Seven smiling faces turned up on a lovely sunny morning for Round 4 of the East Devon FTC BR championship. Tom hung on until 9.15am just in case a latecomer or two might swell our ranks, but then it was time to get going. As luck would have it, I ended up with the number one place, so that was bench one in the first detail of the day, along with Tom and Eddy. The breeze was very light, but never the less full attention had to be paid to conditions in order to avoid the dr

Today's weather forecast was worrying - 18mph winds with 45mph gusts. The direction was west southwest, meaning that it came predominantly from behind the benches. This always provides some of the most challenging conditions encountered during our benchrest matches, as it gives rise to those 'fishtailing' winds which are continually changing from left to right. And, sure enough, the sea of flags was experiencing a serious difference of opinion - most of us couldn't extract a