Did you get out today? What you in, how'd u do?

yesterday was the first day of our winter series at Tynemouth, although we de-camp to a lake at Druridge bay for the winter as the north sea can be a bit hostile in the dark months. 17 boats on the water yesterday which was great to see. The lake management had tied hay bales to some of the marks' retaining lines, in the fight against blue green algae - don't know how successful this is, but the water was lovely and clear and at least it avoids the blue dye that some places use. 

no, we moved winter venue about 3/4 years ago  - the tyne has become a bit silted up upstream of the toon and so the sailing window became a bit narrow.

Impressive; a couple of months ago I spent a day with Howard and he was telling me what a good series it’s become. Likely too hot for me 😅

Our lake is really empty. It went down to 37% full. It's a long walk to the water and launching, then getting out to the deep water, is muddy and difficult. We had to cancel all opens and eventually all racing ( except an adults Vs kids race last weekend).   I've been out in my contender the once in the last 6 weeks; it was like sailing in the bottom of a canyon .. stoppy starty wind. All a bit sh*t right now.

Forecast yesterday 15 to 25mph winds... We got 1.5 to 2.5 mph winds.. High tide on the river was 9:30ish first race was 10:45, second 12:00. So in both races we were battling against a up to 3 mph tide and lack of wind. This meant keeping in very close to the edges out of the main flow of the river...