So with just two club launches on Thursday before the Tuggies decided to cancel the day due to the gusty southerly wind, the task of the Quest for the Holy Grail NHL - Tintagel Castle - Glastonbury - NHL had to be scrubbed.
On Friday - it was all to play for - but the weather initially looked again quite dodgy, Task setters decided on an endurance task called Beat the Clock, but at briefing actually added in OLC scoring as well.
Dan Hender JDP had decided that with a light southerly wind, he would rig the Juniors K6 DRE with a better chance of staying airborne on the southerly ridge - now that's Enterprising! but the plan didn't quite come together with just Tom Edwards in K8 and Dan in K6 taking a launch, conditions started to change and a change of ends of the whole grid was called and it became very soarable.
K6 DRE (JDPII) (Dan Johns)
The Cub, Eurofoxes and Pawnee started to launch the Grid into a convergence that was moving north, but by 13:30 The Cub and Eurofoxes called it a day, with just the Pawnee coping with the turbulent aerotows until the convergence got out of reach.
Glide and Seek soon showed that gliders were heading off up country, and Witter / Marriott in Arcus OEL, Jules Anderson in Discus DC eventually landed back home at Lleweni Park whilst 620 flew home to Lasham.
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| Rhyll Beach (Jules Anderson) |
Jules was still flying late into the evening and managed to capture the North Wales coast as well as the 'foreign parts' bonus, combined with height gain over 5000ft, long flight and distance came out easily the day winner.
Jules even managed to find a Denbigh tug pilot to fly him back to North Hill in time for briefing on Saturday. - J&P
