Brit Nationals - Day 5 - Cancelled

Rain, albeit warm rain, has stopped play today and I have to say it’s a welcome rest day – I was totally shattered after yesterday, my left elbow in particular was swimming in deep heat last night which helped to keep the mozzies away!

Overall results after 3 tasks:
1 Gerolf Heinrichs
2 Grant Crossingham
3 Graham Phipps
4 Bruce Kavanagh
5 Gordon Rigg
6 Walter Mayer
7 Rich Lovelace
=8 Justin Needham
=8 Jesper Hassing
10 Dave Matthews

Spent the morning with Ben – and it seemed half the campsite all chipping in with their opinion “you don’t want to do it like that” – looking over the wreckage of his Combat L. We pieced it back together as best we could and have now got a pretty good idea as to why the accident happened which has, I think, helped to put Ben’s mind at rest.


I was surprised how people were on the look out for spares from the glider and would have been happy to take away parts which had been under a tremendous amount of stress in a tumble – we destroyed any part which could ‘potentially’ be reused and could have been affected. Ben now has a pretty good stock of spares – and is on the market for a new glider!

Gerolf’s talk the other day has really hit home with a few people who it appears do not regularly/periodically check their sprogs! My electronic sprog measuring device has been in demand and has given some interesting results – there is quite a bit of tweaking going on today!

My glider is checked before each competition and definitely 4 times a year – different weather conditions, transportation and general wear and tear all contribute to different settings.

Results – HERE