The glorious weather at the end of August and beginning of September, led to many opportunities for some great boating in the bay, both locally and afar - we look forward to hearing about the many cruises that took place, and there will be accounts of some of these in our end of season yearbook - Please email commodore@pwllhelisailingclub.co.uk for articles to be included in our next edition.
CHIPAC continues to flourish, and after losing a couple of evenings to strong wind, it was great seeing the youngsters out on the water these last two Friday’s. it’s important we recognise the volunteers, so many thanks to Instructors Mike Chloe and James, and of course to Pete D and Pete W and Gwenno for their safety and supervision work, to Lyndsay Graeme and Jane, and of course all the parents. This is a section of the club that represents the future of sailing here in the bay, and we hope to assist CHIPAC with an entry into the GP14 World Championships “regatta fleet” here in Pwllheli, in August 2024.
The joint ISORA and PSC “night race” took place towards the end of August, and as is becoming tradition, the wearing of sunglasses was mandatory! A very fast race to Ynys Gwylan Bach a Fawr off Aberdaron and back which was enjoyed by 8 boats, and a fantastic party in Plas Heli afterwards, with curry and live music. Congratulations to our race, series, and class winners, with Mojito crowned ISORA and PSC coastal champions and again left to fill the midland bowl with rum punch! This was a supreme effort by Mojito, skippered by Pete and Vicky recently back from the West Highland Yachting Week and Abersoch Keel Boat week - even the boat said it wanted a rest!
Arwen Fflur represented PSC in the 420 national at the end of august - see the report on the website here
September saw the start of the “Medi” series, with Finally taking the lead ahead of next week’s final weekend before the start of the ever-popular Autumn series for the Challenge Cup. For crewing opportunities in this series, contact racing@pwllhelisailingclub.co.uk
Last Saturday saw the completion of the ISORA offshore series, with a slow race to Dun Laoghaire, and although Mojito was just pipped to the post into second place for the series buy a couple of points, it was great seeing CHPSC boats dominating the final results, with Jackknife winning the last race, and finishing the series in 3rd place, and class 0 in 2nd, Mojito finished the series in 2nd place overall and as class 1 winners, Jac Y Do finished in 7th place overall and class 2 winners, with Jezebel 4th overall, Gelert 6th and Zig Zag 12th overall (and winners of class 2 in the coastal series).
