Major Search and Research Averted off Langness

admin | May 31, 2009

News is just coming in of a major incident involving a club member off Langness this afternoon. It appears only for the persons ability to swim quickly and strongly was a disaster averted. Now I know you’re all wondering who it was and the clue is, it was a “Cat”astrophe.
On a sunny [...]

Race 3 24/05/09 - and what a race!

admin | May 24, 2009

Well the wind gods delivered, nearly on time, but in the end near perfect conditons. From a start line with 1knot SW seeing all the 15 boats crawl over the line to 10 minutes later having 8 knots and beautifull conditions, warm sun, wind and blue seas and our best turnout yet of 15 [...]

Next Race Sunday 24th May

admin | May 19, 2009

The next race, race 3 is scheduled for this coming Sunday starting at 10:45am. Current forecast @ 20:00hrs on the 19th suggests ENE 7-9 knots and rain. We can only hope for more wind! But hopefully we’ll at least get a full race without having the OOD call a shortened course as the [...]

Race 2 - 10/05/09

admin | May 10, 2009

Following a week of strong winds the day started with 1 knot of south easterly breeze and blue sky making some happy and others extremely frustrated with these soft conditions. At the gun the Stratos was first away closely followed by the Delta of John Qualtrough, the Fulmar of Mike Pollard and the 1 [...]

Next Race Sunday 10th May

admin | May 5, 2009

Provisional reports indicate more of the usual suspects will be appearing this Sunday for the race as all the boat park residents are now lifted in.  But former champion Neville Taylor appears under pressure to get the mast up and rig set in time, not so for Tony Gale who completed his training session last weekend in his [...]