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WEE NIP TWO ISLANDS ROUND 3

29/5/2017

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Reported by Geoff Raygada.
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Today It was the turn of Two Islands RYC to host the third round of the Wee Nip Challenge between Abington Park, Two Islands and Emberton Park clubs. Holidays and the like had taken their toll on numbers today, so the attendance was a little disappointing and somewhat lower than we have become accustomed to. It was a rather leisurely start, this morning with the racing getting under way a little after 10:00 am, which turned out for the best as we missed the short sharp shower and almost flat calm conditions of the early morning. A port rounding triangle/sausage course was set, trying to keep us out in the breeze, which began to look a little ambitious for the wind strength, however there was sufficient breeze to finish within a reasonable time frame. As per usual, the wind swung round a little as the morning progressed and increased in strength steadily, giving some enjoyable racing. The first leg wasn’t always a beat but there was always one there somewhere, often not the same leg as the last lap. A quick look at the phone suggested that the wind would increase to around 20mph by lunch time, which was greeted with some scepticism, oh ye of little faith! By coffee break, we were nearly there, plenty of wind and sunshine but now blowing from the
opposite direction, so during the beak a cunning plan was hatched and the course was reversed, now starting into the bay to our left, behind the Island, and still keeping to the triangle/ sausage format.The stiff breeze and sunshine continued for the rest of the day, providing exciting
and challenging racing, with the inevitable wind shifts, typical of inland water sailing.
At times these gusts caught out the unwary, especially down wind but in general it was
manageable but certainly at the top end of comfortable.
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Wee nip hollowell round 2

2/5/2017

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2017 Wee Nip Medal Competition
Round 2 29th April 2017

APMYC at Hollowell Sailing Club
Reported by Peter Jackson
Pictures by Peter Jackson

Ten stalwarts turned up to race their Wee Nips at Hollowell Sailing Club for the second round of the Medal Competitions. The wind as little as it was, was in the south with subtle shifts which most of the fleet had trouble identifying. However John Burgoine was the master of the day ahead of Paul Risdale. Special mention to Paul Mallard joining us from the Sailing Club, who is getting to grips with model sailing.

The Interclub prize was won by Hollowell SC followed by Abington Park with Two Islands third, unfortunately there was a no show from Emberton Park.


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wee nip emberton park sc round 1

20/3/2017

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2017 - Wee Nip Medal Competition - Round 1
Emberton Park Model Yacht Club

18th March 2017

Report by Alan Smedley
Pictures by Rob Bell & Alan Smedley

Many thanks to the 16 skippers who turned up at Emberton Park S.C. this month for the first of the 2017 Wee Nip Medal Series. Two of Emberton’s helms, unaccustomed to racing in such a large fleet, dipped their toes into the ‘big fleet’ waters and I hope were spurred on to travelling to another club’s water themselves. Having said that, the wind conditions were not good for maintaining full control of ones model, with a gusty westerly funnelling across the lake causing craft to frequently change tack with no discernible movement of the thumbs, ‘just like that’. Bob Luddington and Ash Shaw wisely withdrew their steeds from the event to fight another (hopefully more benign) day. Though this is not meant to be a knock-out competition, Keith Coxon besieged by a roller-coaster of medical setbacks maintained his upbeat demeanour but had to leave at lunchtime to keep yet another appointment. I am reminded of the nursery rhyme ‘Ten green bottles’, well not exactly, by lunch there were still 13 left standing on Emberton’s lake side preparing to do battle.
And what a battle, at the half way point Simmons was one point ahead of Burgoine with the two Johns between them taking first place for 9 out of the 10 races.

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Half way point? I hear you question, well yes, this one was a marathon; Radio Sailing is now officially regarded as an addiction, everyone knew that their next race was going to be their best result, so we just kept on going. Dave Pace who had kindly volunteered to record the results was by 2:00 pm checking his watch with increasing regularity ( what time did the Rugby start Dave?) This happily coincided with race No 24 (a record I believe) so a good time to draw proceedings to a close.


The final results, you can as usual read below.
Prizes were awarded to reflect the days hard fought placings
First place – John Burgoine
Second place – John Simmonds
Third place – Peter Jackson
Prizes were presented by Emberton Park S.C.’s Commodore Rob Bell.

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he efforts of John Simmons, Paul Risdale, Geoff Raygada & Keith Coxon of Two islands RYC were rewarded with victory in the newly instigated Inter Club competition, they were followed home respectively by Hollowell SC, Abington Park MYC & Emberton SC. Geoff Raygada was pleased to take home “Murdoch” on behalf of the winning club. He may not be much to look at but he does contain a heart of gold, I'll let you decide if that comment refers to Geoff or Murdoch!



Thanks once again to John, John, Peter, Paul, Peter, Jeff, Mike, Rob, Colin, Derrek, Tom, Tim, Keith, Bob and Ash for making it a most enjoyable days sailing, and especially to Peter Shepherd for helping me produce the results for this 24 race epic.


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    2017 DATES
    R1- 18th March - EMBERTON SAILING CLUB


    R2 - 29th April - HOLLOWELL SAILING CLUB

    R3 - 27th May - TWO ISLANDS RYC

    R4 - 8th July - TWO ISLANDS RYC

    R5 - 22nd July - HOLLOWELL SAILING CLUB

    R6 - 5th August - TWO ISLANDS RYC

    R7 - 9th Sept - EMBERTON SAILING CLUB

    R8 - 21st Oct - HOLLOWELL SAILING CLUB

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