ON another warm weekend, with not much wind, there were two different sailing events on the Welsh Harp.

Saturday afternoon featured one of the four events in the year when all the Harp clubs join for a trophy race. This time is was the Singlehanded Championships for one person racing a two-man boat, which meant there was nothing for the singlehanded Lasers.

As this is always held on a Saturday, the entry, unsurprisingly, was mainly GP14s from the BTYC, Seahorse and North Circular clubs, which race weekly. Wembley produced only four boats but, as they won the Firefly and Merlin races, and were second and seventh out of the 26 GP14s, they did their club proud.

The race officer started the two Fireflies, one Merlin and 26 GP14s together in a north west wind, blowing diagonally across the lake, and the lead was taken by the Merlin of Wembley's David Lapes, who increased his lead with the use of his spinnaker on the long run dead downwind and won unopposed.

Wembley's David Evans had only one opponent in the Fireflys, Seahorse's Alan Laurie. Laurie dropped back after a good first lap and retired, leaving Wembley with another unopposed win.

In the GP14 race there were 12 from BTYC, nine from Seahorse, three from North Circular and two from Wembley.

Seahorse's Richard Lord, regarded as the Harp's top GP sailor, won convincingly, ahead of Wembley's Stephen Janering, with BTYC's Ruslan Scuterline in third.

In Sunday's penultimate day of Wembley SC's Spring Series, there were 33 boats in action.

Largest fleet was the singlehanded Lasers, where Paul Beard won both races to put him in a strong position to win the Series title.

Roger Wilson was second each time, which should also get him on the prize list, and third each time was New Zealander Brent Newsome.

The Merlin Series is still open. Out of the best six races, Colin Brockbank has won seven, but Duncan Salmon's two wins got him up to four, so all will depend on the final races this Sunday.

Behind Salmon in the morning were Antony and Mayuri Rickaby. Third was Alan Broadbent.

Behind Salmon in the midday race were David Bland and Hailey Cox, with third place going to Brockbank, who had missed the morning race in the absence of his crew. New member Eric Szabo did an excellent job for his first race in a Merlin.

The RS200 family tradition was continued with Francis Bucknall, crewed by his 10-year-old son Bill, winning the morning race from Tony Wakeling and his daughter Kate.

Julian Bradley and Lill Bates, not relations, may have only come third, but they won the midday race from the Wakelings, with third place going to Adam and Yong Jenkins.

David Evans followed winning the Firefly singlehanded race with two consecutive wins, crewing Mark Candelas in the MRX races. He persuaded Lottie Wakeling to crew his MRX and they finished second ahead of two MRX crews, Martin Thompson and Chris O'Neill, who had opted to sail together, alternating the helming.

At midday, second place went to Graham Bray and James Francis, who benefited from O'Neill and Thompson losing their second spot when they were deemed not to have returned to recross the finishing line after a premature start.

This Sunday the Harp will be closed to all but competitors in the annual Laser Open Meeting when more than 30 good Lasers from clubs all over the south east will be taking part.