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Border Counties Midweek Sailing Series at Llyn Brenig Sailing Club

by Dave Thomas 21 Jun 2024 05:10 UTC 11 June 2024

The Border Counties Midweek Sailing 2024 series visited Wales highest sailing club Llyn Brenig for the third in their Midweek series.

The forecast did not look too nice with winds of 15 gusting 28 and a temperature of 9 degrees to feel like 7 (and it was, remember this is JUNE) should you have to wear a drysuit!

With 17 boats of various handicaps ranging from a Devoti D One to a Topper a course was set and sailing started with a clean start the with a good long beat up to the windward mark to split people up the race was led by the Devoti D One of Mike Allen followed by Andy Todd, both clearly used to the larger lake and flying their spinnakers with Pete Coop following into 3rd.

After a break for lunch racing continued with two back to back races and a new course was due to be set but the wind reverted back so the original course was kept Again everyone got away and headed off up the first leg, with Mike leading the way again but Pete Coop was warming up and finishing 2nd followed by Eric Haselden in his Supernova.

Race 3 started almost straight away after the 65 minute race 2 again the race was lead by Mike but by now Pete had got the hang of the lake pushing Mike down to 2nd.

For those who like long legs between marks then this and Llyn Tegid (Bala) are great, you can barely see the next mark.

It's good to see such a range of boats with such different handicaps and age ranges.with the largest class being the Streaker where two sailors chose to use the Wave sail due to the conditions, which clearly worked for them with no capsizes.

Only two double handed boats out today, being a pair of Miracles from Shotwick.

Thanks to the team at Llyn Brenig for hosting this event for us and as with all these events that we all enjoy attending they could not be held without all the volunteers.

Overall Results:

1st Mike Allen Devoti, D One (Llyn Tegi, Bala)
2nd Pete Coop, Streaker (Winsford)
3rd Andy Todd, RS100 (Llyn Tegid, Bala)
1st Double hander: Simon & Julie Dolman, Miracle (Shotwick)
1st Junior: Nayth Twiggs, Topper (Budworth)

PosClassSail NoHelmCrewClubLlyn Brenig R1Llyn BrenigLlyn BrenigPts
1stDEVOTI D ONE405Mike Allen Bala11‑22
2ndSTREAKER2177Pete Coop Winsford Flash‑3213
3rdRS 100 8.4360Andy Todd Bala24‑86
4thSUPERNOVA1296Eric Haselden Winsford Flash‑4336
5thTOPPER49191Nayth Twiggs Budworth55‑710
6thSOLO6107Ted Garner Budworth7‑11411
7thSTREAKER1621Paul Newman Shotwick‑66511
8thDEVOTI D Zero333Liz Potter West Kirby‑118614
9thSOLO4636Miles Thomas Bala‑107916
10thSUPERNOVA406James Stark Winsford Flash812(DNC)20
11thSUPERNOVA1241Frank Lafferty Winsford Flash‑1291120
12thSOLO5963Phil Snewin Chester(DNC)101020
13thMIRACLE3520Simon DolmanJulie DolmanShotwick Lake‑14131225
14thMIRACLE4103Dave ThomasShan StapleyShotwick13(DNF)1326
15thLASER RADIAL199238Emily Harries Llyn Brenig9(RET)DNC27
16thSTREAKER1868Steve Bellamy Winsford Flash‑16141428
17thSTREAKER2165Sandy Mill Winsford Flash1515(DNC)30

The next venue in the series is at Llyn Tegid (Bala Lake) Sailing club on Tuesday July 9th, so why not come and join our friendly Tuesday club? It's better than being in work!

If you want any information about the series then see our website bordercountiesmidweeksailing.wordpress.com

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