Hi Skippers,
It was a very nice afternoon of IOM sailing with 8 boats on the water and a good 12-16 knot SE wind giving us plenty of close sailing. Sun was out as well.
As it was a social day with only scratch races all skippers were relaxed. Heaps of fun banter !!
Paul Newman #60 broke a side stay and then changed down to a B Rig. Shortly after Phil Gray # 147 suffered the same fate and was also on his B rig. Surprisingly he still had great speed and was very competitive all afternoon. Geoff Wilson and I were battling between ourselves in many races with our TS2’s. Bill Heritage #59 broke a main sheet in heat 7 and then ran the scoring sheet for the last 4 heats.
Geoff Morris was really sailing well with his new Pikanto IOM and won the day. Well sailed Geoff!!
Refreshments were served at the 1/2 time break so all skippers were ready to rip for the 2nd half.
It was a fun afternoon for all sailing in very good spirit !!
Thanks to Kim Mitchell for offering to score up until the 1/2 time break.
Congrats to the place getters:
1st Geoff Morris #96 17 points
2nd Derick Warne #97 18 points
3rd Phil Gray #147 26 points
4th Geoff Wilson #25 26 points ( on a countback )
Full sailscores results below.
https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/iom-club-scratch-day
Thanks to Derick for taking the trailer to Tony’s and to all helping pack up.
See you all on Tuesday.
Happy sailing,
Simon Kellett
