inspection although the edges of the lake near to the landing stages had a layer of what can best be described as slush (watery ice) the middle of the lake out to and beyond the perimeter buoys was clear. Also the buoys to the right of the landing stages were also clear
So we cobbled together a course which needed a running start, but with just three boats that was OK. We ran out to the far buoy towards the hotel (latterly using the next one to the west as a spreader) and back to red 8 to our right. This gave us something of a beat although the wind shifted towards the end of the session and it became a bit of a ‘follow my leader’
However we were out and sailing. As can be seen Dave was in dominant form although KC was at time hot on his heels and in one race we were separated by literally a front bumper. Rob manfully followed us round with a satisfying second place in Race 7 Yay!
Thats about it, with three competing we have a result to count
Cheers
Keith
Good afternoon All
After the cancellation of Wednesday and Friday sailing last week some of us were keen to sail on Sunday, well just three of us in truth!
Dave Green, Rob Tottey and KC arrived in good time. At the first glimpse of the lake it seemed that we were destined to abandon the attempt. However on closer inspection although the edges of the lake near to the landing stages had a layer of what can best be described as slush (watery ice) the middle of the lake out to and beyond the perimeter buoys was clear. Also the buoys to the right of the landing stages were also clear
So we cobbled together a course which needed a running start, but with just three boats that was OK. We ran out to the far buoy towards the hotel (latterly using the next one to the west as a spreader) and back to red 8 to our right. This gave us something of a beat although the wind shifted towards the end of the session and it became a bit of a ‘follow my leader’
However we were out and sailing. As can be seen Dave was in dominant form although KC was at time hot on his heels and in one race we were separated by literally a front bumper. Rob manfully followed us round with a satisfying second place in Race 7 Yay!
Thats about it, with three competing we have a result to count
Cheers
Keith
Round 9 - Sunday February 25th
Hi Folks,
As with the previous two days this weekend, the wind was from an Easterly or South Easterly direction which meant that we had a different set of 'island shadows' and streams to deal with. The course was from white 1 & 2 just off the left hand platform, out to the middle of the five whites lined up around the front of eastern island, off to the second of the orange marks and down to Orange 7 to our left; all to port. Using the port rounding of orange 7 led indirectly to several significant 'give way' situations where boats coming down the 'run' failed to keep clear of boats making their way back up to windward: with everything just in front of the skippers there shouldn't really have been any difficulty - but I suppose that's just my opinion showing through in this report.
The wind, being borderline 'change to B rig' strength caused numerous borderline 'out of control' situations, I was just thankful that my Fraktal seems to be remarkably stable with its rudder in the air even though I couldn't change direction until it returned to the water.
Only two skippers avoided missing at least one race due to rig failure of some sort: Keith C. was really on form and only failed to win just two of the dozen races we fitted in between 10 and 12. Mike K. finished second overall after managing to stay on the water throughout, delayed in one race by retrieving to empty a considerable quantity of water from the hull having forgotten to put the drain plug in before launching at the start of the morning. Richard was slow to start, but came good in the latter half, having fixed the odd gremlin: Mike S. suffered a failing backstay which brought his morning to an early end and Dave Green retired as well after his boat had taken a heavier pounding than normal.
Mike
Hi Folks,
As with the previous two days this weekend, the wind was from an Easterly or South Easterly direction which meant that we had a different set of 'island shadows' and streams to deal with. The course was from white 1 & 2 just off the left hand platform, out to the middle of the five whites lined up around the front of eastern island, off to the second of the orange marks and down to Orange 7 to our left; all to port. Using the port rounding of orange 7 led indirectly to several significant 'give way' situations where boats coming down the 'run' failed to keep clear of boats making their way back up to windward: with everything just in front of the skippers there shouldn't really have been any difficulty - but I suppose that's just my opinion showing through in this report.
The wind, being borderline 'change to B rig' strength caused numerous borderline 'out of control' situations, I was just thankful that my Fraktal seems to be remarkably stable with its rudder in the air even though I couldn't change direction until it returned to the water.
Only two skippers avoided missing at least one race due to rig failure of some sort: Keith C. was really on form and only failed to win just two of the dozen races we fitted in between 10 and 12. Mike K. finished second overall after managing to stay on the water throughout, delayed in one race by retrieving to empty a considerable quantity of water from the hull having forgotten to put the drain plug in before launching at the start of the morning. Richard was slow to start, but came good in the latter half, having fixed the odd gremlin: Mike S. suffered a failing backstay which brought his morning to an early end and Dave Green retired as well after his boat had taken a heavier pounding than normal.
Mike
Sunday February 18th - Round 8
Good afternoon All
Seven IOM’s out to play today with a few absences from regulars who are maybe on half term duties or for other reasons. In particular the front runners of John Howell, Dave Green and Mike Kemp were away allowing those of us lower down the running order to have a chance of glory!
For once it was quite warm with a gentle but reasonable steady breeze albeit from the South. However we were able to set a leeward/ windward course which certainly gave opportunities for strategy and precision to play a part in places changing on the beats. KC squeaked home by one point from David Alston with Richard in third place with a couple too many 5th places. His new boat (Vision) is however performing well in Richard's hands (thumbs)
Cheers
Keith
Good afternoon All
Seven IOM’s out to play today with a few absences from regulars who are maybe on half term duties or for other reasons. In particular the front runners of John Howell, Dave Green and Mike Kemp were away allowing those of us lower down the running order to have a chance of glory!
For once it was quite warm with a gentle but reasonable steady breeze albeit from the South. However we were able to set a leeward/ windward course which certainly gave opportunities for strategy and precision to play a part in places changing on the beats. KC squeaked home by one point from David Alston with Richard in third place with a couple too many 5th places. His new boat (Vision) is however performing well in Richard's hands (thumbs)
Cheers
Keith
Sunday February 4th - Round 7
“In the absence of any of the normal “Gaffers” we managed to assemble a score sheet, clip board, starter and finally a pen that worked.
On a bright but brisk morning the wind was in our faces from across the lake so a course was set that took us from a starting line using the edge of the left hand jetty and white 3 out to the windward mark just off the right hand island back via a spreader to orange 7 in the bay to our left and back though the starting line, before repeating the course.
There was a delay at that point as the strengthening wind caused everybody who had a “B” suite to change. (I really must get in the habit of taking it with me).
John Howell showed his normal mastery of the conditions over the morning, as you can see from the score sheet, losing only only two races. Rob Tottey managed his first win with his BritPop, (sure he will buy drinks all round next time at the Old Beams) . I managed to take one race when the wind dropped for a while by using my larger sail area to good effect.
Several skippers suffered mechanical problems, Dave Green, normally a front runner, suffered a total power failure. His boat took some time to meander around Furzton before ending up in the far right hand corner of the lake. He tried again with a fresh battery only to suffer the same problem as soon as the boat entered the water. Stephen spent some time on the jetty with his boat and then disappeared, probably an attack of common sense that caused him to seek a warmer place. Paul had problems with his jib at the end but stayed to use his starter for the last race.
The “B” rig was probably the correct one for the morning as John Howell showed.
Richard”
“In the absence of any of the normal “Gaffers” we managed to assemble a score sheet, clip board, starter and finally a pen that worked.
On a bright but brisk morning the wind was in our faces from across the lake so a course was set that took us from a starting line using the edge of the left hand jetty and white 3 out to the windward mark just off the right hand island back via a spreader to orange 7 in the bay to our left and back though the starting line, before repeating the course.
There was a delay at that point as the strengthening wind caused everybody who had a “B” suite to change. (I really must get in the habit of taking it with me).
John Howell showed his normal mastery of the conditions over the morning, as you can see from the score sheet, losing only only two races. Rob Tottey managed his first win with his BritPop, (sure he will buy drinks all round next time at the Old Beams) . I managed to take one race when the wind dropped for a while by using my larger sail area to good effect.
Several skippers suffered mechanical problems, Dave Green, normally a front runner, suffered a total power failure. His boat took some time to meander around Furzton before ending up in the far right hand corner of the lake. He tried again with a fresh battery only to suffer the same problem as soon as the boat entered the water. Stephen spent some time on the jetty with his boat and then disappeared, probably an attack of common sense that caused him to seek a warmer place. Paul had problems with his jib at the end but stayed to use his starter for the last race.
The “B” rig was probably the correct one for the morning as John Howell showed.
Richard”
Round 6 January 28th
Hi Folks,
The temperature was up, just about in double figures, and the wind was in double figures too - every now and then anyway. Nominally from the South West but when 'filtered' through all those houses and around the left hand island it was broadly in the SW direction and anywhere from 'becalmed' to 'rudders waving in the air'. As a number of us were loth to sail from the spit a course was set with a port tack start across a line between Orange 6 and a post somewhere around the right hand end of the right hand launching platform. From there we headed to White 3 and then to White 1, close to the left hand launching platform, Then it was off to White 6, off the spit, and back up to Orange 7 before returning to White 6 and back to finish between White 3 and the edge of the LH platform.
Apart from the first 'dodgy' port tack approach to the first mark we had a couple of good, challenging, beats and deceptive runs where the wind saw yachts becalmed one moment and on the verge of broaching a few seconds later. The course gave plenty of opportunities for making and loosing places between windward and leeward marks; again there were some very close finishes with places being decided by a few centimetres - or less!
The fleet of ten yachts was reduced occasionally due to rigging failures. Geoff had backstay problems and returned to the water carrying 'B' rig but, unfortunately for him, the wind was not consistently strong enough to give him an advantage even though some of us considered changing down at times. Mike Ewart withdrew a few races later when his winch line parted, not something that is easily repaired in the time of a couple of races.
As is becoming a feature of our club meetings, competition was pretty close although there were only two tied scores: Mike Ewart took this tie by way of his best 5th place compared with Geoff's best of 7th.
Regards,
Mike
Hi Folks,
The temperature was up, just about in double figures, and the wind was in double figures too - every now and then anyway. Nominally from the South West but when 'filtered' through all those houses and around the left hand island it was broadly in the SW direction and anywhere from 'becalmed' to 'rudders waving in the air'. As a number of us were loth to sail from the spit a course was set with a port tack start across a line between Orange 6 and a post somewhere around the right hand end of the right hand launching platform. From there we headed to White 3 and then to White 1, close to the left hand launching platform, Then it was off to White 6, off the spit, and back up to Orange 7 before returning to White 6 and back to finish between White 3 and the edge of the LH platform.
Apart from the first 'dodgy' port tack approach to the first mark we had a couple of good, challenging, beats and deceptive runs where the wind saw yachts becalmed one moment and on the verge of broaching a few seconds later. The course gave plenty of opportunities for making and loosing places between windward and leeward marks; again there were some very close finishes with places being decided by a few centimetres - or less!
The fleet of ten yachts was reduced occasionally due to rigging failures. Geoff had backstay problems and returned to the water carrying 'B' rig but, unfortunately for him, the wind was not consistently strong enough to give him an advantage even though some of us considered changing down at times. Mike Ewart withdrew a few races later when his winch line parted, not something that is easily repaired in the time of a couple of races.
As is becoming a feature of our club meetings, competition was pretty close although there were only two tied scores: Mike Ewart took this tie by way of his best 5th place compared with Geoff's best of 7th.
Regards,
Mike
Round 5 January 7th
Hi Folks,
If you didn't sail your One Metre today, you missed a great session. Ok, it was cold but that was largely as a result of wind-chill from a mid-teens mph wind from the North East moving to ENE, an almost perfect direction for our sailing area coming to us with little interruption from buildings, islands and all that stuff.
Eight skippers took to the water with only two of us, Mike K. and Mike S., initially in 'B' suit. Mike K's race 1 runaway victory under full control contrasted with the battles of the 'A' rigs to make it around the course from White 1 / White 7 up to Orange 3, then Orange 4 down to Orange 1 in the left hand bay, back around Orange 3 and Orange 1 to a short dash to finish across the same line as the start.
The start of race 2 was delayed somewhat by a mass conversion to 'B' rig which proved to be the one to use and resulted in some close racing which was eventually dominated by John Howell, though he was challenged from time to time and even became embroiled enough to be caught in the odd mix up of yachts as they fought to round the windward and leeward marks.
Sadly, Richard Dolman's participation in sailing was cut short by some mysterious mechanical problem involving his 'B' rig gooseneck which refused to work properly; not something easily fixed at the lakeside in brisk, cold wind and with frozen fingers. Richard kindly stayed on to take charge of the starts and scoring.
By the time we had completed ten races the wind was bordering on sufficient to bring out 'C' suits, something not often seen on our water - like the 'white horses' beginning to appear trotting down the lake: a rough 'rule of thumb' means that the wind had reached 25 mph. Now that would have been exciting!
Have a good week,
Mike
Hi Folks,
If you didn't sail your One Metre today, you missed a great session. Ok, it was cold but that was largely as a result of wind-chill from a mid-teens mph wind from the North East moving to ENE, an almost perfect direction for our sailing area coming to us with little interruption from buildings, islands and all that stuff.
Eight skippers took to the water with only two of us, Mike K. and Mike S., initially in 'B' suit. Mike K's race 1 runaway victory under full control contrasted with the battles of the 'A' rigs to make it around the course from White 1 / White 7 up to Orange 3, then Orange 4 down to Orange 1 in the left hand bay, back around Orange 3 and Orange 1 to a short dash to finish across the same line as the start.
The start of race 2 was delayed somewhat by a mass conversion to 'B' rig which proved to be the one to use and resulted in some close racing which was eventually dominated by John Howell, though he was challenged from time to time and even became embroiled enough to be caught in the odd mix up of yachts as they fought to round the windward and leeward marks.
Sadly, Richard Dolman's participation in sailing was cut short by some mysterious mechanical problem involving his 'B' rig gooseneck which refused to work properly; not something easily fixed at the lakeside in brisk, cold wind and with frozen fingers. Richard kindly stayed on to take charge of the starts and scoring.
By the time we had completed ten races the wind was bordering on sufficient to bring out 'C' suits, something not often seen on our water - like the 'white horses' beginning to appear trotting down the lake: a rough 'rule of thumb' means that the wind had reached 25 mph. Now that would have been exciting!
Have a good week,
Mike
Round 4 December 24th
Hi Folks,
Please find attached the results of today's TIRYC One Metre sailing, results and summary courtesy of Mike Ewart.
A small but select turn out today Dave Paul and Richard sporting full suits and the rest with B suits it really was an A suit day for 90 percent of the time apart from Dave we all had some good racing Dave decided to play at the front so we let him, an excellent days sailing from him, the weather was overcast and as I said top of A suit with a course up and down the lake we had a practice race and then 13 races good fun had by all.
Best wishes for Christmas and, if we don't meet before, a Happy New Year.
Mike
Hi Folks,
Please find attached the results of today's TIRYC One Metre sailing, results and summary courtesy of Mike Ewart.
A small but select turn out today Dave Paul and Richard sporting full suits and the rest with B suits it really was an A suit day for 90 percent of the time apart from Dave we all had some good racing Dave decided to play at the front so we let him, an excellent days sailing from him, the weather was overcast and as I said top of A suit with a course up and down the lake we had a practice race and then 13 races good fun had by all.
Best wishes for Christmas and, if we don't meet before, a Happy New Year.
Mike
Round 3 December 3rd
Hi Folks,
What a change from Friday! Sunday turned out to be relatively warm, enough for some to shed their gloves, though not their jackets. The wind had abated from what greeted the DF95 skippers and was a reasonably consistent light North North Westerly which meant that we sailed out of the 'right hand bay' to the left most orange bouy between the islands, took it to starboard and around the next orange bouy also to starboard. The leeward mark was orange again down in the bay, rounded to starboard - to avoid too many mental adjustments - then back up to the windward orange mark, back to leeward and finish across the same line which was between a mark and the very imposing tripod mounted pole on the bank.
Dave Green was in terrific form with a string of first places even though several gave significant chase around the course. Behind first place the fleet was a closely contested affair with places being swapped all around the course: often first and second places had the pack charging down towards them as the wind built after one of its lighter moments downwind. A good turnout had a pretty good morning's sailing with none of the major gear failures experienced in the previous round, though Dave Green reported suffering occasional glitches with his controls: he suspects it may be his transmitter 'playing up' after having methodically going through all the radio components on the yacht; it didn't show Dave, or well done for surviving the glitches!
Regards,
Mike Kemp
Hi Folks,
What a change from Friday! Sunday turned out to be relatively warm, enough for some to shed their gloves, though not their jackets. The wind had abated from what greeted the DF95 skippers and was a reasonably consistent light North North Westerly which meant that we sailed out of the 'right hand bay' to the left most orange bouy between the islands, took it to starboard and around the next orange bouy also to starboard. The leeward mark was orange again down in the bay, rounded to starboard - to avoid too many mental adjustments - then back up to the windward orange mark, back to leeward and finish across the same line which was between a mark and the very imposing tripod mounted pole on the bank.
Dave Green was in terrific form with a string of first places even though several gave significant chase around the course. Behind first place the fleet was a closely contested affair with places being swapped all around the course: often first and second places had the pack charging down towards them as the wind built after one of its lighter moments downwind. A good turnout had a pretty good morning's sailing with none of the major gear failures experienced in the previous round, though Dave Green reported suffering occasional glitches with his controls: he suspects it may be his transmitter 'playing up' after having methodically going through all the radio components on the yacht; it didn't show Dave, or well done for surviving the glitches!
Regards,
Mike Kemp
Round 2 November 26th
We had a little more wind than was present on Friday and from a direction that allowed us a reasonable start from the red and white marks just off our normal operating position followed by a somewhat lopsided beat to the far left hand mark which was taken to port. From there we ran / reached to the middle of the three white marks in front of the western island, passing around an orange 'wing' mark in the mouth of the right hand bay. The main beat back to the windward mark was followed by a run to the leeward mark, then back to finish across the same line used to start.
Wind and wave conditions resulted in some relatively close racing with no one boat persisting in any position, except for 28, Mike Ewart, who suffered terminal winch failure before the first race had actually started. Mike earned his 'attendance points' by manning the score sheet while the rest of us got on with racing.
Dave Green, Keith Coxon, and Mike Kemp spent the first seven races closely contesting the first few places until, in race eight, Mike's winch failed with a severe case of the jitters which unwound its control line and caused Mike's retirement from the morning's competition. Paul Risdale's rather nice wooden planked hull collected several third places and looks like being 'one to watch' for future events.
Regards,
Mike Kemp
We had a little more wind than was present on Friday and from a direction that allowed us a reasonable start from the red and white marks just off our normal operating position followed by a somewhat lopsided beat to the far left hand mark which was taken to port. From there we ran / reached to the middle of the three white marks in front of the western island, passing around an orange 'wing' mark in the mouth of the right hand bay. The main beat back to the windward mark was followed by a run to the leeward mark, then back to finish across the same line used to start.
Wind and wave conditions resulted in some relatively close racing with no one boat persisting in any position, except for 28, Mike Ewart, who suffered terminal winch failure before the first race had actually started. Mike earned his 'attendance points' by manning the score sheet while the rest of us got on with racing.
Dave Green, Keith Coxon, and Mike Kemp spent the first seven races closely contesting the first few places until, in race eight, Mike's winch failed with a severe case of the jitters which unwound its control line and caused Mike's retirement from the morning's competition. Paul Risdale's rather nice wooden planked hull collected several third places and looks like being 'one to watch' for future events.
Regards,
Mike Kemp
Round 1 - November 5th
“Guy Fawkes morning saw a bright but chilly day with a light wind ( which would strengthen through the morning ) from the North West. This meant that the standard course for the last month or so was set, start between the buoys in front of the jetty, into the left bay round red 7 across into the right hand bay round red 8, out to a white buoy to the right, back to red 7, back to a white buoy to the right and then finish where we started.
The first three races proceeded according to form. John Clifton edged race one with Dave Green taking the next two. At that point Dave developed problems, apparently power related, such that he disappears from the score sheet, after causing mayhem at a mark with an out of control boat. I started to have rudder problems about that time but unwisely soldiered on. During this time John Clifton took advantage and put in a series of good results. It was at this stage that Allen Pearce had a problem with his rig and retired and my rudder problems increased such that I lost all directional control and my boat, after a brief flirtation with one of the islands, proceeded across the lake and moored up in front of the car park on the opposite bank much to the amusement of the onlookers.
The other happenings at that time you will have to deduce from the score sheet.
Richard”
“Guy Fawkes morning saw a bright but chilly day with a light wind ( which would strengthen through the morning ) from the North West. This meant that the standard course for the last month or so was set, start between the buoys in front of the jetty, into the left bay round red 7 across into the right hand bay round red 8, out to a white buoy to the right, back to red 7, back to a white buoy to the right and then finish where we started.
The first three races proceeded according to form. John Clifton edged race one with Dave Green taking the next two. At that point Dave developed problems, apparently power related, such that he disappears from the score sheet, after causing mayhem at a mark with an out of control boat. I started to have rudder problems about that time but unwisely soldiered on. During this time John Clifton took advantage and put in a series of good results. It was at this stage that Allen Pearce had a problem with his rig and retired and my rudder problems increased such that I lost all directional control and my boat, after a brief flirtation with one of the islands, proceeded across the lake and moored up in front of the car park on the opposite bank much to the amusement of the onlookers.
The other happenings at that time you will have to deduce from the score sheet.
Richard”
