The battle is heating up in the 2023 Cookham Reach Sailing Club August Frolic and it looked promising for the sailors on August 13th with winds around 10-15mph gusting over 20mph. Race officers Richard Cartwright, Andrew Granger and Christine Roy set a course of four buoys. From the start line at the OD box, the […]
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Close racing for the start of the August Frolic
The Cookham Reach Sailing Club August Frolic series started on Sunday 6th August with close racing through the field. The sailing conditions were good with north easterly winds of around 10mph, although the lower course was hampered by periods of lighter winds due to wind shadows. Race officers, Andrew Boxer, Clive Evison and Clive Church […]
Andrew Yuille and Gary Adshead win Summer Series
Andrew Yuille has won the Lightning class and Gary Adshead has won the Handicap class of the 2023 Cookham Reach Sailing Summer Series. A final day’s racing on Sunday July 30th saw Andrew take a further four wins to extend his lead in the series to five points and take the series title. Duncan Watts […]
Mary Webb wins Ladies Trophy
It was an exciting and close battle between the five sailors competing for the 2023 Ladies Trophy on Sunday July 9th. Race officers, Andrew Boxer, Cara Ivers, James Long and Clive Church set a course to cope with the changing winds encountered during the afternoon. The morning’s racing had seen winds shifting between the southeast […]
Light winds for July 9th sailors
Five Lightning sailors and one OK sailor competed in the two Summer Series races on Sunday July 9th in light winds of a few knots. The race officers, Andrew Boxer, Cara Ivers, Clive Church and James Long set a course of an A buoy set about 200 metres above the bend and taken to port, […]
Andrew Yuille takes lead in Summer Series
Andrew Yuille (LN 446) completed a series of five successive race wins to take the lead in the Lightning 368 class of the 2023 Summer Series at Cookham Reach Sailing Club. However, the battle for the lead in the series is still close with Duncan Watts (LN 431) only two points behind and Peter Withrington […]
Penny Yarwood wins CRSC Lightning 368 Open
Penny Yarwood from Up River Yacht Club has won the Cookham Reach Sailing Club Lightning 368 Open after winning two races and a third and finishing with five points. The competition was extremely close with the top three sailors separated by one point after Andrew Yuille of Cookham Reach Sailing Club finished on six points […]
Duncan Watts takes lead in Summer Series
After the OK Open the previous day there was a smaller than usual turnout for the start of the Summer Series. Five Lightning 368 sailors started the series in light winds from the north-east with shifts both to north and to east. Race officers Clive Church and Tricia Evison set a course downstream of the […]
Jeremy Deacon wins OK Open
A small turnout of two visiting sailors joined five CRSC OK sailors for the annual OK Open at Cookham Reach Sailing Club on June 3rd 2023. Race officers, Dave Phillips, Marcus Robb and Clive Church set an upstream course due to the northeasterly winds causing wind shadow on the river in front of the club […]
Jerome Dreux wins Wallace Trophy
Jerome Dreux (OK 2007) has won the 2023 Wallace Trophy after winning two races in challenging conditions. The light winds from the northeast gusting round to both easterlies and northerlies caught many sailors out and caused some difficultly with mooring at the club jetty. Seven boats raced across the four races on Sunday May 28th […]