Lough Foyle Yacht Club

A strong turnout this year by LFYC at the annual skoot down the road to Moville.

Great pictures from Sean McCafferty can be found here. Here are a few highlights and comments

Anton H and Aoife H had a great race with Kevin L and Caoimhe L

The Coleraine crew were also there in Force including this lady in her Laser

Dermot M and Cecil T arrived and reformed the team.

Gallaghers Punt under way and full speed

In the father and daughter battle between Lynchs and Huttons. race honours were even with a win each.

A group gathered to discuss this mystery green stuff. I would say it is seaweed myself.

We all showed up but it was blowing a gale and racing was cancelled without any protest

Many thanks to Anthony G who was OD. Many of the boats were away at the GP14 Hot Toddy event in Mullingar. Great pictures here from Sean McC. Welcome back to Jack H after a long absence!

A terrible drifter of a race. Racing in Culmore bay. starting of the slipway, then to a mark near the hall, then up to harts then downwind? to powerstation and back through the gate.

It was easy to get stuck at either the mark by the hall or up at Harts.
Well done to those three boats who managed to finish. Great skill and patience.

Many thanks to Kevin L for OD duties

Well done to Peter and James who clearly are sailing very well.

Jesus, I cant remember a thing about this race, which is bad, considering I was in it and it was only last month. dont know if it was windy, dont know which way we went, nada!

A low turnout for the Foyle Festival Cup this year did not stop James L from sailing very well.

Kevin L and Joy W raced an excellent first race to upset the normal “order” of things

Racing in Culmore bay. Windy enough! Gareth and Richard and Keith and Alan had a close race. Eventually Keith and Alan got by on the downwind leg.

Notice of Race here http://www.foylearts.com/lfyc/?p=2217

Sean McCaffferty’s Great pictures of the event are here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanphotos2013/sets/72157635349563646/

Here are a few of selected shots and comments..

The pink ladies did a great job as usual – we are very grateful. It was a great weekend.

There was a good punt fleet

A sea otter came ashore and took up temporary residence under a punt

Lynch brother and sister were a formidable sailing team.

We are grateful to the Goughs who stood by on rescue duty

How did the Doherty’s manage to sail through this. They didnt actually go over!

Wind continued to build as the day went on, eventually it was too windy for the Phantom.