Dalgety Bay Sailing Club Annual Regatta
by David Burnett 12 May 2003 08:46 BST
10-11 May 2003
Dalgety Bay Sailing Club held its annual regatta over the 10-11 May. 60 boats came from far and wide to compete, including Oban, Lochaber, Aberdeen and Derwent Reservoir. Winnings were spread equally amongst the visitors and local sailors.
With winds forecast to hit force 6+, it was going to be a tough weekend for everyone, with strong, blustery conditions over both days. To the credit of race officer John Robertson, 5 races were run in conditions that made setting courses very challenging.
6 classes were raced, Lasers, Radials, Fast and Slow Asymmetrics and Fast & Slow Handicaps. Everything from Hurricane and Spitfire cats to Toppers were represented.
Racing was fast and furious, with thrills and spills aplenty, keeping the rescue fleet very busy. Robbie Wilson, hitting 20 knots with the kite up in his RS800, twitched his tiller whilst negotiating a wall of Lasers coming up the beat had one of many spectacular capsizes seen. Young Josh Gebhard and Simon Evans pitchpoled their RS200 with Dave and Isobel Burnett getting simply blown over in their Stratos 20 metres from the finish in the last race!
Competitors went away tired and bruised, but exhilarated, having experienced some of the best sailing that the Forth has to offer.
Dalgety Bay SC produced a great meal and social on Saturday night with a disco for anyone with any energy left.
The organising team thanks all the competitors, organisers and helpers for making the weekend a success.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Boat Type | Sail No | Boat Name | Helm | Crew | Club | Pts |
|---|
| 1st | Fast Asymmetric | 90 | Spitfire Cat | Chris Browning | Valeri Browning | PEYC | 10 |
| 1st | Slow Asymmetric | 255 | Laser Stratos | Dave Burnett | Isobel Burnettq | DBSC | 5 |
| 1st | Fast Handicap | 673 | Contender | Neil Wilson | | Holy Loch SC | 5 |
| 1st | Slow Handicap | 42990 | Topper | Andrew Conn | | Derwent Reservoir SC | 5 |
| 1st | Laser | 174907 | Laser | Peter Malcolm | | ASYC | 7 |
| 1st | Radial | 164488 | Laser Radial | Katherine Ward | | ASYC | 12 |