Wednesday 21st March

The first day of spring started quite cloudy with a fresh easterly wind but by the time the gliders were walked up the field the sun started to break through the clouds and thermals started to form.
There was a long two-seater list and soon most of the gliders were soaring, Matt did his usual trick of launching early and vanishing for most of the day arriving back with his usual flourish. Tim & Joe had the ASW 19 rigged and flown, Eric flew the LS7 and Nick H paid a visit in the RF 5.
Everyone had plenty of flying and the lucky ones some soaring, we flew until sunset.
The shower block revamp is making good progress with Steve W. finishing of the building work. - JSt

Matt's sightseeing trip
Didn't expect much today with RASP pessimistic,and a grim overcast on the way to the club with a cool easterly breeze adding to the gloom. Decided to rig anyway and by lunch time there were a few little cu forming under the higher stratus which was starting to break. Declared the club 100 and spent an age scratching around off the launch. The vis was dire, but bumbled my way down to YEO and decided to bin the task and follow the clouds to have a look at the Cerne Abbas Giant and then stretched the return run by going out west.