Frostbite Series Race 1 & 2

Published 17:16 on 21 Dec 2025

Saturday 20th Dec

Sailors were welcomed by a glorious winters day with a gentle F2 occasionally F3 from the SSE/S which would prove testing once racing was underway

Dell Quay welcomed several sailors including some juniors from Felpham and Langstone Sailing Club, thank you for coming and look forward to seeing you again on the 3rd Jan Its very much an open event, please come along and join us! (Details can be found at https://www.dellquaysc.co.uk/dinghies/open-meetings-frostbite-series )

The mixed handicap fleet of 19 boats set off on time at 1030 with a 2 lap (1 for juniors) course giving some testing beats with the fluky conditions with some good change of positions including the lead on the water.

With a great mixed fleet of 6 solos, 7 lasers (mixed sizes), Aeros, Comet, RS Tera SP, 2000 and RS400 it was lovely to see on such a gorgeous day. Roger Puttock in his Solo certainly kept his nose clean and was the solo to beat, the laser fleet was led on the water by Will Parrot in his new full rig (New to him) and as a first day out, did very well, although did admit later that he nearly went for a swing having got stuck under the boom (previous Firefly sailor!) but the RS400 was off in clean air which was important today and the results showed.

After a close race through tricky wind conditions the top 3 results were

Mark Harper/Lawrence Kies - RS400 DQSC
Roger Puttock Solo DQSC
Will Parrett - Laser (Full) DQSC

Juniors

Thoedore Valantin ILCA4 Felpham SC
Louise Cornell ILCA6 Felpham SC
Sebastian Mountain ILCA4 Felpham SC

After a quick turnaround the fleet were underway for Race 2 in much the same light testing conditions. A tight start line led to one OCS but the fleet were off and with the tide starting to ease led to a wider spread on the first beat.

A big shout out to the juniors and visiting sailors certainly kept the DQ sailors on their toes pushing them all the way around! With some position changes throughout the race, including 2 capsizes it was a fun day to be on the water, nothing too challenging but what better way to spend time?

After another 2 laps the top 3 results looked like this;