Truly champagne conditions at Tropical Frampton ended the British Moth Open Circuit Season and concluded the Somerville Trophy on the 16th of October as 18 boats competed. Overnight campers were greeted by a stunning sunrise breaking through the Gloucestershire mist to give “wall-to-wall” sunshine all day. A light breeze filled in for the first race [...]
A bright and breezy Saturday morning greeted the four local boats and four visitors that turned out for the Desborough SC British Moth Open. The first race was sailed at 11.00 with a starboard course with a sausage in front of the clubhouse and started first time. Local boats of Richard Broughton and Olly Saunders [...]
After a week of nearly non-stop rain, the weather gods relented in time for the third running of the “Wheelbarrow” on the river Avon at Chippenham SCC. Warm sunshine and a decent Breeze welcomed the very reasonable entry. The Club’s short Startline meant that the fleet had to be seperated in to ‘flights’. Reigning National [...]
Witts wins Roger Witts set the pace straight from the start, and was not shy to win the practice race and go onto lead the event at the halfway stage on Thursday evening scoring 3 wins to last year’s champion Tim Davidson’s 1 win. With the pressure on Davidson did not need the broken boom [...]
Whitefriars Sailing Club on the Cotswold Water Parks proved a popular venue for the British Moths supported by 17 boats including 3 intrepid visitors travelling from Suffolk and 3 river sailors from Chippenham having their first experience of comparative open water. The light winds steadily improved through the event ending in a few planing reaches [...]
Competitors for the Sommerville Travellers Series – a little worse for wear from the previous day’s meeting at Cam SC – were confronted with another day of testing conditions. The wind direction allowed for two beats and a good mix of off wind legs that presented plenty of high speed planing. The first race cast [...]
Emerging from my Camper on Saturday morning to find the sun shining a light breeze and the smell of bacon cooking put a smile in my face. The home clubs plan to ply us with copious amounts of wine at the Friday night candle light B.B.Q had worked as my head was a little fuzzy. [...]
Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club welcomed ten entrants and families for its inaugural British Moth Open Meeting on Saturday 10 April 2010, which included 2 members from the home club. Competitors were greeted with warm sunshine and light winds on the small reservoir at Leamington Spa that is ideally suited to the British Moth. In Race [...]
Very un-tropical weather greeted the British Moths for the Severn Sailboats and English Braids sponsored ‘Suspense Trophy’ at Frampton. Blustery conditions and showers, which persisted all day, provided testing conditions in the British Moth’s first open of 2010. The first race, in the strongest breeze of the day, saw Jeremy Higson 861 fly off the [...]