The fifth event in this year's Gill series will take place at Solway Yacht Club on 28 and 29 August. There is a briefing at SYC at 12.00 hrs with the first start at 13.15. Entry forms and NOR can be found on the Solway Yacht Club website at:
http://www.thesyc.co.uk/Files/2010%20Prog%20NORs%20etc/NOR%20N12.pdf (http://www.thesyc.co.uk/Files/2010%20Prog%20NORs%20etc/NOR%20N12.pdf)
Further details on Solway, accommodation, the local area etc can also be found on the next event section of this site.
Margaret and Ian Purkis are holding a barbeque party on the Saturday evening to which N12 sailors are invited - bring a bottle (and some food?).
Ian has said that if anyone is having problems organising accommodation, please call him as he may be able to help sort something out. Ian's number can be found in the information on our Next Event section of the website.
Ian and Solway YC would really appreciate an indication of who is intending to sail at Solway so could you either let Ian know or leave a post here please. It should be great - sunshine and wind are both booked for the weekend.:)
Eesh... I was planning to come down and poke some shiny boats but unfortunately I'm at a wedding in Perth that weekend. Harumph.
Roly Mo and Co will be there.
The cat in the hat will be making an appearance
Andy
Squidgy Bits will be making an appearance too.
The Copsey family will be there with 3411 & 3280
With the other boats who have said they are coming it looks like being a record fleet for this event which is fantastic news!
RM
Sallis family will be there. 3436 and 3531
Crazy Diamond will be there.
JerryG
N3500
By my reckoning that is at least 14 boats. Great news.
RM
I'm feeling ever more likely to drop by for the Sunday...
Rohan and Angus will be there, trying to break our jinx....we have yet to manage to finish a race at Solway!
Are there any spare crews?
Claire is unwell and cant come.
Place available in the front of the DCB
Andy
Sadly it would appear I won't be able to make it on Sunday for an ogle of the shiny boats.
Have a good time everyone 8)
Thanks to Ian and all at Solway for putting on an excellent event. The crews that volunteered were also very welcome, and I hope given the smiles coming off the water that we have given a very positive experience of our small boats. The wind was up, but we all managed to get off the water with minimal damage, despite many swims.
Thanks again
Andy
We unfortunately didn't manage to break our jinx after i managed to kick a hole in the boat in the first race on Saturday, then didn't fancy going out in a near gale in a boat held together with duck tape. So bailed out early to get Rohan home in time for the second half of his football match, unfortunately he could save his team going down 3-1.
Hope you all had a good day on Sunday.:o
Steve Sallis won three out of three races and the Scottish Championship. Race 4 was canceled, which was wise under the conditions on Sunday. The forecast was F5 to F6 gusting up to F8, and in reality probably not much less. In the last race Steve fouled the inner distance mark,seconds before the start. Was it the rudder wing that caught the anchor warp? The necessary 360 had to take place in a particularly wild gust, not the best moment for a gybe, which gave the fleet a minute's start on the favourite. Steve steadilly reeled in the fleet, and got his nose in front , right on the finish line. to pip Neal Piper for first place. A notable effort by Neal who was having his first sail in a (borrowed), twelve since he sold Cosmic Cowboy in 1993.
This is not an authorised report, merely observations from the committee boat where i was hiding, not having the courage to sail my "Foolish".
John Hugo
It was a great weekend - thanks to everyone involved and especially to Ian and Margaret for a wonderful party on Saturday night.
RM
Any pictures?
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!! A great weekend many thanks to Solway YC and all involved in organising the event and especially to Ian and Margaret Purkis for the excellent hospitality and for hosting a BBQ for the entire fleet as well as all the club helpers and members.
Thanks too for finding local crews for almost half the fleet and especially for the pairing me up with Fiona who seemed to know the estuary backwards and kept us off the mud despite the dissapearing water on Saturday. She didnt even mind when we retired on Sunday after a wild ride out and a hairy plane or two, suffice to say she is booked for next year! Well done to the six who did get round, it may not have looked too bad from the committee boat that John was on but it looked a tad hairy from the back of my D8 hence retiring to keep my bus pass dry.
Yes Howard, it looked decidedly hairy from the committee boat, and yes Kenny, I am told lots of photos were taken, and I gather some were being sent to Ian and also posted on the Solway web site. Pity you couldn't make it. It was well worth watching if you could get close enough to the action, and the social side was the best yet at Solway.
John