Tag Archive: Flying Fifteens

Arrived at Bewl yesterday and the sun was shining and there was a good westerly force 3-4 blowing with 13 knot gusts. Could life get much better? Yes it could!! I was the fourth Fifteen down on the slip to rig but then more and more arrived. In the end, 12 of us made our …

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Ice on the windscreen yesterday morning as I was loading up the car and no wind. Arrived at Bewl and ice on the boat cover and no wind. However, six of us took our boats down to the slipway but only Eric and Bill took the cover of theirs…. and that was only to step …

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I was first and only Fifteen on the slipway yesterday for some time and thought that I’d be getting first place in the race until Dan and then Paddy turned up. But, hey, third would better than most weeks! All we needed now was some wind. Two cups of coffee later and Jo and Ann, …

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In Keith’s and Geoff’s absence I have been volunteered to give my impressions of yesterdays sailing, seen from the pointy end of Jo Mayes boat. The Wanderer Inland Championships meant that our race was confined to a proportion of the main lake and the virtually triangular course of HBWX, all to port , resulted in …

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Many of you must have been watching the weather forecasts last week and had been put off by the threat of gale force winds and torrential rain coming up from France over Saturday night. Well, it must have booked a trip on Brittany Ferries and got held up in the seaman’s strike cos it didn’t …

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Commodores’ trophies event yesterday and a good showing from the Fifteen fleet. Nine out of the 27 participants. However, one sad thing as far as the club is concerned was that, of the total, 20 fell into the senior category and there were only three juniors taking part. With two races before lunch, the short …

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