We arrived in minus three degrees at Datchet this morning, very light ghostly breeze, and six boats were promptly rigged!! Blimey.....
Biggest thrill was a brand new Datchet member, Andy Murphy, with his brand spanking new, out-of-the-box, Flying Fifteen. Lovely it is - 3965 I think. 3965 will form our sixth new team at Datchet this year!!
It wasn't half nippy though. Roger's furler shattered in the frost and then there were five. In the end, it was two family teams were the brave souls who cracked the ice and ventured out for a spot of match racing - Mark and Matt Firth and Dominic and David Hume. The rest headed for the Bar..... and the new caterers' coffee machine.
Actually Dom and non-Dom really did crack the ice - very, very slippery it was there this morning but boat and team survived to sail the day - with around a dozen fifteeners ashore watching. To be honest, I couldn't see that much of the racing through the steam pouring off my hot cappucino.... The results aren't posted on the website yet, but the PRO reported to Datchet Man that Team Firth had won the day.... Well through his shivering lips it was actually quite difficult to tell what he was saying, but I think that was the gist of it. He was very grateful for the opportunity to run the races this morning, as were the RIB drivers who were OK once they had de-iced their eyebrows. We were very grateful to them obviously. Mark and Matt, who between them weigh the same as two bags of sugar, found the conditions outstanding.
Team Hume and Team Firth arrived ashore in time for the quarterly prizegiving, which was the last item on the Fleet AGM - held in a very snug Boardroom with gallons of coffee and misted up windows. It was a pretty active fleet meeting and you can read or download the minutes by clicking the Fleet website picture to the right of the "Datchet Man" blogpage, and then clicking "Downloads" from the list above the photo.
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