Lough Foyle Yacht Club

F2/3 W. A fine evening. Interesting course up the river to a mark in the channel near the top of the dockyard. Very tricky first lap with strong tide forcing a return course where we made multiple short tacks hugging the dock jetty to keep out of the tide.

Earlier in the day we welcomed Mary Farrell the development officer for the RYA (NI) who came to visit us on a fact finding mission.

LFYC is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a GP14 association of Ireland National event in 2011. This will be the first major sailing event in LFYC for some considerable time and it is a great development for the club and for sailing on Lough Foyle.

http://www.gp14ireland.com/

North wind, Long bumpy beat to Conniborrow, run to fahan, broadreach back to the start mark, twice, in F4 easing later.

A beautiful sunny day. Suncream and t shirts. Starting with no wind, then light winds, then a nice sailing breeze. A big oil tanker landed at the power station in the middle of race one.


Cold wet and windy. A great day sailing, some very fast reaching. Many thanks to Liam/Beth for timekeeping and Roy for rescuing. 2 MOB’s and a crash (more of a bump, not  too serious) and 2 capsizes.

Very light winds to start of with, with a very tricky windward mark near the shore in the lee of trees. Wind picked up. Great to see Ken D out again, and still very crafty.

Light conditions, Photo by Lauren Harrigan

F3 North, Cold, Bright. Wind backed North West and dropped for second lap. Bill J made a good course on the first beat and stole the lead – temporarily

Northerly F3/4 choppy sea. A very bright day. Close racing at front of fleet.

Starboard triangle: start, conniburrow, fahan. Light winds for first race, picked up for second race. First race shortened to one lap took longer than second race which was two laps.