MYA Scottish District IOM Travellers 3 – Forfar Loch, Saturday 14th October 2023

In summary – as good as it gets!

Autumn sunshine and plenty of wind from the WNW blessed the fleet of twelve IOMs from across Scotland gathered at Forfar Loch for the last event in the Scottish District calendar for 2023. Hosted by Tayside RSC, seven clubs were represented with four from the east coast and three from the west coast. The fleet ranged from home designs, built at home with homemade sails to a 3D printed boat and the latest state of the art professionally constructed yachts – all were represented at some stage during the event at the front end of the fleet.

The first race was sailed with #1 rig but soon everyone changed to #2 and at one stage even #3 rig was being considered to handle some of the gusts. Signs were ominous from the first races that Steve Taylor from Aberdeen, sailing his relatively new Venti design, was going extremely quickly and was going to be the boat to beat in the prevailing fresh conditions. Tich Summers from the host club sailing his home designed and built Buzz III, and no doubt with a little local knowledge, was sailing consistently well. Stewart Teasdale from Kinghorn, sailing his BritPop, took a while to settle in the conditions but soon started to record good results. Further back a midfield tussle emerged between Richard Rowan, Gordan Allison, Ian Dundas and Malcolm Worsley. In the challenging conditions, Colin McGinnis, Simon Thomson and Bob Wilson were also keeping each other honest whereas David Smith regrettably retired after Race 5.

The overall winner was Steve Taylor with Tich Summers  2nd and Stewart Teasdale 3rd.

Many thanks were extended to the Tayside RSC race team volunteers and to Forfar Sailing and Water Sports Club for again opening up their full facilities and providing exceptional catering throughout the day.

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