DF99 TT Series Round 18 at Lincoln Model Yacht Club

by Tim Long 8 Nov 2017 11:37 GMT 5 November 2017

DF95 TT at Lincoln © Tim Long & Ann Weston

For the final event in the DF TT for the DF95's we notched up a mere 5.5 miles again, this time under a big blue sky with some scudding fluffy clouds to show us that the breeze was definitely there. Although the breeze increased during the day, most survived in A suit all day.

An early kick off meant that there were still a few under-performing skippers during the morning session including John Tushingham who used two of his three discards in the first couple of races. Uncle Derek Priestley took the first from Tim Long and Buzz Coleman. Race 2 was Ken Binks from Buzz and Mike Weston and it wasn't until race 3 that John found the front of the fleet, however he wasn't to win another race until the afternoon session when he really perked up a bit.

In reality there was no stand-out performance from any one skipper today, there were consistency issues for many skippers who found the conditions challenging with almost all the skippers catching some weed (aka salad) in each race. Whilst it doesn't stop a DF95 dead like it can do with a 65, it does make a noticeable difference to the performance and if you could get in to remove it you certainly saw the difference, but could you cope with the places you lost in performing the task. And so began salad roulette.

In the end race wins were shared between the top five or so skippers with overall scores being a little higher than usual across the fleet.

The day ended with John top of the pile, Buzz sailed well to pip Mike to second by a single point with Ken in 4th, Derek 5th, Tim in 6th and Liz Tushingham in 7th having had a great days sailing.

Prizes were handed out as were the overall series prizes. So that concludes the 2017 DF Racing TT Series and with more than 150 skippers taking part we'll call it a success.

Next season kicks off at West Lancs in February when we will start another TT series.

Some of today's DF95 winners are pictured along with an indication of conditions during the day's racing.

Overall Results:

Pos	Skipper	Sail No	Club/City	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	R13	R14	R15	R16	Pts
1	John Tushingham	51	Keighley	7	4	1	4	2	2	4	2	7	2	2	1	1	3	1	1	26
2	Buzz Coleman	12	Coalhouse Fort	3	3	12	1	6	1	16	11	2	7	3	4	2	9	4	4	49
4	Ken Binks	83	Eastbourne	4	1	13	2	5	7	1	3	6	4	12	8	4	4	7	7	55
3	Mike Weston	69	Coalhouse Fort	13	2	2	6	4	8	6	14	12	1	1	3	9	1	5	2	50
6	Tim Long	99	Abersoch	2	5	9	8	7	13	7	7	5	6	14	2	3	5	3	8	68
5	Derek Priestley	67	Fleetwood	1	16	3	10	8	4	5	1	3	5.7	8	7	10	8	12	3	66.7
7	Liz Tushingham	71	Keighley	24	8	6	12	3	5	2	4	18	9	5	6	11	2	9	6	76
8	Peter Baldwin	172	Birkenhead	9	6	10	5	1	19	14	9	10	8	17	12	7	7	2	5	91
9	Mike Kemp	37	Two Islands	10	11	4	18	9	20	15	10	1	3	16	5	12	12	10	13	115
10	Tim Lanigan	420	Fleetwood	5	7	7	7	12	9	12	12	11	12	7	13	8	14	8	11	116
12	Chris More	102	Balne Moor	15	9	24	15	14	6	11	19	9	13	19	11	5	6	6	24	139
11	Chris Chatfield	183	Fleetwood	12	17	8	19	11	3	8	13	24	14	10	10	6	11	16	9	131
13	John Howard	29	Poole	14	20	5	9	13	14	17	6	13	15	4	18	18	16	15	17	158
14	Brian Holland	95	Abersoch	16	12	14	13	24	17	10	8	17	5	18	14	14	10	14	12	159
15	Garry Box	26	Manor Park	17	13	16	17	10	15	9	18	16	11	11	16	13	13	13	10	166
17	Dave Burke	46	Lincoln	6	19	17	3	18	7	3	5	4	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	178
16	Chris Moore	60	Ripon	11	14	11	24	24	18	18	16	8	10	13	9	17	24	17	15	177
18	Phil Read	35	Doncaster	8	15	19	14	17	11	21	17	15	24	15	17	16	15	11	14	185
19	Paul Turner	114	Eastbourne	18	10	20	11	16	12	20	21	19	18	9	15	15	18	18	16	195
20	Gordon Bennett	38	Lincoln	19	18	18	16	15	10	19	15	14	16	6	24	24	24	24	24	214
21	Ed Whittaker	31	Lincoln	21	24	22	24	24	21	22	22	20	17	20	19	19	17	19	18	257
22	Alan Edgar	890	Lincoln	20	21	21	20	19	16	13	20	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	270
23	Tony Marshall	268	Hove	24	24	15	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	303