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It is good to see the results of the first day at the Nationals are on this website.

https://dart15.co.uk/events/EMS/event.php?id=250

Well done, Liam for leading the charge.

Looks like Liam has wrapped it up on day 2....

That was quite an event. Three days of quite strong breeze with some very close racing all the way through. Day 1 was type 2 fun but day 2 was just champagne sailing. I was very lucky to be able to cruise round on the third day and just enjoy the racing.

Thank you to everybody including Pauline and George with the camera and Jenny for running everything else.

Lots of pictures uploaded here: https://dart15.co.uk/picture-gallery-17 ... -day-1.php

According to Yachts and Yachting we should be the biggest Nationals so far this year if you exclude boats that you can't sit on.

Congratulations Liam on an impressive display of sailing!!

Conditions were simply superb and quite honestly if I didn't have to pack the boats up could have thrashed about the bay all afternoon yesterday.

Cracking event - well done Jenny & WPNSA.

Liam wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:35 am That was quite an event. Three days of quite strong breeze with some very close racing all the way through. Day 1 was type 2 fun but day 2 was just champagne sailing. I was very lucky to be able to cruise round on the third day and just enjoy the racing.

Thank you to everybody including Pauline and George with the camera and Jenny for running everything else.

Lots of pictures uploaded here: https://dart15.co.uk/picture-gallery-17 ... -day-1.php

Well done, Liam. I think that must have been the most dominant Nationals win since George (Carter) emigrated.

Bob Carter wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 10:43 am Well done, Liam. I think that must have been the most dominant Nationals win since George (Carter) emigrated.

Thank you, Bob.

The results don't tell the full picture. The racing was really close every day. If it was all up-wind sailing I would have been 45th.

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Well done, Liam. I think that must have been the most dominant Nationals win since George (Carter) emigrated.
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I said the same thing - it hasn't been that wrapped up during an event since GC. I also regaled the story of the Whitsable Nationals (2004?) where George forgot to bring the previous year's trophies he'd won - all of them. He then went on to win them all again so no drama about not having brought them!

Yes, sounds familiar. More embarrassingly I think that was the Nationals where I tried to mount one of the large buoys and got it stuck between the 2 hulls and I was stuck for some time....

Jacob & I got into the side of a trawler too.. My fault as he had his black signal cone up which I didn't know about at the time...

Liam wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:35 am Lots of pictures uploaded here: https://dart15.co.uk/picture-gallery-17 ... -day-1.php

What a fantastic array of pictures. Nice job to the photographers.

Jenny has written a report. Because she hasn't had much to do recently.

Nice report Jenny & on behalf of all of us on the water, a big Thank You!