After weeks of early summer sunshine and balmy winds, all seemed promising for one of Scotland’s premier yachting events, The Scottish Flying Fifteen Championships, at Solway Yacht Club.
The fleet of fast elegant keelboats arrived in Kippford from all over the UK and Ireland ready for an early start on the tide on Saturday.
The weather had different ideas and gone was the sunshine and ideal wind, instead an overcast clammy heat and no wind at all.
