Shed load of misery befell the Mayland Bay fleet

Day 3: A shed load of misery befell the Mayland fleet, as a dank grey day dawned with low cloud and a day of light airs sailing got under way, for until now the fleet has had the joy of goodly breezes and sunshine all be that it has been some what a tad nippy.

Nigel Whiting had the misfortune to be in charge of the race box when the fleet came to a standstill against the incoming tide on a disappearing northerly breeze off of the north salting point and after an hour had passed the race abandon flag was flown.

Sad to say, some resentment was voiced by the fleet as for the first time in many years Jacko and Lorna were missing from the racing due to a car MOT failure. The MOT failure and the race being abandoned saving the non sailing Jacko was all a bit too much. The second race of the day was not sailable with no wind at all.

Day 4 was a shocker with a 1 degree wind chill, horizontal rain and 16 knots gusting 25 knots from the north, The BBC weather report saw off the fleet leaving only the desperate looking out at the seagulls flying backwards.

After the pub with no beer the next saddest place on the planet is the sailing club with no sailing.

There is a rumour that the Maylandsea Bay sailing club is to open a new series to dinghy sailors that are not to sure what sailboat racing is all about.

We can see that this will be a good laugh as it is again rumoured that some of the leading Mayland sailboat racers are involved.

Questions like “is Lorna to be giving instructions to helms” and will Jacko be explaining how to run over race marks? All will be revealed we are sure.

But we do know that the galley will be active, that the old salts in the club are a warm friendly bunch, and that Phil the commodore is leading the Splat the Duck frostbite competition. More info can be had at the club.

Next race day March 14th at 10:05 races 5 and 6

More info at http://www.maylandseabay-sc.org.uk/

Results

Overall

1st   Alan Jackson and Lorna Laval       Merlin 3 Points

2nd  Peter Playle                                 Laser 8 Points

3rd  Jenny Ball                                    Laser Radial 11 Points

4th   Dave Russell and Gary Jackson     Lark 15 Points