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Lutine
Bell wins the Spring series
Club weekend
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The Lineslip regatta is an event whereby Corporate guests and members
race, this year in two divisions.
Are
you a club member and interested in chartering Lutine for a trip to the
Channel
Islands
Then have you considered a weekday club charter?
Don't
forget
that Lutine
is available to club members during the week too - she's not just for
weekends!!! You could even book her for a few days at a time
for
a short
break! A
special rate applies to member non-Corporate Charter use during the
week.
If
you would like any further information then please contact Lawrence
on sailing@lloydsyachtclub.com
The
final
day and three races for the Raymarine
Warshash Spring Series could not have been dialed up with better
weather - a
force three increasing to stiff four from the South East, blue sky and
Sun.
Going into the final day Lutine was the only boat that had sailed all
the races
in the series and therefore was leading the points table. For
the
crew of
Peter, Amanda and Natalie Young, Mary Webb and Martin Moss the pre race
nerves
were intense as Peter had calculated that the nearest
competitor,
Scarramouche was level on points after allowing three discards. In
preparation
for the final three races Peter had all spare weight removed and didn't
allow
the usual lunches, spare kit bags, crates of beer etc - so with a mars
bar a
piece and one bottle of water for the day Belle set off for the
deciding races
of the Spring Series.
All
three races followed a similar patten
with the first three boats, Betty, Tiger Feet and Sparkle being too
quick and
consistent leaving Belle's crew to try and get round the course ahead
of
Scaramouche. For most of the time there was little in it with
Belle
managing to keep up and occasionally get ahead of Scaramouche helped
by enthusiastic trimming from Mary, who nearly threw herself
over
the
stern in her enthusiam to trim the spinnaker! and Natalie unflabably
operating the bow. However, the lack of practice and
familiarity
with the
boat which is inherent for a Club crew allowed
Scarramouch
to take
advantage of Belle's lower mark roundings and to keep then keep
the advantage to finish ahead of us.
Belle's
crew were more than happy to concede victory
to Scaramouche who are a very friendly and sporting crew but on
retunring to
the shore realised that only two discards had been allowed and
therefore they
had won the Series after all. A
great effort from the Club and
congratulations to everyone who took part and sailed on Belle during
the series
- who were:
Peter
Young, Martin Moss, Darren Powell, Clodagh
Mitchell, Liz Lotz, Andy Jameson, Amanda Young, Katrina Dwan, Natalie
Young, Phil
Stephenson, Richard Shreeve
Club
weekend
After
a later than planned arrival into
Haslar, I managed to join Lutine just in time for a proper dinner and a
‘few’
vino’s.
Club weekend seemed to be off to a good start, we had a great mixture
of
nationalities, with the English outnumber by an International crew,
comprising
of representatives from NZ, America and a token Irish punter thrown in
for good
luck.
Guy,
our resident chef for the weekend, was out to
impress,
wowing
us with homemade meals, more home-grown and fresh produce that you
could shake
a stick at, much of which came directly from his garden in Somerset
or his surrounding
locale! That Friday night would prove to be a rather
civilised
and tame
night (when compared to Saturday night!), as we all got to know each
others
stories and talked about what we may like to get up to the following
day on the
water.
Saturday morning brought with it a touch of wind, Simon reckoned enough
to
allow us to attempt the NAB Tower
challenge, so off we
set.
Over a sandwich lunch on the go, we moseyed our way back towards
Cowes,
and talk turned to the likes of monking, nuning and seagulling (all of
which
are currently being considered for inclusion in next edition of Oxford
dictionary…I’m dying to hear the variety in
definitions!!)
– In hindsight, I
think I can safely say, this marked the beginning of the end!
Initial talk of trying to get over to Yarmouth
for the evening was
abandoned and our focus turned to finding somewhere at Cowes
We moored up at East
Cowes
marina and soaked up the early April
sun. A perfect evening of vino, another top class meal from
Guy,
some
pontoon acrobatics from Lorel and Amanda and plenty and plenty of story
telling!
Sunday morning (early afternoon, in truth!), as you can well imagine,
we all
arose with fresh, clear heads and raring to go!! Simon
suggested
a Girls
vs Boys afternoon of racing, which consisted of a simple round the cans
course
in the best time. After a few dodgy tacks, the Boys got into
the
swing of
thinks and posted a respectable time just over the 1 hour
mark.
Girls
were up next, Lorel proved fit & rested enough to join us in
our
efforts
and we got off to a cracking start…concentration and skill
required in lights
airs, but, true to form, the wind let us down and we abandoned the race
when it
became obvious that the Boys time would not be beaten – A
re-match is most
definitely called for!
Time had gotten the better of us and so, we made our way back into
Portsmouth tired, happy and
some a little burnt after our time in the Sunny Solent!
Orla
Mellett
Musto
polo shirts have
been reduced to £17.50 to make way for our new shirts - here
soon. Don't forget that we also have Musto baseball
caps
(£15.50). There are also limited Club jackets
available -
again, a new style will be unveiled soon! To order please
visit
the Merchandise
section of the
website.
There is
plenty of time
before the Dinner Dance to challenge all these times! See the
Club Challenge page for further details.
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