Dragon Force 65 Wednesday racing at Fleetwood Model Yacht Club
by Tony Wilson 29 Jul 2016 12:46 BST
27 July 2016
Dragon Force 65 Wednesday racing at Fleetwood © Tony Wilson
Every Wednesday during the Summer months, the Dragons at Fleetwood meet for a couple of hours of fun sailing.
This week was the first sailing of the third series 2016 during the Summer months.
There was an 18:30 start time to aim for about eight races in total.
From the 8 races sailed this week, we had four individual skippers posting a first place from the 12 skippers present.
Chris Chatsfield was crowned the overall winner for the day, with John Plant coming second and Eric Reid making third place.
B rigs used mainly through out with the odd stock A sail that's comes with the ready made boat.
A good steady wind of about 13 - 15 mph for the whole evening and it remained dry with average cloud cover.
At the end summary, Derek gave us a clarification on the 4 boat length rule when approaching a buoy.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Skipper | Sail No | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | Chris Chatfield | 183 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | John Plant | 167 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| 3 | Eric Reid | 698 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
| 4 | Eddie Greenwood | 363 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 21 |
| 5 | Mark Rose | 24 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 23 |
| 6 | Garry Benson | 688 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 28 |
| 7 | Paul Reid | 84 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 32 |
| 8 | Harry Norris | 355 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 43 |
| 9 | Ken Crabtree | 49 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 48 |
| 10 | David Rose | 47 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 51 |
| 11 | Mike Benson | 83 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 56 |
| 12 | Ian Hawtin | 1032 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 69 |