On Friday, the North Hill Nomads set up their encampment consisting of 4 tents, 4 camper vans, Nick's caravan and a large gazebo for the barrel of Otter!
Saturday was a non-contest flying day and young Connor weedled his way into the back seat of Chris Fox’s Duo Discus for a couple hours of wave hunting to the west near York.
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| North Hill Nomads (JB) |
The Two-seater comp started on Sunday with a 234k task with 4 turning points. Similar to Competition Enterprise, competitors can choose to return to Pocklington finish from any of the turning points which provided a choice of tasks for the varying performance of gliders in the comp. Phil Morrison and Connor Williams won first place for the ‘hot ships’ class in DD3. Mike Armstrong and Stirling Melhuish won the Wood class and were overall winner of the day with an amazing flight up to Sutton on Forrest and down to Gainsborough and back - a flight which many of the modern plastic gliders failed to complete! 
Humber Estuary heading South from DD3
Unfortunately JP and JB in BBB didn’t fare so well and after a struggle to get the first TP found themselves stranded and had to fly east for miles to Pickering and beyond, slowly getting further and further offtrack from Pocklington in a desperate attempt to remain airborne in the hope that they would eventually find a route of ‘energy’ to get them home!
Mike and Stirling collecting the Bubbly (Nick Jones)
So on Day 1, AXJ Blue Eagle came overall 1st, DD3 came 2nd overall and BBB came 2nd to last! But the winners got bottles of bubbly so after an uneventful 2nd day of the comp the Nomads still had some bubbly from the first day to celebrate together with another of John Pursey’s amazing suppers! - JB
