It will be an opportunity for those interested in taking up the sport to sail one of the club boats with an experienced sailor and learn the ropes.

Children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Meanwhile, club members have been out on the loch over the past week.

The Tuesday Series was held in a light easterly wind, which dropped throughout, resulting in a catalogue of mistakes.

Malcolm Heron (Laser) brushed into Graeme Knox (Laser) in the pre-start period but left his penalty turns so late that he was still completing these at the gun, leaving him several lengths behind the fleet.

At the start Graeme was on the line with perfect timing to get clear away from the rest but, while still safely leading at the windward mark, chose to go round it the wrong way and finished up at the rear.

Later in the race, Jim Green (Solo) was still battling it out with Nick Whyte (Solo) when he sailed outside the line after the second lap to throw away any chance of staying in the results.

Tony Cook (Laser) took advantage of Graeme's early mistake to get to the front at the first mark and remained in the lead to the finish.

Nick and Jim were pressing the Lasers all the way through the race until Jim's mistake left him out of the running.

Nick did not manage to keep sufficiently close to the leading Lasers but did finish third ahead of Graeme, who, despite working hard to recover form his early mistake, remained too far back to challenge the other Lasers.

Tony Cook won the race just ahead of Malcolm Heron and Nick Whyte (Solo) took third.

In the Thursday Series, three Lasers, a Europe and a Solo launched and found the easterly wind extremely gusty and fickle.

Jim Green (Solo) was first away, followed by Brian Finnie (Europe).

Murdo Black was first to come to grief with a capsize just before the Laser start, allowing Tony Cook and Graeme Knox to get clean away from him.

Everyone had to work hard just to stay upright and Tony Cook was next to take a swim at first gybe mark. His rudder then fell off, though he carried on once this was fixed.

After a lap, Jim Green capsized at the same spot as Tony, then Murdo did the same shortly afterwards.

Both boats drifted together in testimony to the hazards of downwind couping as both struggled to regain control, became exhausted and retired, Jim unfortunately with a damaged boat.

Not having dieted over the winter helped Graeme keep his boat flatter than the rest and having overtaken the lighter Brian he held on to first, with Brian second and Tony third.

A strong and gusty easterly wind crossed the loch for the Sunday Series.

Charles Morrish and Alison Geddes, practising for the Enterprise travelling series, were challenged by Brian Finnie (Europe), Graeme Knox (Laser), Tony Cook, who had taken notice of his last race in similar conditions and opted for a Laser Radial, and Malcolm Heron, who was testing a club Wayfarer with new member Bruce Scharlau.

In the first race the Enterprise and Laser initially remained close and even collided, while the Radial was never far away. The Wayfarer ploughed on at the rear until Brian Finnie had an annoying capsize and his mast got stuck, necessitating safety boat assistance, so he had to retire.

In the second race, the Enterprise got away well and remained at the front followed by the Laser Radial.

The Laser provided comedy moments when Graeme first fell out, then capsized in normal fashion twice before finishing his nightmare by being spectacularly catapulted out of the boat during a high speed downwind roll.

The under test Wayfarer ploughed on at the rear and finished the race in one piece, but Brian Finnie had the worst afternoon, repeated his capsize at exactly the same spot as before and was again force to retire.

In order of placing, both races were identical. Charles Morrish (Enterprise) took easy firsts from Tony Cook, (Laser Radial), Graeme Knox (Laser), Malcolm Heron (Wayfarer) and Brian Finnie (Europe) in that order.

There are two more mid-week races before the open day on Sunday, when the club welcomes anyone who wishes to join them for a sail on the loch.