Risdon Brook Radio Yacht Club

Risdon Brook Radio Yacht Club Radio sailing club located at Risdon Brook Recreation Park - Sail classes include, IOM, RM, A Class, Dragon Force/ RG65 DF95

Looks like our intrepid bunch of midweek sailors had a good day sailing yesterday ... thanks to Kyle for his report:A ve...
22/07/2020

Looks like our intrepid bunch of midweek sailors had a good day sailing yesterday ... thanks to Kyle for his report:

A very good idea to go sailing today - mild conditions with a mid A rig breeze from the north with some westerly shifts that built up to B rig after lunch.

Everyone hanging onto their A rigs making for some fast sailing.

Again, we started with a running start to the southern distance mark with a long beat back to the gate marks back to the distance mark, and then again a long beat to the finish.

A good turn up of 12 boats including 4 fast woodies. Buzzy sailing his new Corby 5 was showing excellent speed particularly upwind. Good to see Peter Turner come along as he slowly gets to grips with radio sailing . Justin Rogers had a tune up prior to the after lunch races & was also going very well.

A good day

A hardy bunch of sailors turned up on a cold morning for midweek sailing. Here is the report: Only seven dedicated skipp...
16/07/2020

A hardy bunch of sailors turned up on a cold morning for midweek sailing. Here is the report:

Only seven dedicated skippers fronted on a rather bleak morning but we did have a fairly steady northerly to give us some very enjoyable A rig handicap racing from the southern point.

Course was from the start to the middle windward mark with a long run to the southern distance mark and then another long beat to the finish.

Excellent racing with Jammy and Stu as the back markers, with the 3 woodies plus Kimbo Potter making up the rest of the fleet.

Peter Turner came along with his newly acquired V5 ( I think) but a flat battery curtailed his morning. Thanks to those who made the effort to come along .

This weekend, we have another double header, with the resumption of the DF95 Tasmanian Championship. Button press as per the NoR at 1030. Then on Sunday, we have RM Scratch, starting at 11am.

A challenge. Beautiful looking yacht
14/07/2020

A challenge. Beautiful looking yacht

Report from Kyle Stewart of day one of the Tasmanian DF95 Championships ... good day of racing!After predictions of less...
12/07/2020

Report from Kyle Stewart of day one of the Tasmanian DF95 Championships ... good day of racing!

After predictions of less than 10km/hr winds, we were greeted with approx double that in a WNW direction, so with the long fetch of water as well, the waves were up a bit as well, which provided quite a challenge for the sailors. Many hadn't sailed their DF's in a while and subsequently had issue with how the waves and wind can move the yachts around, which resulted in quite a lot of entanglements int he first few races. This abated after about four races, but the wind did not. Increasing to a healthy B rig by lunch time, but the Katabatic soothed somewhat after lunch to a light to medium A rig breeze.

Many sailors got podium positions thoughout the day, with 18 races being completed.

Looking through the preliminary day 1 results, it looks like Lisa Blackwood made the best of the conditions. Stu Dawes holds second position, 12 points adrift of Lisa, with Mike Hickman in third, 3 points further astern of Stu.

The interest does not stop there, with many close contests amongst the fleet. Rod, Ray and Wayne fighting close for 4-6 respectively, Chris, Phil, John, Justin and Colin all within earshot for positions 7-11, and not discounting Geoff or David, who will quickly rush back to the pack with some dnf's ready to discard shortly.

By the sounds of it at the end of the day, everyone really enjoyed themselves, and all yachts are in prime condition to continue tomorrow, with similar forecast predicted.

Big thanks, as always to our PRO's on the day. A difficult job at times, and Les and Rod carried out the task admirably.

Looking forward to seeing what happens throughout tomorrows sailing.

Report from Andrew, our midweek racing coordinator: "when I went for a walk at seven this morning it was one degree and ...
09/07/2020

Report from Andrew, our midweek racing coordinator: "when I went for a walk at seven this morning it was one degree and quite OK, but by the time I got to Montrose a B rig northerly had set in and it was beyond freezing, so the seven skippers who came decided to delay sailing until 11.00 am. It was still cold, but do-able. As the morning progressed and the handicap series got under way the temperature came up and the icy breeze started to abate. After lunch everyone was on A rigs and some great handicap racing followed using a downwind start to a distant buoy followed by a log beat to windward - twice around.

Wayne B had his new Woody sailing and going well and Stuart Dawes brought along his almost complete Goth IOM. He also acted as PRO - many thanks.

I must say that since we have been back sailing from lockdown the sailing at Montrose has been just superb. As John Cole-Cook says, a world class venue!

Rod J has suggested that, because of the very cold mornings we are having we should start Wednesdays at 11.00 am during the winter - when there is a bit more warmth in the air. Everyone though that was an outstandingly good idea, so going forward we will start at 11.00, and straight into the handicap sailing"

Nice to see some signs of normal returning to the weekend routine ... RBRYC's Marblehead skippers blew off the cobwebs a...
28/06/2020

Nice to see some signs of normal returning to the weekend routine ... RBRYC's Marblehead skippers blew off the cobwebs and had an enjoyable Sunday sailing. Thanks to Kyle for the report:

A rather chilly day today, but nice fresh winds welcomed the 6 sailors for the first RM scratch day in quite a long time. Honours were shared mostly between Ray Joyce, with his Grunge and John Cole-Cook's borrowed Indie, with John Hall and his Fuzzy Logic taking out the last race (you're only as good as your last race, John?). That said, Andrew Wardrop and his Indie was also very consistent as well, which ended up having the BG designed yachts finishing in the first three places on the day.

John Cole-Cook took out the day in the end, on 11 points, with Ray Joyce second, on 14 points, with Andrew Wardrop in third, on 26 points.

Big thanks to Les Hanson, who not only PRO'd the day today, but also lent out his Vibe so Stu could have a sail as well.

This Wednesday is the DF95 Mid Week Handicap from 10am, and on Sunday 5 July we have the IOM Mid Winter Challenge. Please get your entry in if you intend on sailing on the day. All racing is at Montrose Bay at the moment.

Things are starting to return to normal at RBRYC ... well normal for these strange times anyway. Here is a report from S...
22/06/2020

Things are starting to return to normal at RBRYC ... well normal for these strange times anyway. Here is a report from Secretary Kyle Stewart on winter sailing last Sunday:

"Nine hardy skippers turned up today. Personally, I reluctantly packed my IOM into the car, fully believing it would not get wet today. However, on arrival at MBYC, there was a nice, light NW breeze, which gave everyone the motivation to get set up and have a sail. Although it was rather cold, the sailing was very competitive and enjoyable. Les set up some really good courses for us, and continued to make the required changes to both the start lines and actual course as needed. W**d was of very little influence today, and some fantastic close and clean racing ensued.

As usual, the cream rose to the top, and Lisa came out winner on the day, with a very consistent score of 9 for the day. Rod J, Ray and Mike battled each other most of the day, with Rod J prevailing in second, from Ray and then Mike.

A big thanks to Les, who came along to PRO for the day, making it a very pleasant and enjoyable day for everyone."

Here is an interesting post on constructing a wooden IOM. Are you interested in doing the same? Plenty of Risdon Brook R...
20/06/2020

Here is an interesting post on constructing a wooden IOM. Are you interested in doing the same? Plenty of Risdon Brook Radio Yacht Club members have now completed their own projects and are more than willing to provide assistance and advice to interested builders! Visit the RBRYC internet page for more details on joining the club and participating in radio yachting! http://www.randpsystems.co.uk/IOM/BuildingAWoodenShell.htm

Interested in building your own wooden IOM? Several RBRYC members have done so, and there is plenty of information on ou...
02/03/2020

Interested in building your own wooden IOM? Several RBRYC members have done so, and there is plenty of information on our website about woodies (search RBRYC). Here is an article ...

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