On Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August the Spinnaker Club held their two day Mirror open meeting at Blashford Lake, Ringwood.
The event on Saturday comprised of three team races with two teams from the home club taking part and two from visiting clubs. Light and variable winds made racing somewhat difficult but a pattern soon emerged with each team finishing in identical positions in all three races.
Visitors from Seasalter, Oxford, Stokes Bay, Sutton Bingham, Lymington Town, Spinnaker and Lilliput Sailing Clubs joined with the keener members of the host club to create a fleet of 23 for Poole's Mirror Open Meeting.
For the first race just on high water saw Gordon Foley in ‘Minnie Mouse’ leading at the windward mark with ‘Hot Pot Too', 'Apple Pie', 'Tom Thumb' and ‘Aquaforus Too,’ in close contention.
The following story appeared in the Daily Mirror, Monday 31st August 1964, page 5 so the report text is © Daily Mirror. Also thanks to the www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk .
There they go, smoothly and silently over sparkling waters, at the start of a memorably happy day. They are Mirror Class Sailing Dinghies and they are pictured above during a fun-packed and thrilling Mirror Dinghy Day held at Hastings, Sussex, at the weekend. Perfect weather made the day ideal for the seventy competitors and the spectators.
The following story appeared in the Daily Mirror, Monday 1st June 1964, page 2 so the report text is © Daily Mirror. Also thanks to the www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk .
Tailor Alf Buxton beat the sailing veterans yesterday to win a series of races on points in the biggest-ever race meeting for Mirror Class dinghies. Alf, from Canvey Island, Essex, was sailing with his wife Terry on the River Medway, Kent. He has been, sailing for only just over a year. Last year he was third in the Mirror Class National Championships. This year's championships will be held at Plymouth from August 10th -15th. Already more than forty boats have entered.
Editors Note: I assume Alf & Terry Buxton were sailing 101 - First Attempt
The story was recorded in the Daily Mirror so the following report text is © Daily Mirror. Also thanks to the www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk .
The following story appeared in the Daily Mirror, Monday 27th May 1963, page 17
What a glorious SUNday it was for sailing in the Super Daily Mirror dinghy. Attractive Ann Will, 20 (above), was one of the competitors who sailed in the first open meeting for Mirror class dinghies (editors note: this was actually the second, Wraysbury Lake SC on 12 April was the first) held on Saturday and yesterday.
Ann, of Welwyn . Garden City, Herts, skimmed her dinghy,"Willow", into into third place in one race.
Bill Jermy, 57, of Eversley, Hants, became the Mirror dinghy champion after scudding into the lead in every race yesterday, on the River Medway
Bill said : "My Mirror is just the thing. It’s so easy to cart around on my van." Twelve-year-old Christopher Scoble. of Hoo, Kent, was runner-up and miner Brian Taylor. 26, was third.
You can build a Mirror dinghy —it's 10ft. 10in. long and only weighs 90lb.— for just £63 11s.
Results
Editors note: We only know the first three places
| Rank | Boat | Helm & Crew | Club | R1 | R2 | Total | Nett | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 96 - 'Appy 'Arry | Bill Jermy | ||||||
| 2nd | Christopher Scoble | |||||||
| 3rd | Brian Taylor | |||||||
| Other boats which took part in sail number order | ||||||||
| 63 - Willow | Ann Will | |||||||
| 223 | ||||||||
