We’ve been asked by John Tushingham to let you all know that there is a DF95 tune up event being held at the Keighley Club on Sunday 30th October, an ideal opportunity for those based in the North to get your eye in a week before the DF95 Nationals at Lincoln. Racing starts at 10am and will continue until it gets dark or your fingers go numb. Bring your own lunch. Give John a call on 01943 816808 if you fancy some racing.

DF95 skippers at Keighley earlier in 2016

We’ve had some info arrive with us about the winter racing at Coalhouse Fort, head over to the events page to check out the detail. Plan your DF65 and DF95 racing through until late March 2017!

DF65’s at Coalhouse Fort – Photo John Newton

With the official deadline passed for putting your entry in for the event we have made it to 31 skippers. not too shabby. If you really want to enter head over to the Lincoln MYC website and send Mick a really nice email and he might let you put a late entry in. Mick likes shiny things with the number 46 on them so perhaps a bribe of some Valentino Rossi merchandise might help your cause, or perhaps a bottle for the raffle…

There is more info on the events page and the full details can be found on the Lincoln MYC website.

A shot from Fleetwood a few weeks ago.

It seems that the latest event at Fleetwood was a success with 22 boats competing on Saturday and 14 on Sunday, more details and a report to follow soon..ish!

In the meantime here’s a photo from yesterdays DF95 event.

We have had some more information from the guys at Lincoln MYC who have now added some details to their website about the upcoming DF95 UK Nationals.

The venue is pretty cool with plenty of parking and the lake is really good and open with courses being able to be set from any wind direction. The locals are very friendly too!

Details of the event are available here

Last orders, Fleetwood, this weekend. Saturday DF65, Sunday DF95. Entry on the day for less than the cost of a pint, bring your own bar snax. That is all!

What do you do when you’ve got a free Sunday, a group of eager DF95 owners and a great piece of water to sail at? You get on the phone and organise a ‘pop-up’ open. Calls were made, boats prepared, rigs built and fourteen DF95s arrived at Keighley with the promise of a good A rig breeze for an informal days racing. Bring your own lunch, and in the form of Judith Baldwin, bring your own scorer! Having done a sterling job all day and aided by the host club’s Leo Marygold, went home with a nice bottle of white to relax into.

No need to rush about, some very smart new boats (nice stickers Gary) needing a bit of tweaking during the morning, a leisurely tea break and seven races completed before lunch. Much chat, some of it on the subject of drugs in sport, but nothing stronger than Aspirin for this fleet of finely honed athletes! Back on to the water in a slowly building breeze, top end of A rig by the middle of the afternoon, long beats, fast offwind legs, starts getting turned round faster now (sorry Tommy) to get up to sixteen races. Apart from a brief shower in the morning we managed to dodge a couple of nasty looking clouds and even came away a bit sun and wind blushed.

Results available in PDF format here – DF95 Results Keighley

To quote a line from the film Field of Dreams, “build it and they will come” – seems to work for us as well – we should do more of it, and we will, at Fleetwood for a joint DF65 & 95 weekend on September 17/18. Don’t miss it.

We’ve been contacted by the guys up at Fleetwood MYPBC who, not content with holding this years DF65 Nationals, are putting on a weekend of DF racing over the weekend of the 17th & 18th September.

The Saturday is for DF65’s and is part of the ND Summer Series, the Sunday is just for the hell of it and is for DF95’s.

There is a debrief at The Mount on Saturday evening which I’m sure will be very thorough as only Fleetwood debriefs seem to be!  The New Boston Lodge is less than a short stumble away from the pub so no excuses!

For more details clicky the poster.

Evening All, in the last few weeks we have been beavering away and getting ourselves a little more organised with a little more help.

The main change is the registrar who is now Wayne Stobbs from Portsmouth MYC. Wayne takes over from Tim Long and this change should free up Tim to do a little more website work. It should also speed up the registration process as Wayne seems to be well organised and he will be looking after the DF65, RG65 and DF95 registrations for the UK.

Wayne enjoys fishing in his spare time, it seems he’s quite good!

We are also recruiting some area race co-ordinators who can help us to promote the classes in the North, Midlands and South, we’ll keep you posted as things happen.

There will be another change coming in the next week or two which will be our web address which will become http://www.dfracinguk.com. This domain is working currently alongside the current domain and will continue to do so for some time until I remember to switch it off!

Next event that we know of is Fleetwood DF65 on the 17th September.