Draycote Dash

See the vids on the Facebook draycote windsurfers page- then decide if your an optimist or a pessimist!

FWIW - if I sailed a dagger on anything other than a Laser I wouldn't bother.... but that's not towing the party line!

Hi all,

Sorry only just seen this. Until recently the water was about 5-6ft away from the end of the nearest slip in the photo above so it is definitely coming in.

Obviously the water level is still low as James has very helpfully already pointed out, nobody will deny that, but at least it has been coming up - albeit slowly. While we are not where we'd ideally be levelwise, the club decided we could provide some good racing at the Dash. The courses will be set to try to avoid the worst areas and while we cannot guarantee that you won't run aground, instances should be very few and far between. I've sailed through most of the winter at Draycote, and all through the end of last year when the lake was at its shallowest and have not touched the bottom once but know some have (mainly before the areas were marked). It is definitely a case of making sure you know where the buoys are that surround the shallow areas and making sure you stay outside them.

If you are coming to the dash we will be doing all we can to make sure that everyone knows where the shallow parts of the lake are and if anyone is unsure and wants to make certain they know then please just ask.

Look forward to seeing everyone at the weekend.

Steve you've got a bit of competition - I see your brothers entered in his new boat!

Chris

Originally posted by Fraggle Why is it always windy in the week and sod all at the weekends recently?

My understanding is that, roughly speaking, at our latitude the depressions tend to be vaguely spaced about a week apart, so you can get into a sequence like that. Could easily be wrong of course...


Edited by JimC - 21 Feb 12 at 4:38pm

It'll be fine come the weekend. There's always wind at Draycote. Windguru is showing 14-24 knots on Sunday now. XCWeather needs to get its house in order though.

Looked up quite a lot on the webcam today I thought.  Let's hope it's the windguru forecast which dominates!  (Steve - XCWeather looks Ok if you look at the Cv23 postcode forecast).