IOM Summer Series Round 4 at Lincoln Radio Sailing Club
by Roger Crates 1 Jun 19:50 BST
1 June 2025
IOM Summer Series Round 4 at Lincoln Radio Sailing Club © Micky Boy
Wow, what an intense and enjoyable morning's racing, June 1st, at Scotland farm was, for the 14 skippers who opted to race.
Thank you first, to Pete Walters, our OOD for setting a windward /leeward course on the east bank and to Roger Bowtle, our assistant OOD who very kindly volunteered to take control of the starts, which on a windy, gusty, shifty day was a challenge in itself.
The forecast 12 to 14 Knots gusting into the 20's arrived by 10am and all skippers opted for the B rig.
We are very happy to welcome a new IOM skipper to the fleet, Brian Reeves, welcome Brian. He had a very commendable 6th place finish in race 10 and 7th place finish in race 6, very good for a first time out.
Well done Brian.
Race 1 was convincingly won by Rob Wilson, who unfortunately developed winch issues and had to retire after race 4, with Tim Hand in 2nd and Mick Chamberlin in 3rd place with RogerC finishing in 8th place.
RogerC was seen rapidly retuning his Venti and it must have paid off, because he went on to win race2 from Pete Walters 2nd with a consistent MickC in 3rd.
MickC showed real form in race 3, winning the race ahead of RogerC 2nd and Darin Ballington in 3rd.
The wind continued to be a gusty South Westerly with significant left, right shifts catching out a lot of skippers and making getting off the start line a challenge.
Race 4 saw RogerC find some pace and he went on to win the next 4 races.
With the strong wind and the speed of the boats, racing was frenetic with 11 races sailed, including having a coffee break after race 5.
Not bad for a morning's fun.
MickC went on to win again in race 8 but overall his consistency was not there, going on to finish the day 4th on 39 points.
The final overall results being RogerC on 12 points with 6 wins and 3 seconds followed by TimH on 32 points and PeteW on 34.
Well done to everybody who competed, on a day that challenged your strong wind boat handling skills.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Skipper | Sail No | Hull | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | Roger Crates | 30 | Venti | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| 2 | Tim Hand | 134 | Britpop | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 32 |
| 3 | Pete Walters | 65 | Venti | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 34 |
| 4 | Mick Chamberlain | 46 | Venti | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 39 |
| 5 | Darin Ballington | 98 | Britpop | 5 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 50 |
| 6 | Martyn Aspinall | 91 | Alioth | 10 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 50 |
| 7 | Sam Parker | 59 | Venti | 7 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 59 |
| 8 | Paul Kelly | 44 | V10 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 72 |
| 9 | Colin Helliwell | 77 | Sedici | 4 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 73 |
| 10 | Jen Hand | 69 | Britpop | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 74 |
| 11 | Mick Cooper | 39 | Venti | 11 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 77 |
| 12 | Brian Reeves | 21 | TNT | 12 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 91 |
| 13 | Rob Wilson | 97 | Britpop | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 94 |
| 14 | Kevin Evison | 87 | Britpop | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 110 |