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Club news
Lake of Sails
On June 7th Fleetwood were due to hold the its annual Lake of Sails Day. Unfortunately due to high winds it was not possible to put the boats on the lake.
Despite the bad weather we still had a good day inside the club house with raffles, boat exhibits and a hot pot lunch.
Scale Regatta day on Sun July 12th. Well the bad weather struck again with very high winds. We tried to run some of the events on the second round lake we have at FleetwoodDespite a valiant attempt by some skippers it was only a partial success. We have some vacant dates later in the year when we will try to run the postponed events.
In July we ran the MYA IOM ranking event Over the w/e of 4/5thJuly. This was rated a success from all who took part both from the racing and the social events.
In addition to the IOM racingFleetwood also staged a fun event based on R/C lasers and team racingthis was enjoyed by all and developed into a keen competitive event.
August 1st to the 7th saw the MYA Open Vane National Championships being held at Fleetwood. This was combined with the YW Cup held on the Wednesday. This proved to be an excellent sevendays of sailing with winds ranging from a flat calm to strong winds for a link to photo's of the event go to 2009 Vane MYA nationals
In addition to serious racing we again had social events andthe team racing based on R/C lasers this was enjoyed by all and again developed into a keen competitive event.
( thanks to all the laser skippers who provided loan boats for the two events ) |
Fleetwood Now has A Laser Fleet
Fleetwood RC Lasersis the newest RC Laser fleet in the North West. Last year it was decided to adopt the RC Lasers as one of its classes to be raced within the club.
The Laser Sailing section has a separate. Link to www.fleetwood.rclasers.com
It is the clubs intention in the first season of the Laser Fleet to hold sailing every alternate Sunday except when it conflicts with other organized North West Laser sailing dates and venues that had been previously scheduled.
FleetwoodModel Yacht and Power Boat Club have the following main activities during the sailing Season.
Schooners racing
We have thriving schooner, fleet that sails very WedAfternoon The majority of the boats have either been built from scratch or on redundant class racing yachthulls. They make excellent boats and look extremely well either on their own or in a Fleet.
One metre Sailing Tuesday Evening and some week ends
Mustang Racing
Like a big laser single sail.one design Fleetwood club only .
Come and see on a Tuesday afternoon. No new boats available now but secondhand boats are not expensive and someboats may be available for sale within the Club. A good fast fun sailor
Vane Sailing
Mainlyscheduled weekend dates for openmeetingsMablehead's and A class Boats. If you wantto try this interesting and exciting class
contact Peter Whiteside club secretary, You don't needa boat in the initiall stages, they always need crews to assisting in sailing these lovely boats
Power & Power Scale.
There is considerable interest in the club in building and sailing model power boats. It covers a wide range of themes encompassing all model power boat activities. |
