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Our " Aero " At The Euro's
While we try to get a good sail down at Beaver in the unpredictable British weather , Martin Penty is out putting his formidable sailing skills to the test at the RS Aero European Championships at the beautiful Lake Garda Italy .
This is Martin's first official outing in the new Aero , after only two trial races down at Beaver and has had a very credible start , laying 21 overall out of a strong 63 fleet in the Aero 7 class , with a top ten finish in the seven races sailed .
Wednesday Points 2 . 21.8.19
A strange night , dull and overcast , but at least a good wind to carry our seven single handed craft around the lake , all managing four laps before our final Mirror crossed the finish line , with just enough light left to get packed away .
Stu and Rob kindly stepped in , to run the evening's race , giving our busy Commodore a chance to sail , as Quentin along with Peter Hone , Malc Ellwood , Nicole , Rob and Stu have all helped to cover for those unexpectedly not able to do thier ROD .
The first beat from one to drop buoy six situated between five and four buoy certainly seemed to be the leg that sorted the final positions on the water , before any calculations were taken into consideration , with all craft finishing strangely enough in this order .
Mathew Winter took an early lead as predicted , with Peter Hone just nudging ahead of the Supanova of Angus , who surprisingly couldn't get the best of the highly tuned outfit of Peter's Laser .
Quentin pulled clear of our only other Streaker of the evening helmed by Tim Bell , who after a good start , sailed the old Streaker pretty well , in view of its age and crispness of the sack for a sail .
Malc's magic continued from where he left off last time on the water , leaving Richard bewildered on how he managers to inch his way ahead of the Drift King , in view of the fact of having one sail less .
With only one Wednesday evening to go , let's hope there's a good turn out to finish the series on a bang .
Results
1.Malc Ellwood Mirror
2.Mathew Winter Laser
3.Richard Rennie Mirror
4.Quentin Tupper Streaker
5.Peter Hone Laser
6.Angus Illingworth Supanova
7.Tim Bell Streaker
Wednesday Points 2
Our expectations of a bit of a blower and probably a wet one at that were somewhat delusional , as with in minutes into the race the wind died and probably went after the rain that seemed to be drenching the rest of Yorkshire .
The figure of eight course seemed the perfect recipe for the prevailing winds on arrival at the club and our ROD Andy with Jack and Rob were left thinking the course was a little adventurous , as the eight contenders struggled to complete two laps .
Angus the Supanova ace and maintaining a regular appearance since joining the club , took a firm grip on the lead , with Mathew Winter our usual leader , left leading the rest on the first beat upto three from two bouy .
Jon Aldhous is certainly pleased to be back on the water with the little used new Streaker , but with Bob Towler mastering his , Jon was left sweating , as Bob sailed an excellent race to pull up with in boat lengths as the race drew to a close .
The Drift king Richard Rennie was left in no doubt that another victory was about to be notched up as he was hot on the tails of Peter Hone , Stu and Tim Bell and looked at one point he would pass the three with the wind filled spinnaker on the run from four down to one buoy .
Stu managed to front the two Laser's of Peter and Tim , but with another poor performance and striking a buoy , was left with a 360 penalty and had to settle for watching the Laser's fight tooth and nail down to the finish on two .
Results
1.Richard Renie . Mirror
2.Angus Illingworth. Supanova
3.Jon Aldhous Streaker
4.Bob Towler Streaker
5.Mathew Winter Laser
6.Stu Streaker
7.Peter Hone Laser
8.Tim Bell Laser.
Wednesday Points 2 7.8.19
Stu as always was down early , joined by sidekick Rob , to prepare for the evening's racing and with a good wind set a figure eight course giving a couple of good reaches airing to runs , taking advantage of the spritely conditions .
With the first beat down to five from drop buoy six and being port bias , those that took advantage opened an instant lead , no more so than Mathew Winter openning an uncatchable lead just minutes into the race .
Angus our Supanova champ settled nicely into second spot with Peter Hone hot on his stern , followed by Tim Bell , Quentin , Richard Rennie , Luke Dickinson , Malc , Jo and let us not foreget young Timo Dickinson testing his skills in the Optimist .
As the race progressed the top three places were firmly set and with Tim Bell precariously going over on the reach upto six buoy , the Streaker of Quentin took advantage to pull infront lifting nicely onto the plane to pass poor Tim .
Luke Dickinson was able to use the perfect conditions to the advantage of the Topper and managed to front the two Mirrors coming into the second lap , but as the wind eased , the three sails of the Mirror Bandits overwhelmed the single sail to regain their original positions .
Although Richard Rennie had opened a significant lead on Malc , I can only compare these two , to Stu and Quentin , with both Malc and Quentin no matter how far back , in most cases seem to weedle themselves to the front .
Jo after a quick dip prior to the race was probably feeling a little cold and certainly seemed to dampen his performance , falling well of the pace in the Qba and son Timo with a credible first lap chose to to come in , after an incident hurting his foot .
With the wind plummeting to gentle breeze and the night drawing in at rapid rate of knots , the Laser of Mathew Winter took a well sailed victory , out classing all his rivals on the night and lapping all the slower craft .
Results
1.Mathew Winter Laser
2.Malc Ellwood Mirror
3.Richard Rennie Mirror
4.Angus Illingworth Supanova
5.Peter Hone Laser
6.Quentin Tupper Streaker
7.Luke Dickinson Topper
8.Tim Bell Laser
10.Jo Dickinson Qba
12 . Timo Dickinson Optimist
Thanks to Stu and Rob with a successful ROD and Liz Hone as alwsys on race fees .
August Points Handicap Series
With the sun beating down on us and a wind ideal for all , we were upto an healthy seventeen , with Peter Hone , Paul Browning and Harry Smith adding to three Laser's of the EarlyBird , making the Laser's our largest fleet out today .
How different two races can be , the same course , probably more defined wind shifts and different faces threatening the leaders
The Power of Penty was relinquished and after Thomas's early victory over dad , Martin was out to prove his superiority in the New Areo and soon broke clear , to give chase to our two leaders the RS800 and Richard Hanby helming the RS300 .
Steve Winter was again in the lime light , with the Streaker of Stu pulling clear of the pack to bring himself within boat lengths of the Laser pro as the race progressed .
Harry Smith after a poor start ,after rescuing his cap , clawed his way through the field and at one point looked like he had got the better of Stu , before Stu somehow opened up a good lead again .
The Supanova's of Angus and John Manning , were unexpectedly well down , leaving Peter Hone and Quentin edging closer on the Laser of Harry .
Nick Bell was again happy to fluster dad with Tim's patience tested to the limit as young Nick took him for a song and dance as the rest pulled clear .
Paul Browning joined Tim Bell in virtually the same place on buoy four , to bring our casualties upto two Laser's on the day .
Malc again pulled clear of Richard , leaving us to ask whether the spinacker actually makes any difference as Malc defies all the laws of sail power .
The wind again sprung to life for the final race of the day , with it being more beneficial to Harry Smith as he took the top spot of the Laser's , opening a good lead on Steve and the chasing pack .
Tim Bell after a poor start and eager to prove his worthiness after two poor races was almost there , but somehow lost the lead over Quentin, Peter and Stu on the last beat upto 4 bouy and down to the finish on one , as Stu had done in the previous lap .
Our ultimate victor of the day was our Mirror man Malc , as again he somehow slid under the radar to clinch a worthy three victories , putting him firmly at the top of the leader board .
We were lucky to miss out on the rain and I'm sure everyone went truly content after a glorious day at Beaver .
Thanks to our ROD'S Emma and James and Helen and Liz for holding the fort in the galley .
Sunday's Racing 4.8.19
Although we are firmly into the depths of the summer holidays , a strong thirteen made it out onto the waters for the Early Bird 2 hosted by our young couple Emma Grayson and James Penty .
While James helped with the ROD , dad Martin and brother Thomas , were otherwise engaged in putting the Porsche of the sailing world through its paces , introducing Beaver to the flash RS Aero .
It was no shock to us all to find Martin Penty leading the pack , with a stiff breeze , proving to be ideal conditions for our supremo' .
High flyers Sam Waller and Ollie soon got the RS800 powered up to warp factor 2 and flew into the lead , with the virtual impossible task of notching up a significant amount of laps , to bring them anywhere in contention on the final results .
Laser man Steve Winter , familiar to the front spot settled nicely into forth place on the water , watching on , as father and son fort tooth and nail with each other , before young Thomas Penty wore down his father tactically , to hold onto a strong second place .
Steve Hanby and Brian , would have preferred a little more wind to give the high powered RS200 the edge on the rest , but at least had a race and as with all our Handicap Race's there's always some one close to do battle with .
Angus eased ahead of the pack , leaving Stu
fronting the trailing pack , hesitantly waiting for the persistence of the wonder boy of the Streaker's Quentin , who seems to have that uncanny way of snatching Stu's victory at death's door , to Stu's misery .
Tim and Nick Bell all tanned up from their recent holiday , couldn't have chosen a better day to return and in Tim's case to take a quick dip , as son Nick forced the error to leave Tim tumbling over on buoy 4 , as Nicks grin , laser and all pulled clear to give a comprehensive victory over dad .
The two Mirrors of Richard and Malc , started as always neck and neck , before Malc gave Richard the slip and as the wind eased , left the bandits potentially our winners .
John Manning , was left bewildered with the depleted wind , to the more adventurous wind we started in , leaving the twin hulled dart some what lacking in power and obviously turned out to be the wrong choice in John's ever increasing personal collection of boats .
Results as photo
Beaver on tour - Martin the winner of the Carter trophy for first single hander at Morston Regatta this week
