West Kirby Sailing Club Christmas and New Year Series

 West Kirby Sailing Club had scheduled a six race series to be held on the marine lake, starting on Christmas Eve and finishing on New Year's Day.

Christmas day gave the sailors a brief respite, to revive themselves with good food and festive cheer, before the traditional Boxing Day Pursuit Race for all dinghy classes, on the lake once again. The weather Gods were clearly suffering a hangover and bout of very windy indigestion, as the 35 knot winds and cold conditions were enough to cause the racing to be cancelled. The next day was Bank Holiday Tuesday and two more races were scheduled. Once again, the racing had to be cancelled due to the howling winds, leaving one more race in the series for New Years Day.

The overall winner of the Fast Handicap Christmas Series was Jon Worthington in Laser 218031, with Andrew Bell in Laser 115777 in second and Solo 5907 sailed by Steve Ferrington in third.

The Slow Handicap was won by Sunbird 219, sailed by Keith Roberts, followed by Illusions 139 David Pilling in second and Jean-Louis Simmons 141 in third.

Overall Results:

Pos BoatName Class Sail No Owner PY R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Pts

Slow Handicap

1st Deelite Sunbird 219 Keith Roberts 1283 1 1 (DNC) DNC 8

2nd Doc's Pedalo Illusion 139 David Pilling 1435 (DNC) DNC 2 1 9

3rd Intrepid Illusion 141 Jean‑Louis Simons 1435 (DNC) DNC 1 3 10

4th Kirsan Illusion 77 Peter Williams 1435 (DNC) DNC 3 2 11

5th Underno Illusion 145 David Pontin 1435 (DNC) DNC 4 4 14

Fast Handicap

1st Laser 218031 Jon Worthington 1100 (DNC) (DNC) 1 2 2 8 13

2nd Laser 115777 Andrew Bell 1100 3 4 4 4 (DNC) (DNC) 15

3rd Still Quality Time Solo 5907 Steve Ferrington 1142 4 3 7 (RET) ‑10 7 21

4th Laser Radial 309 Steve Jardine 1147 (DNC) (DNC) 2 3 6 12 23

5th GP14 19 Trevor Jenkins 1133 (DNC) (DNC) 5 5 11 9 30

6th Laser 151359 Stuart Dawson 1100 RET (DNC) (DNC) DNC 3 5 37

7th Laser Radial 195201 Ioannis Koutsokeras 1147 2 1 (DNC) (DNC) DNC DNC 47

8th Laser 200643 James Douglas 1100 1 2 (DNC) (DNC) DNC DNC 47

9th Laser Radial 200643 James Douglas 1147 (DNC) (DNC) 3 1 DNC DNC 48

10th Zippy Zero D‑Zero 333 Liz Potter 1029 (DNC) (DNC) DNC DNC 1