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 Lymington Mid Week Rally Report 16th-17th April
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| Lymington Mid Week Rally Report 16th-17th April |
| The first mid week rally of the 2008 season was attended by eleven club boats. |
The wind in the morning had been a light westerly but by the time most of the boats left Hamble it had gone round to the South West and had freshened. It was a good sail in sunshine with a strong ebb tide and the entrance to the Lymington suddenly appeared on the bow marked by the exit of the ferry.
We motored up the river squeezing between the moored yachts, the ferry and the racing dinghies. I just wonder what is going to happen if they allow the larger ferries to plough between Lymington and Yarmouth. |
Several club boats had already arrived when we moored up at the quay and eventually everyone turned up. Blue Elixir II had to moor down the river by the Lymington Town Sailing Club as there was no room on the quay.
The Handleys kindly held the customary BYOB on High Flyer, the overflow standing on the pontoon enjoying the evening sunshine. A table had been booked at the Royal Lymington Yacht Club at their St George's Day supper so we hot footed down to meet up with the Blue Elixir crew and a dozen of us sat down and enjoyed some English fare. |
The next morning we woke to the pitter patter of rain on the deck so we did not feel too guilty having a few more minutes in our bunks. The rain then cleared and by lunch time everyone had left to catch the tide back to Hamble.
It was a cracking sail with a few gusts of wind from the South West reaching 30 knots. We surfed back in about 1 ½ hours and were lucky to get back to the mooring just as a thunder storm started. We dashed ashore between showers having had a successful mid week rally. |
| The boats attending were Blue Elixir II (Dick Long & Jan crewed by Bill & Denise Cartilidge), Cream Cracker (Peter & Sarah Page), Dusk (David Marsden), High Flyer (David & Audrey Handley), Marynia (Iain & Mary Colquhoun), Monette (Peter & Sandy Praine), Rin Jinn (Maggie Widdop crewed by Judi Hussey), Sea Rose (Peter & Eileen Turner crewed by John & Sarah Hetherington), Still Blue (Alan Clark crewed by Alan Davies), Sybaris (John Thornback & Shirley) Tasmara (Walter Vaizey). |
| Maggie Widdop |
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