Colwyn Bay Mayors Regatta 22nd July 2012

It was an early start, I was up at 6.00am, I don't even do that when working.  Keith and I got to the lake at around 8.15am to find we were the first SHMBC members there, followed shortly after by Paul Devlin, John Bradford and Dave Coatup. Our Club's Chairman and Hon Sec sauntered in an hour or so later :-).
In the end we had a great turnout by the Club members who put on a good display filling 5 tables under 2 gazebos.  (photos can be seen on the clubs website gallery).

The Colwyn Bay Club put on a fantastic day with a long period of free sailing in the morning and everyone took that opportunity and boy was it hectic! at times the lake absolutely full of many different types of boats.  They also ran organised groups on the water, the likes of yachts and steam launches (although it was a bit windy for these).  Steamboat Phil gave us a display of  his straight running boats.

The Club 500s were run too, first off the Colwyn Bay members had their own race as part of their championship and then after that it was open to everyone and we gave a good account of ourselves, Keith got bored I think and parked up on one of the buoys.. cracking parking at speed it was too!!

Later in the afternoon the judging was made for the Mayor's Cup and at the end of it our own club member Alan Luckett came away with the trophy for his lovely 'Lady Mary', Congratulations Alan.

The weather held out really well, the sun shone from morning till afternoon, unfortunately it was a little windy which proved a challenge for the gazebos, and several were seen to be upturned, luckily ours stayed grounded.

One of the oddest sights had to be Paul Devlin taking his pet boxes for a walk...

Please checkout the gallery on the clubs website for photos from the day and I mustn't forget to congratulate club member Rob Physick who was unable to come to the Mayor's Regatta as he was competing at Bridlington in the British Championships for Model Power Boats, coming away with a runners up place in the Mini Mono class and Mono 2 class, this also gave him qualification to the 2013 World Championships.

Rich.