IOM Summer Series Round 8 at Lincoln Model Yacht Club
by Darin Ballington 4 Aug 2025 12:18 BST
3 August 2025
Darin Ballington and Martyn Aspinall - IOM Summer Series Round 8 at Lincoln (Scotland Farm) © Mick Chamberlain
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 |
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| 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 |