Hi Skippers,
Although we had a NE breeze around 5-8 knots the 11 skippers enjoyed the tight racing and close sailing into ” Death corner”. I used the dinghy to position an offset mark at the top buoy so it cleared the fleet when rounding the top mark.
We had Michael Bourke #01 and Glenn Fitzgerald #20 join is for the afternoon which lifted the intensity as both are National IOM level sailors. Overall Glenn finished 2nd on 17 points and Michael finished 4th on 25 points. Their scores were removed from sailscores.
Geoff Morris #96 was using his K2 and once again proved hard to catch taking 3 heats wins from the 10 races. If it wasn’t 1st then it was a podium finish. Well sailed Geoff !! The port tack start in heat 4 was a cracker of a move. You snake in the grass !!
Geoff Wilson #25 and I #58 were crossing tacks all afternoon and seemed to be close to each other as we crossed the finish line on many heats, We both finished the day tied on points but Geoff had 3 second places and came 2nd on countback. Great effort !! Go the TS2’s !!!!
Congrats to the place getters:
1st Geoff Morris #96 11 points
2nd Geoff Wilson #25 20 points
3rd Simon Kellett #58 20 points ( on count back )
Full sailscores results below:
https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/iom-club-championship-scratch-sep-05
Thanks to Neil from NZ for helping score the finish line for the afternoon.
Thanks for the team effort to all who helped pack up the Dinghy, Bouybots, Flags, and Cones.
It was a very enjoyable afternoon with 25 degrees and a gentle breeze. Very close racing in good spirit !!
See you all on Tuesday for the first race of our Summer series H’cap sailing.
We have our Secretary ( Mark Lewis ), Commodore ( Richard Brady ) and Rear Commodore ( Craig Wiley ) all standing down from the committee for next year.
These positions need to be filled and if there are any IOM skippers interested talk with me about helping out on the committee for 2027.
See you all on Tuesday.
Happy sailing,
Simon Kellett