IOM Winter Series at Lincoln Radio Sailing Club - Round 7
by Micky Chamberlain 6 Jan 20:58 GMT
5 January 2025
Lincoln's I.O.M. Winter series continued into 2025 with Round 7 of the series, and on a weekend that had weather warning all over the country, the club had some great racing.
One of those scary weather forecasts, but for Lincoln the bark was worse than the bite. Nine skippers turned out for this very popular class. The Rain was light we were all wrapped up warm and we had some fantastic racing, Tim and Pete sorted the course, and Richard showed up and did the start line and the finishing, many thanks.
Race 1 and the usual suspects were right up there with Darin taking the bullet from Tim and Pete, the Brit Pops just having the edge as this was a day of Venti's and Brit Pops, we all had top suits and I guess it was around 60/70% breeze for that rig and it went lighter as the morning wore on, race two was once again Darin taking it from Tim, and Chris nipping in to take 3rd spot.
The racing up and down the fleet was close, and very competitive, By the time we had race three the rain had just about stopped, Roger C 30 took the win with his slightly modified Venti, with Tim keeping his averages nice and low took another second and Darin in third spot, Just to clarify Kevin E was racing his brand new Brit Pop instead of his Venti, he seemed to be well pleased.
Mick Cooper I have to say sailed as well as I have seen him sail for a long time he also got some great results a couple of fourths and a couple of thirds and in this fleet that is some going, so well done to him.
Race 4 saw Pete W's jib boom snap at the pivot point on his Venti and put him out of the running, Darin took the win Chris 2nd and Roger took 3rd spot.
Coffee was welcome sadly no left over mince pies but hey ho, a bit of banter on the bank made up for it.
Straight after the break Tim really got going and won race 5 by what we may call a country mile showing both Darin and Chris a clean pair of heels, race 6 and a couple of Venti's managed to get their noses in front with Tim having his worst result a 6th, from then on as you can see by the results it was the Darin and and Tim show, apart from the very last race of the day in a drastically falling breeze, where Tim led all the way to within ten yards of the finish when cheeky Micky boy just got his nose in front to take the win.
For the record Darin had 6 wins Tim took 2 wins Roger 2 wins and Micky boy 1 win but it really was all about the discards, and with Darin's worst a 4th and a 3rd it tells it own story.
Well done to all for a great day of racing, especially Darin for the win, and especially to the helper's who got the gear out and away again.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Sail No | Skipper | Hull | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | Pts |
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| 1 | 98 | Darin Ballington | Britpop | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | 134 | Tim Hand | Britpop | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| 3 | 74 | Chris Elliott | Britpop | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 34 |
| 4 | 46 | Mick Chamberlain | Venti | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 37 |
| 5 | 30 | Roger Crates | Venti | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 38 |
| 6 | 39 | Mick Cooper | Venti | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 43 |
| 7 | 87 | Kevin Evison | Venti | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 52 |
| 8 | 76 | Mike Williams | Britpop | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 67 |
| 9 | 65 | Pete Walters | Venti | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 72 |