Lough Foyle Yacht Club

Racing in Culmore bay tonight, starboard course start at the bouy near the slipway, power station, harts, a mark near mckenna’s. twice round. F2 – 3

Great to see the Hockley team out, with James H Jnr and James H Snr racing very well. Bill J was out with Keith L.
The race started well enough but swirling tides and a wind hole at the power station bunched everyone up. Eventually Dermot M, Hockley’s and George G got away with Dermot M and J Hockley creating a good lead. Joy W and David T were sailing very well.

Good to see Richard G out and about in a Pico, sailing well.

Best wishes to Ken L who is recovering from an Appendixoperation. Hope to see him out and about soon.

It was always going to be a battle against falling wind F1 – 2 and dropping. A one lap race was held in Culmore Bay. The first two boats made it round Harts in good time then the wind dropped at Harts leaving Bill J/James J and George G struggling.

Kevin L/ James L  1st

Anton H 2nd

Bill J/James J 3rd

George G 4rt

Culmore regatta on this weekend, all welcome. Punt racing, Open PY dinghy racing, rowing, tae, coffee and food, oul chat and good crack. The hotly contested Junior helm race is on this thursday night at 7.
The Lough Foyle Punts race tonight, friday at 7 and saturday at 11 in the Culmore Regatta. Dont miss the opportunity to see these wonderful traditional boats being raced to the limit.
The dinghy races (Open PY, everyone welcome) will start after the Punts on saturday. Why not come down for the whole day and enjoy the crack.
See pictures from last year year http://www.foylearts.com/lfyc/?p=427

Start at mark near slipway up to mark in Bay, Harts, Powerstation, Conniborrow. Faughan and through the line X2. Wind F3 & dropping, no rain but quite chilly. Flying start by the Kevin L/James L but later hampered by some spinnaker problems. Good duel between Ken L & Keith L, Dermot out in front, Gareth with new crew today.

LFYC Handicap notes: Gareth G/John McG have been awarded a handicap of 1185

Just two boats raced today. Anthony G/Todd S in their Scorpion, Kevin T in his Laser. A three lap race was held in Culmore Bay with the windward mark at Harts. Wind was intially very strong but blew down nicely for the laser. Kevin T crossed the line first by 18seconds but lost out when the LFYC handicaps were applied.

Port course up to Faughan, Conneyburrow, Clarkes Mark x2. Bit more wind tonight, F2+ E, but very damp on our arrival at Club, after some discussion enough enthusiasm was built up to launch, and Kevin/Liam and George D (rescue boat) kindly ran the race. Bill J and Ken D had good race together, and only the timely advice of George gave Bill J’s GP boat the edge at the end.

LFYC handicap notes: Ken D/Beth H handicap has been revised to 1160

Racing today was cancelled due to high winds.

Culmore Bay course, ”beat” up to Mckennas, Harts, Power Station and through Line for lap 2 which never happened as wind fell off from f1 to variable nil, it did revive but after Bill J/James J retired.
LFYC Handicap notes: James L/Owen McC handicap has been revised from 1185 to 1180

The Moville Regatta Dinghy race was on saturday 30/07/11. The first gun was to be at 11.00ambut racing was delayed for about two hours because of no wind. Eventually the wind picked up (F4 at times) and two great races were held. These results are the results with the LFYC skippers handicap applied and will be counted as part of the LFYC Series E races.  The open PY results are held by Moville Boat Club and reported elsewhere. The first race was anticlockwise and the second race was clockwise around the usual movile triangle with start and finish lines in front of the pier. The swell made the run in the second race very interesting. The L and the G boats were seen having a great duel gybing spinnakers as they chased eachother toward the line. Congratulations to John and Donal McG who came first in both races despite the determined attention of Dermot M and Ken and David L.

LFYC Handicap notes: John and Donal McG have been awarded a GP14 handicap of 1127. Shay Kelly has been awarded a handicap of 1140 in his Laser.

Start at the perch, muff, fahan, conniborrow, powerstation X2. F3 N. Anto and Jack H finally got the spinnaker flying well and were seen running up the river in fine form. Congratulations to Bill J and James J who are going well in their new GP. Nice to see A Thompson out for a sail.