First Fling at Loch Earn Sailing Club
by Colin Tait 5 May 2007 08:38 BST
28-29 April 2007
A mixed fleet for the First Fling at Loch Earn Sailing Club © Steve Foster
Loch Earn Sailing Club hosted their Annual First Fling Regatta over the weekend of the 28th - 29th April. Excellent weather greeted the 37 boats, sunshine and a force 2-3 Easterly wind, which remained throughout the weekend.
The Scottish Tasars used the event as their first Traveller event of the year(separate report). They were joined by a single hander handicap fleet and a double hander handicap fleet.
Race officer Craig Moffett set some excellent courses around the clubs fixed marks, changing the course for each of the 4 races, which kept everyone out of their comfort zone and scrambling for pencils and bits of paper!
Overall Results:
Single Hander Fleet:
1st Moth 4060, 'Predator'Paul Hignett (Vennachar Sailing Club) 3pts
2nd Blaze 721, 'Wicked' Paul Soudan (Helensburgh Sailing Club) 7pts
3rd Laser Radial 173552, 'Does Ma Bum Look Big In This' (LESC) 7pts
4th Blaze 521, Mervin Wright (Helensburgh Sailing Club) 9pts
Double Hander Fleet:
1st RS200 689, Roy McCubbin & Kirsty McSeeveney 4pts
2nd FF 3451, 'Hard Grafft' Hugh Simpson & D.Watkins 4pts
3rd SB3 3165, 'Rub-A-Dub-Dub' Tom Taylor, Mark Champion & Lyall Dochard 10pts
4th FF 3403, 'Stork' Ian Cuthbert & D.Burt 15pts