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IOM Summer Series Round 5 at Lincoln Radio Sailing Club

by Roger Crates 16 Jun 07:53 BST 15 June 2025

More fantastic racing at Lincoln for round five of the summer series. It was tricky, shifty, gusty conditions for the 14 skippers who took part in Lincoln Radio Sailing Club's Sunday series round 5.

Simon Fairman from Manor Park joined us for the day, to work up his Alioth Mk3 and showed good speed at times, recording three 3rd place finishes on the gloriously sunny day.

A big thank you goes to Greg Codling, assistant RO and Roger Crates, RO. They set a predominantly windward/leeward course, angled to the West bank, with the start line having an inner distance mark and a choice of 3 outer distance marks, making it possible to rapidly realign the start line for a port bias as the wind oscillated. There were barely two consecutive races with the same start line, it was that unpredictable.

A fast Mick Chamberlain won the first race ahead of Darin Ballington, recently returned from his brilliant 3rd place at the Marblehead Worlds, and Martyn Aspinall took 3rd. Mick and Martyn have some head scratching to do, where did the boat speed go after that?

Darin B has found his IOM form again and went on to win the next 3 races, winning a total of 6 out for the twelve races sailed and taking the days series overall with 19 points. In a distant second place was Roger Crates with 3 wins and a 29 point total, closely followed by Rob Wilson on 32.

As always there was close and enjoyable racing throughout the fleet, including for our octogenarian of the day, Mick Cooper. Happy Birthday Mick and best wishes from all of us at the club.

Overall Results:

PosSkipperSail NoClub/CityHullR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9R10R11R12Pts
1Darin Ballington98 Britpop21112511641519
2Roger Crates30 Venti657313341012129
3Rob Wilson97 Britpop56249122593232
4Mick Chamberlain46 Venti144103447334636
5Tim Hand134 Britpop11211272851261546
6Simon Fairman71Manor Park RSCAlioth833556637117449
7Tracey Ballington49 Britpop47511410713459863
8Martyn Aspinall91 Alioth386869111021551067
9Jen Hand69 Britpop912961081069810378
10Colin Helliwell77 Sedici710812812121281011995
11Mick Cooper39 Venti1515151515135815687107
12Roger Bowtle58 Britpop1011139111113111171315107
13Brian Reeves21 TNT121312712149912121211108
14Adrian Cripps80 Venti1391015137141515151515126

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