IOM Summer Series Round 5 at Lincoln Radio Sailing Club

by Roger Crates 16 Jun 2025 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:

Pos	Skipper	Sail No	Club/City	Hull	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	R11	R12	Pts
1	Darin Ballington	98		Britpop	2	1	1	1	2	5	1	1	6	4	1	5	19
2	Roger Crates	30		Venti	6	5	7	3	1	3	3	4	10	1	2	1	29
3	Rob Wilson	97		Britpop	5	6	2	4	9	1	2	2	5	9	3	2	32
4	Mick Chamberlain	46		Venti	1	4	4	10	3	4	4	7	3	3	4	6	36
5	Tim Hand	134		Britpop	11	2	11	2	7	2	8	5	1	2	6	15	46
6	Simon Fairman	71	Manor Park RSC	Alioth	8	3	3	5	5	6	6	3	7	11	7	4	49
7	Tracey Ballington	49		Britpop	4	7	5	11	4	10	7	13	4	5	9	8	63
8	Martyn Aspinall	91		Alioth	3	8	6	8	6	9	11	10	2	15	5	10	67
9	Jen Hand	69		Britpop	9	12	9	6	10	8	10	6	9	8	10	3	78
10	Colin Helliwell	77		Sedici	7	10	8	12	8	12	12	12	8	10	11	9	95
11	Mick Cooper	39		Venti	15	15	15	15	15	13	5	8	15	6	8	7	107
12	Roger Bowtle	58		Britpop	10	11	13	9	11	11	13	11	11	7	13	15	107
13	Brian Reeves	21		TNT	12	13	12	7	12	14	9	9	12	12	12	11	108
14	Adrian Cripps	80		Venti	13	9	10	15	13	7	14	15	15	15	15	15	126