RYA Sailability Scotland Handicap Regatta 2006
Bank Holiday Weekend, May 2006: St Mary's Loch Sailing Club opened its doors this weekend to visitors from other clubs, who were invited to compete in a Handicap Regatta in aid of Sailability Scotland. The idea, brainchild of Matt and Liz Hope, was that all club members invite their sailing friends to St Mary's for a fun weekend of sailing and relaxing. The weather was bright and sunny but, as usual, the wind could not decide from which direction to come and caused a few headaches for the race officer. However, on this occasion, there was also rather a lot of wind compounded by even more ferocious gusts and so the sailing was certainly challenging for all classes of boat that took to the water each day. In fact the wind was so strong during Saturday night that several of the tents broke poles and guy lines causing their occupiers to be up rather earlier on Sunday morning than they would have liked. The evening entertainment was the usual St Mary's mix of fine food and good company with special prizes for the worst tie and the worst frock of the evening - won by Dennis Booth and Shona Redpath respectively. The handicap event was won by Ailsa Redpath who, rather oddly, also took the rubber duck prize for the sailor who spent the most time swimming along side their boat!!! Prizes were awarded by Fiona Donaldson who was on hand to represent Sailability Scotland at the event. Thanks must go to all who turned up and sailed, helped and generally made the event a success. Results
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