Hi Skippers,
After a week of intense IOM sailing with the IOM National Championships held by our club it was quite relaxing to be at the lake with our regular IOM fleet. The sun was out, breeze was 3-5 knot NE and the sailing was very close all afternoon.
We were sailing into the “Death corner” but it made it possible to make gains or have a lose if you didn’t get the wind shifts right.
Geoff Morris with his new Pikanto was showing us all just how fast this design is and he was going to be hard to beat. In the end scores were tied between 2nd and 3rd, 4th and 5th and 6th and 7th place. That shows just how close the sailing is getting.
Congrats to the place getters:
1st Geoff Morris #96 24 points
2nd Paul Newman #60 29 points
3rd Simon Kellett #141 29 points
4th Greg McGill #62 35 points
5th John Halloran #83 35 points
Full sailscores results below:
https://www.sailscores.com/SCRSC/2026/iom-winter-handicap-series-aug-25
It was a very enjoyable afternoon of social IOM sailing.
I huge THANK YOU to all our sailors and club members who helped out running a very successful IOM National Championship . The traveling sailors all were incredibly impressed with the high standard we showed in staging this National event. There were many cogs in the admin wheel and all people did their best which contributed to a very smooth run event. The media coverage on YouTube, Facebook and What’s App with photos, videos and even drone shots was quite mind blowing. This is a new area I’m learning about.
Thanks for the team effort in packing up the buoybots and flags. Thanks to Tony Silver for picking up the trailer.
See you all on Saturday for our normal IOM sailing.
Happy sailing,
Simon K