Hampton Court MYC this coming weekend?

[RobVice_GBR41]

Anyone else considering racing at Hampton Court’s fabulous lake this weekend. Forecast looks good as it’s saying dry, double digit temperature and wind strength !

[stevevw]

I have entered Rob.

[Downbytheriver]

I am also entered - see you there

[RobVice_GBR41]

After delaying the festive house decorations I went to visit another London based yacht club for great day’s racing in decent full top suit breeze. 
The Hampton Court club offered a warm welcome and importantly a club house during a rainy morning (so much for the dry forecast!)

10 boats entered, 9 turned up and 1 retired early but still a good entry for a late season open race. 
The racing started at 10:30 as promised by RO Colin Trower who was also joining in the racing as the theme of the day was for a social yet competitive event. 

 
As the breeze was slightly south of the lake’s natural orientation a two lapped, dog leg course with two windward beats set offset ( think of a wonky zig zag) towards the south, the shift breeze gave good chance for overtaking and the long run down the lake allowed for different lines depending upon the shifts. 
For anyone who hasn’t visited this beautiful club, it has a rich history of free sailing and sits within the grounds of royal hunting grounds and where dear can still be seen roaming. It is a natural banked, roughly rectangular lake so unless you use the launching stage, wellies come in handy (Local members are happily offered their assistance). 

After lunch the wind shifted to better align with the lake and a more conventional course was set to benefit from a long ‘simple’ beat and run. 
As the daylight started to fade the breeze eased a little giving new challenges.

So what about the results? Well they are soon to appear on the hcmyc.org website so I can’t be sure, but the winner was clear as I think she only failed to win once or twice during the 8 race day so well done to Julia Hancock with her Sword, followed by Colin Trower with his Sword and then I think it was my Sweet5. My thanks to everyone who made this an enjoyable days racing.

 I understand that conversations have been had by class captain and the 2025 A class calendar is soon to be released. So we can all decide on which events to put into our diaries for next year.  I look forward to more visits to HCMYC after some more tweaks to my Sweet and future A class races..

Now where are those Christmas lights?

[Downbytheriver]

Thanks for all your help on Sunday Rob, much appreciated - Stan