Lough Foyle Yacht Club

Jesus, I cant remember a thing about this race, which is bad, considering I was in it and it was only last month. dont know if it was windy, dont know which way we went, nada!

A low turnout for the Foyle Festival Cup this year did not stop James L from sailing very well.

Kevin L and Joy W raced an excellent first race to upset the normal “order” of things

Racing in Culmore bay. Windy enough! Gareth and Richard and Keith and Alan had a close race. Eventually Keith and Alan got by on the downwind leg.

Notice of Race here http://www.foylearts.com/lfyc/?p=2217

Sean McCaffferty’s Great pictures of the event are here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanphotos2013/sets/72157635349563646/

Here are a few of selected shots and comments..

The pink ladies did a great job as usual – we are very grateful. It was a great weekend.

There was a good punt fleet

A sea otter came ashore and took up temporary residence under a punt

Lynch brother and sister were a formidable sailing team.

We are grateful to the Goughs who stood by on rescue duty

How did the Doherty’s manage to sail through this. They didnt actually go over!

Wind continued to build as the day went on, eventually it was too windy for the Phantom.

Beautiful evening for sailing, F3 Southerly.

Racing from the slipway and a mark off the end of the slipway to a mark near the power station then to muff, fahan, conniborrow, muff, fahan and back through the line all done in about 35 minutes.

Cecil T was sailing Alan T’s Phantom and has been awarded an LFYC PY of 1150 (same as Anton H and Conor G)

James P H was sailing a PICO with PY of 1300.

Many thanks to George C and Sean McC for acting as OD.

Tight racing between the two Louden boats as usual with Keith nipping it by 11 seconds tonight.

Ken D/Ciaran H and Ian D were unstoppable today. Ken D will no doubt be pleased especially after the hard justice served up on the 6th of June.

Thanks to Bill and James J and Liam H in rescue on a windy day.

Light winds today. It is in these kind of conditions that Ken and Davy L are even more difficult to beat making it extra difficult indeed.

If it were not for the lack of wind, if memory serves me correctly, it was a beautiful evening.

Ken L/David L and Dermot M/Cecil T in close racing today with less than a minute between them in tow fifty minute races.

Dermot M and Cecil T are back in a boat and back to winning ways. Congratulations to them.