IOM Summer Series Round 8 at Lincoln Model Yacht Club

by Darin Ballington 4 Aug 12:18 BST 3 August 2025

The first weekend of August 2025. The Lions complete their victory over Australia in the Lions tour. Mimi Rhodes gets a hole in one at the women's Open, Lando Norris wins in Hungary, and England are making a great fist of the run chase against India. None of these are anywhere near the competition at Scotland Farm.

The Lincoln Radio Sailing summer series is white hot competition, even at peak holiday time we had 13 skippers turn out for round 8, boosted with the welcome visitors of Ben and Hayden Wallace from Huntingdon.

ODs Darin and Tracey set a good course for the SW breeze and working at a good lick managed to complete 9 races between 10.00 am and 1.00pm, Tracey even persuaded Darin to give a 15min break in the middle!

The nine races had six different winners often as a gaggle crossing the line within inches of each other with all skippers finishing on the same leg of the course despite being the full length of the lake, well done to all skippers for their attitude and approach to the racing, especially given the dousing that everyone received in race 1 and 2 when the skies deposited large quantities of water on us. The wind momentarily died but generally stayed around for the morning and gave fantastically tight racing.

On countback Darin took the day from Rob Wilson, but I don't think anyone left knowing who had won it was that close.

The results show the winners but everyone had a great time and the standard of racing was top notch.

Lookout for the next club race day and posts about the next extended day and pop up open meeting. Everyone is welcome at the farm.

Oh, and worth mentioning that the water is superb with no hint of weed to impact the racing. How lucky are we at Scotland Farm.

Overall Results:

Pos	Hull	Sail No	Skipper	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	Pts
1	Britpop	98	Darin Ballington	3	3	1	2	9	1	8	1	3	14
2	Britpop	97	Rob Wilson	2	2	2	1	3	4	2	3	2	14
3	Venti	30	Roger Crates	5	6	13	3	1	2	1	2	4	18
4	Venti	46	Mick Chamberlain	4	5	5	4	12	11	3	4	1	26
5	Venti	59	Sam Parker	1	13	6	6	4	3	7	6	11	33
6	Alioth	91	Martyn Aspinall	8	1	3	7	5	9	6	5	10	35
7		71	Ben Wallace	11	4	9	5	6	5	5	7	5	37
8	Britpop	69	Jen Hand	13	8	8	13	2	6	4	8	7	43
9	Venti	39	Mick Cooper	6	9	4	10	11	7	10	9	6	51
10	Sedici	77	Colin Helliwell	7	7	7	8	10	8	11	12	9	56
11		88	Hayden Wallace	12	12	10	12	8	10	9	11	8	68
12	TNT	21	Bryan Reeves	9	10	11	11	7	13	12	10	12	70
13	Britpop	49	Tracey Ballington	10	11	12	9	13	12	13	13	13	80