A busy weekend at Hollingworth Lake Sailing Club
by Graham Knox 21 May 03:38 NZST
11-12 May 2024
The Sailing Club at Hollingworth Lake had a very busy weekend on Saturday and Sunday, 11th and 12th May.
On Saturday, the Club hosted a North West Youth and Junior Travellers Event for the RYA. 40 young sailors were out racing from all over the North West. The sunny conditions and easterly wind made for a buzz of activity. Toppers were the most numerous boats and had very tight racing, with lots of position changes throughout the races.
The host Club had some great results, with Jasper Bramwell, U19 winner overall, and Jessica Marsh, overall 3rd place, and leading U14 winner. In 10th place overall came Millie Hayfield and Lauren Marsh, in a RS200, leading double handed boat.
On Sunday, the Club hosted an Open event for Lasers/ILCAs. 18 sailors competed in this event where the younger sailors showed the older ones how skilled they were in an easterly wind that grew stronger as the day wore on. Some younger sailors, fresh from Topper success, using Radial sails helped these lighter weight sailors to compete.
This showed in the results with Lewis Bacon, from Leigh & Lowton SC, using a Radial sail winning overall, followed by Henry Redmond from Covenham as runner up with the standard sail. Third place overall was local Jasper Bramwell, also using a Radial sail and 4th overall was another local Richard Marsh again using a standard sail.