Lord Birkett Trophy
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Topic: Lord Birkett Trophy
Posted By: mopuk2000
Subject: Lord Birkett Trophy
Date Posted: 30 Jun 16 at 1:30pm
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Hello folks. Anyone planning on going to Ullswater this weekend for the Birkett should look at the club's website. Looks like it's going to be a busy one!
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Posted By: fleaberto
Date Posted: 30 Jun 16 at 2:51pm
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I'll be there.
Forecast looking grim for an L-plated 600-er, so looks like the Lightning for me. I'm just hoping to get round this year after 2 fairly unsuccessful (but dramatic) failures recently  ------------- Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays' |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 01 Jul 16 at 7:02am
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My first time at the Birkett this weekend. Not sure I have fully recovered from last weekends D-Zero nationals but we shall see. ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: fleaberto
Date Posted: 04 Jul 16 at 5:06pm
OOF!  .... going to take a while to recover from that! Saturday - Best sailing day I've ever had. Despite the boat & I being separated by somewhere in the region of half a mile of the lake districts finest water!  Sunday - Flapping around in the front of an RS400 covering for a crew too traumatised from the day before. An awesome weekend!!  ------------- Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays' |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 05 Jul 16 at 8:37am
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It was a great event, shame I broke myself Saturday and couldn't sail Sunday, I was on for a good result. ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: jaydub
Date Posted: 05 Jul 16 at 11:56am
| Couldn't make it this year. looked like I missed an epic one! |
Posted By: ChrisI
Date Posted: 05 Jul 16 at 6:29pm
| Talk on the Saturday evening mentioned a safety boat recording one gust of 53 knots..... does any one from UYC have more information on this? |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 06 Jul 16 at 8:39am
I was told it was a mast head reading from one of the bigger boats that was out. Maybe one of the SB20's or the cruisers? ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 06 Jul 16 at 10:59am
I heard it was 64 knots! We chickened out of Saturday at the last minute then spent an hour or two up to our waists helping people launch and then helping those coming back early. Seeing the broken masts, ripped sails and other damage and the battered crews we felt it was the right decision. Also worth it just to be able to watch the leaders flying downwind past the club - 49er was so far out the water it appeared to be foiling as we could see quite a lot of daggerboard and the 800 was just a mist of spray! Sunday's sail was awesome, with a goose-winged run on one tack all the way from the island to the club - several miles! |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 06 Jul 16 at 11:33am
Not forgetting the 29er that had a meeting with a cruiser whilst being recovered by a rescue boat.... ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: AlanH
Date Posted: 06 Jul 16 at 12:20pm
| Yes Saturday was memorable. A lot of boats, both upwind and down decided to beach on the way. When there largely aren't beaches on the Lake, just rock, you had to be pretty desperate to beach your boat. Lots of capsizes by keelboats,both upwind and down, mostly the VX Ones who we were with upwind but a Soling also had a good try at capsizing downwind.Navigation was tricky, there were free swimmers floating about which you had to avoid. Then downwind, there was a VX One with crew floating about some way behind the boat. While the VX One sailed on! An Osprey helm also went out of the back of the boat, and after unwrapping the mainsheet from around his legs, he hitched a lift from a passing singlehander, holding onto the transom, till the singlehander caught up with his Osprey. He said it was pretty hard work holding on! Another sight was a D One surfing downwind under bare poles. Upwind was wild, we had to completely rag both main and jib at times, but apart from strength of wind, there was a huge ratio between gust and lull, and it was very shifty. Still upwind was easy compared with down wind, it was blowing. We were wearing round instead of gybing, but still fell in on one of the wear rounds. The Birkett is a great event, and this year's will stay in the memory! |
Posted By: fleaberto
Date Posted: 06 Jul 16 at 4:59pm
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Mind you, did you see the Thames A-Rater on Sunday? - how spectacular was that?
It wisely didn't go out on Saturday, but made for a brilliant sight on Sunday. Even if we nearly crashed into a Vago sailor whilst ogling the A-Rater near the start!
------------- Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays' |
Posted By: ChrisI
Date Posted: 06 Jul 16 at 5:42pm
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Yes, all fairly wild - we decided to head back under almost bare poles on the Saturday - but Sunday was very enjoyable.
Did you see the A-Rater returning to the club on Sunday? |
Posted By: Do Different
Date Posted: 06 Jul 16 at 10:05pm
| Given the accounts of Saturday. Matty & James Lyons sailing gods? A 49er! hardly a classic shifty & gusty lake boat. |
Posted By: ohFFsake
Date Posted: 13 Jul 16 at 12:11am
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Probably the windiest Birkett there has ever been and will ever be, for the simple reason that any more breeze and it wouldn't have started. I felt proud to be one of "the few" that finished Saturday's race, largely due to having a lump of cast iron underneath, though I should also admit that said lump of iron did see daylight at one point! As said above, Matty and James showed true star quality to get the 49er round without a single swim. Amazing stuff!
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