DF65’s
With the wind over the houses this week, it was a morning of wind shifts, big gusts and a fleet of 13 frustrated sailors. After Peter had donned the waders and moved a few marks around to get some sort of windward and leeward leg, racing got underway at 11:00 under the wathful eye of Dave, whilst Peter finished helping out John Lee to setup his newly rigged boat.
Race 1 was a very comfortable win for Paul, whilst the rest of the fleet battled for the remaining places and some tight finishes. Peter then took the win in race 2 with Alan and Andrew making up the podium. Wins were spread over another 3 sailors in the next six races sailed. It was certainly difficult to be consistent with the wind sometimes coming from an unexpected direction and often changing the winner at the last minute on the (nominal) beat to the finish line.
One finish in particular looked to be going to John Carlin for the win, until Alan got a gust up the near shore and broad reached over the line, with a photo finish between 3 other boats (if only we had a finish line camera!).
A “fun” morning’s sail with Peter getting the overall win even with the one “lost race” penalty, followed by John Carlin and then Alan Watkinson. Thanks to Dave for the photos and for working out the averages as we didn’t all do an RO duty.
- Peter Baldwin 10pts 3wins
- John Carlin 14pts 2wins
- Alan Watkinson 15pts 1win
- Dave Williams 18pts 1win
- Paul Plested 21pts 1win
- Charles Legg 28pts
- Neil Westbrook 29pts
- Malcolm Harvey 39pts 1x3rd
- Sally Collings 39pts
- Richard Walker 41pts
- Andrew Potter 42pts
- Frans King 51pts
- John Lee 70pts
DF95’s
