IOM Scottish Travellers Event 2 & District Championship – Paisley – 20th May 2006
Report by Richard Rowan Score sheet The second event in the 2006 Scottish IOM Travellers attracted what is the largest entry for a Scottish event in recent years – 18 boats took part on the day. As the entries rolled…
North East Clubs 2006 Early Series Summary report
The North East Clubs winter series continued in early 2006 from February through to April 2006 with monthly events being held at Buchanness, Aberdeen and Brechin. This year the programme was slipped one month in an attempt to avoid the…
IOM Scottish Travellers Event 1 – Aberdeen – 22nd April 2006
Report by Ian Dundas Score sheet The first event in the Scottish IOM Travellers attracted a record entry of 16 boats well up on the average of 10 boats seen in the 2005 series. This event would trial the use…
North East Clubs 2006 Early Series Event 3 – Brechin – 9th April 2006
The trend of smaller turnouts continued at the Brechin event with 6 boats entered. School holidays, offshore rotas and the last blasts of winter weather were cited as reasons. The good news was that 2 new participants joined the fleet…
North East Clubs 2006 Early Series Event 2 – Aberdeen – 18th March 2006
Two visitors from the Brechin Club, Ralph Knowles and Mel Percival, made the journey to Aberdeen to join three local skippers and Shaky Bill from Buchanness for the second event in the early 2006 winter series. Participation was down on…
North East Clubs 2006 Early Series Event 1 – Buchanness – 25th February 2006
Six skippers congregated at Buchanness for the first of the North East Early 2006 Series. There were three visitors from Aberdeen and three skippers from the local club. Those from further south who had planned to attend called off due…
North East Clubs 2005 Late Series Summary report
The late 2005 North East Clubs three race winter series sailed in IOM`s at Brechin, Aberdeen and Buchanness Clubs was won by Colin Brown from Buchanness sailing an Italiko. Attendance was slightly down on the early 2005 series with 16…
North East Clubs 2005 Late Series Event 3 – Buchanness – 17th December 2005
Five skippers gathered at Peterhead for the 3rd and final round of the 2005 N/E Travellers Late Series. The skippers decided that, because of the small turnout and because it was a “fun event”, the event would be sailed without…
North East Clubs 2005 Late Series Event 2 – Aberdeen – 19th November 2005
Despite a bitterly cold forecast there was a good turnout for the second event in the North East Clubs winter series. Four local skippers were joined by 3 visitors from the Brechin and 3 from the Buchanness clubs. The hard…
North East Clubs 2005 Late Series Event 1 – Brechin – 23rd October 2005
Brechin was the place to be on Sun 23rd – while it was p….sing down all day in Aberdeen and Dundee, we had a dry overcast day with a light NE wind at Brechin. Ten modern fast IOM’s entered with…
NE Scotland – SW England Clubs IOM Invitation Event
North East Scotland / South West England Clubs IOM Invitation Event Peterhead and Aberdeen 1st and 2nd October 2005 Following on from friendships established at UK ranking events, the North East of Scotland skippers extended an invitation to the South…