Newcastle University Sailing Club

The first event was the Leeds Halloween Howler which involved a minibus full of fun for the freshers initiation!  This was followed by an epic night in fruity which set us up nicely for the racing on saturday.  The first team, while winning all their races on saturday, found themselves starting behind alot of the time but made up for it with some solid boat speed and good boat handling to finish top of their group at the end of the day with only Nottingham 1sts to race.  The 2nds also had a solid day winning all of their races apart from against Durham Ladies.  This left them as 2nd in their group at the end of day 1.  After a big night out dressed as witches we arrived at the sailing club to find gale force winds and after leeds race committee tried to get in some races the decision was made after lunch to cancel the rest of racing.  This left the 1sts in first on count back of number of points with the seconds in a very creditable 5th!