Nearly twenty boats entered the Notts County Sailing Club Flying Fifteen dinghy meeting over the weekend.

The flying fifteen is a keelboat and has to be launched by a vehicle, but they provide very close and exciting sailing.

A very high standard of visitors meant that club sailors could only manage second and third. There was a huge variety of conditions from sunshine and calm on Saturday to blustery showers with strong winds on Sunday.

There were five fun packed races on 29th & 30th September and five different race winners lead to the closest ever finish.

Saturday evening saw the three leaders all on 4 points and the competition was hot right to the last legs of the final race.

Chief race officer Stuart Poole called a huddle of his team, the contenders, and the rule book to sort out the tie break.

Eventually Brett & Ben Dingwall were declared victorious ahead of Roger & Clare Wood from the home club Notts County, both boats having identical 1,2,2,3,4

Results. 1st Brett & Ben Dingwall (Grafham),
2nd Roger & Clare Wood (NCSC),
3rd David McKee (Dovestone) & Andy Falmer (NCSC),
4th Will Gardner & Sam Parker (NCSC),
5th Simon Kneller & Ollie Dingwall (Grafham),
6th Nigel Potter & John Allen (NCSC).
1st Classic David & Carole Duke (Grafham)
1st Silver Brian Glover (Draycote) & Tony Dunsworth (NCSC).