Monday 25th July

A beautiful evening for a sail. A little blustery to start with, which encouraged jibs to be flown

but, on the long run from "up there somewhere beyond Brownsea" back to NC12 most opted to

change to genoas in the fading breeze. Our foredeck crew completed this task brilliantly in a very 

short space of time (yes the decision was a little late). However, the swapping sides of spinnaker 

sheets for the run from Ro-Ro was not quite so crisp !! We had a great fun evening without 

threatening the front four boats, Pheonix (who were very quick and took line honours), Madeleine, 

Flying Colours and Crackerjack, who seemed to leave a nice healthy gap between themselves and 

the chasers. Actually, we weren't that close to the second half of the fleet either !! 

However, it is all good experience.

William 

Series results:

		6th June	13th June	20th June	27th June	4th July	11th July	18th July	25th July	Points
										(1 discard)
4270	Jolly Roger	a	2	1	1	2	1	3	5	10
4265	Madeleine	b	1	2	RET 9	7	2	1	2	15
4242	Pheonix	a	4	DNC 12	RTD 9	1	3	7	1	25
4074	Crackerjack	n	7	DNC 12	2	5	4	4	4	26
4263	Jobs for the Buoys	d	8	5	3	4	7	2	6	27
4235	Wijit	o	3	4	DNC 12	3	6	6	8	30
4266	Flying Colours	n	6	3	DNC 12	DNC 12	5	5	3	34
4239	Zaphod	e	5	7	4	6	9	8	7	37
5467	XP Rigging	d	10	6	5	8	8	9	9	45
4067	Vinyl Solutions		9	DNF 9	7	9	DNC 12	10	10	54
4204	Easy Tiger		DNC 12	DNC 12	6	DNF 11	10	DNC 12	DNC 12	63

William Lack 

mobile tel no. 0782 552 8413

email: william.lack@hotmail.co.uk

Monday 18th July

A beautiful summer's evening, at last!!! with just enough of a SE breeze to allow for a windward / leeward course with North Channel no. 2 being the windward mark and Stakes Race mark the leeward.

"Let's be maverick" we all agreed on Vinyl Solutions. "Everyone else will head over to the Brownsea shallows and beat up against the strengthening incoming tide. So let's try the North Channel and approach No2 buoy on starboard tack" So the idea was to short tack along the harbour's north shore up to Saltern's and then near Evening Hill. What we didn't allow for was that EVERYONE else had the same idea!!! so it all got rather congested.

Topper sailor Oscar volunteered to perform these tricky tacking manoeuvres and it wasn't his fault that we spend a few minutes prising a mooring buoy from around our rudder !! Needless to say we now trailed the fleet. All we could see was blue spinnakers starting the run so who was who ? Who knows ?

Madeleine, on the wrong side of the start line for the Race Officers' liking, and 5th around the windward mark, gybed into the main channel the quickest and found themselves heading the fleet by the finish. Jobs for the Buoys achieved their best result of the series, coming 2nd, keeping Jolly Roger viewing their transom.

Crackerjack move up into 4th place in the series. 

     

		6th June	13th June	20th June	27th June	4th July	11th July	18th July	Points
4270	Jolly Roger	a	2	1	1	2	1	3	10
4265	Madeleine	b	1	2	RET 9	7	2	1	22
4263	Jobs for the Buoys	a	8	5	3	4	7	2	29
4074	Crackerjack	n	7	DNC 12	2	5	4	4	34
4235	Wijit	d	3	4	DNC 12	3	6	6	34
4242	Pheonix	o	4	DNC 12	RTD 9	1	3	7	36
4239	Zaphod	n	5	7	4	6	9	8	39
4266	Flying Colours	e	6	3	DNC 12	DNC 12	5	5	43
5467	XP Rigging	d	10	6	5	8	8	9	46
4067	Vinyl Solutions		9	DNF 9	7	9	DNC 12	10	56
4204	Easy Tiger		DNC 12	DNC 12	6	DNF 11	10	DNC 12	63

William Lack 

mobile tel no. 0782 552 8413

email: william.lack@hotmail.co.uk

Monday 11th July

Typically, as soon as the decision is made, you can guarantee that the wind will start to abate and everyone else will have a good race! Well that is how it seemed as I drove along the A35 back home on Monday evening. Vinyl Solutions' crew had been dispersed awaiting next week.

However, I understand that the remaining 10 J24's were greeted with 20+ knots of wind and most opted for their smaller headsails. With the wind in a westerly there was, apparently not too much of a beat, but some trimmers got a workout, nonetheless.

Apologies to Crackerjack in messing up their result on 27th June, now rectified.

William 
Summer Series results.....let's hope we get a summer before too long

		6th June	13th June	20th June	27th June	4th July	11th July	18th July	25th July		Points
4270	Jolly Roger	A	2	1	1	2	1				7
4265	Madeleine	B	1	2	RET 9	7	2				21
4263	Jobs for the Buoys	A	8	5	3	4	7				27
4235	Wijit	N	3	4	DNC 12	3	5				27
4239	Zaphod	D	5	7	4	6	9				31
4242	Pheonix	O	4	DNC 12	RTD 9	1	3				29
4074	Crackerjack	N	7	DNC 12	2	5	4				30
5467	XP Rigging	E	10	6	5	8	8				37
4266	Flying Colours	D	6	3	DNC 12	DNC 12	6				39
4067	Vinyl Solutions		9	DNF 9	7	9	DNC 12				46
4204	Easy Tiger		DNC 12	DNC 12	6	DNF 11	10				51

William Lack

mobile tel no. 0782 552 8413

email: william.lack@hotmail.co.uk

J24 Summer !!! 2016 Series Scores

		6th June	13th June	20th June	27th June	4th July	11th July	18th July	25th July		Points
4270	Jolly Roger	B	2	1	1	2					6
4265	Madeleine	A	1	2	RET 9	7					19
4263	Jobs for the Buoys		8	5	3	4					20
4235	Wijit	A	3	4	DNC 12	3					22
4239	Zaphod	D	5	7	4	6					22
4242	Hitch Hiker	N	4	DNC 12	RTD 9	1					26
5467	XP Rigging	D	10	6	5	8					29
4266	Flying Colours	O	6	3	DNC 12	DNC 12					33
4067	Vinyl Solutions	E	9	DNF 9	7	9					34
4074	Crackerjack	N	7	DNC 12	DNC 12	5					36
4204	Easy Tiger		DNC 12	DNC 12	6	DNF 11					41

William Lack 

mobile tel no. 0782 552 8413

email: william.lack@hotmail.co.uk

Monday 4th July

Blustery, overcast, but a fun race in cool conditions. Duncan McCarthy joined us on board Vinyl Solutions to add a bit of class to the proceedings, whilst Ben Purrier took the helm. 

Despite a poor start, and only 4 on board, Jolly Roger proved their mettle to finish 2nd behind Hitchhiker who stormed away never to be caught. Andrew Hill's Wijit also had their problems with recalcitrant spinnaker sheets but recovered to an excellent 3rd. There were many place changes throughout the race as the fleet negotiated the strong incoming tide whilst paying particular attention to Stoney corner. Sadly Easy Tiger were unable to finish due to a wrapped spinnaker.

I made a note to myself at the end, to remain in the cockpit. The bruises will take a little while to disappear. 

Result:

1st 4242 Hitchhiker

2nd 4270  Jolly Roger

3rd 4235 Wijit

4th 4263  Jobs for the Buoys

5th 4074 Crackerjack

6th 4239 Zaphod

7th 4265 Madeleine

8th 5647 XP Rigging

9th 4067 Vinyl Solutions

DNF 4204  Easy Tiger 

 

William Lack  

mobile tel no. 0782 552 8413

email: william.lack@hotmail.co.uk