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Results
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| Wirral Regatta 2003 |
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This year’s Wirral Regatta Series was blessed with one of the best summers we have had for some time. The series is organised by the clubs on the Wirral and the events are run on the river Mersey and the river Dee. The events are open to a wide variety of classes of yachts from dinghy’s and Mersey Falcons to Stars, Hilbres and other classics up to larger and more modern types like the Sigma 33.. Entry’s in every class except dinghies were up this year and around 250 + yachts took part. Over all this equated to over 2000 people starting in the various events. However for our club the dinghies are of the main interest. We could not have wished for better weather and we had glorious sunshine for nearly every event. The wind however varied from a “windless drift “ for the Wallasey clubs event to a calm first lap then a 180 degree shift and a 4 to 5 blow that resulted in a knock down for one of the larger yachts but a fantastic wild bobsleigh ride type reach for the dinghies, very exciting. At the West Kirby event we had glorious sunshine but a light breeze and then ended with a perfect day at the Dee clubs event, plenty of breeze a nice chop on the water and once again sun, sun, sun. After all this excitement I am pleased to report that our members finished the series with some very creditable results. John Ainsworth finished second overall with Ken Moran a few hundred yards astern in third place and Brian Taylor and Cara Balshaw in sixth place and with only one event entered Keith Ainsworth and Gina Kelly finished in twenty third position. These are excellent results for our club especially as we are sailing on unfamiliar waters and in a range of conditions very different from our own. All our members who took part thoroughly enjoyed every event and we hope that we can encourage more of our members to join us next year. All these events are listed on our racing schedule so come on Weaver members, make the effort and have a go, we know that you will enjoy yourselves.
Ken Moran W S C.
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