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A lack of wind and strong river current meant that the Finals day of the Autumn Series on October 29th was cancelled. A couple of weeks of heavy rain leading up to the weekend had caused the River Thames to be on red river status between Marlow lock to Cookham lock for most of the […]

Andrew Yuille has won the Nat Phillips Pursuit Trophy held on Sunday October 15th. Six sailors competed for the trophy with Andrew (LN 446) winning the first race ahead of Gary Adshead (OK 1998), Clive Evison (P 1355) and Duncan Watts (LN 431). In the second race, Andrew again finished in the lead with Clive […]

Sunday October 8th’s Nat Phillips Pursuit Race Trophy was postponed due to a lack of wind on the race course. The weather was forecast for southwesterly winds of around 6-8 knots, but unfortunately there was no wind from the scheduled 11am start until lunchtime and the race officer, Tricia Evison, decided to abandon racing. The […]

Sunday October 2nd saw a return to the light wind that has plagued this year’s sailing and only allowed two morning races to take place before sailing was cancelled after lunch. Race officers Jerome Dreux and Clive Church set a simple course with a B buoy taken to port in both directions on the bend […]

The Veterans Cup on Sunday September 24th was sailed in strong winds around 15mph with gusts over 20mph. After the morning’s Autumn Series races, the race officers, James Long and Carole Dixon were joined by Tricia Evison in the race box for the afternoon’s races and the course was kept the same as the morning’s […]

Sunday September 24th was a challenging day for the sailors competing in the 2023 Cookham Reach Sailing Club Autumn Series as winds in the high teens caused capsizes and boat failures. Race officers, James Long, Mandy Taylor and Carole Dixon had to decide whether to setup a remote start for racing as southerlies shifting to […]

Easterly winds at Cookham Reach Sailing Club gave the competitors in the Autumn Series a rare chance to sail almost all the way to Cookham Bridge on Sunday September 18th. Race officers Tricia and Clive Evison set a course with a dogleg D and B buoy set in the middle of the course, with D […]

A small turnout of seven sailors endured extremely light winds at the start of the Cookham Reach Sailing Club Autumn Series on Sunday September 3rd. Race officers Clive Evison and Christine Roy set a simple course of a C buoy about twenty metres midstream above the OD box taken to starboard and a D buoy […]

The August Frolic was all to play for as the sailors entered the final day in the Series on Sunday August 27th. Unfortunately, the two leaders in the Series were unavailable to sail on the final day so it was up to the other contenders to try and overhaul their points score and win the […]