Edit - Scoop replied while I was (slowly) typing
Hi Bill
Despite the horrible weather and dangerous driving conditions, everyone who had booked in, turned up ready to race.
By 9.45am, the rain was still persisting down and the wind was gusting up to 40 mph, with 60 mph gusts forecast for midday.
After a brief discussion, everyone agreed that common sense must prevail, so for the sake of the rescue volunteers safety, the event was postponed.
It was a bit of a disappointment to me, that everyone had made such an effort to make sure the event could go ahead, drove all the the way there (including both Lancashire and North Lincolnshire members) only to find that we couldn't race. But safety had to be paramount and as the boats would have been airbourne for half the time, there was just too big a possibility that the rescue could have been hit.
We are hoping to re-schedule the event fairly soon as the Nottingham lads are very keen to have us there.
On the way home, we passed three seperate accidents where it appeared that cars has aquaplaned into the barriers on the side of the M1!!
Not a nice day to be out!
Cheers
Danny