Dartmoor Gliding News-Sunday 19th June 2016

With the Longest Day a compete washout, there was nothing else for it but to convene a Midsomer Murdering of the To Do List!

The Longest Day?  The Longest Cloud – more like..!
Today was a washout from start to finish.

 So, whilst Martin Cropper gave our One Day Course candidate (who had travelled from Wells) Peter Spencer a teach-in on what might have been, Rick Wiles set about the 'new' quad bike with a grinder, son Matt Wiles managed to squeeze himself into the small Zetor (there must have been a bump in the roof) to (almost) complete mowing the airfield grass, and Roger Appleboom, Pete and Paula Howarth undertook the quite complicated task of manufacturing a new support bracket for the launchpoint steps prior to them being repositioned (see photos).

Paula Howarth at work on the new bracket for the launchpoint steps.

In torrential rain, Martin Cropper and Roger Appleboom
remove the old bracket from the launchpoint steps.

Roger Appleboom looks very pleased with the repositioned launchpoint steps.

The launchpoint steps bracket.

This took us up to a relatively late lunchtime (2pm), following which we decided to draw stumps and spend more time with our families. 

Thanks go to everyone who pledged their support for the Longest Day and to those who took heed of the weather forecast and did not commit themselves to long, fruitless, journeys. The better news is that the weather is looking good for next weekend.

Martin Cropper