The following report on last Saturday's MRYC League Regatta was submitted by Des Fairbank:

"MRYC held a 36" Shipmate League event on Saturday and attracted 12 enthusiastic skippers. Unfortunately Neil Young who is on top of the handicap league was trying out a different radio and ended up not being able to sail. The wind was almost ideal and blowing straight down the canal when it was stable and when it was not it came from all sides.

Caroline Stevens was sailing her normal boat but it has now been fitted with the new fiberglass fin and rudder. Whilst she did not finish high up the boat definitely had more speed and the demand on these conversions has increased dramatically.

The results after nine races were as follows:

The net handicap is the amount by which each skipper has sailed better or worse than his handicap. Theoretically every one should have a net H/cap score of 0 each event. From the above Peter Stenner net h/cap score of 23.7 sailed considerably better than his handicap and this can be attributed to the fact that he spent a week working on Nikki Sprunt's boat and sailed it for the event. Does not say much for his own boat!!! The -14 net H/cap scores reflect skippers sailing worse than their handicap. Handicaps are recalculated after each event and are based on the best three scores in the last four regattas."