The forecasts were correct this week to give us a breeze that was close to being straight down the lake with a start at the clubhouse end and with 6 to 10 knots. Not so good was the light drizzle that we started with, although that soon passed and we had sunshine from around 14:00 for the remainder of the afternoon. RO duties were shared through the fleet and so 11 races were sailed with everyone dropping out to run a race (and scoring 0 for the race).
The racing was great and very close especially at the windward mark. This could occasionally cause a few problems, with last minute tacks for the mark, but generally few problems were caused.
Peter had the best of the afternoon with six wins from the eleven races, with Martin picking up four and Alan the remaining one. Paul Plested had a great afternoon, with a string of second places at the start of the afternoon and may have placed higher were it not for getting hooked up on the windward mark in one race. John Carlin was often in the mix at the first windward mark and also picked up a good number of seconds and thirds after a difficult start. John Beech had a great start to the afternoon and led the fleet around the first mark, but unfortunately was unable to capitalise on his position.
So the win went to Peter, with Martin second and John Brierley third, consistently up there with many races in the top three, but no win. Martin may have been placed higher except his transmitter battery ran out during the last race giving him a second DNF. The points were very close in the lower order with 4 places separeted by just a point.
- Peter Baldwin 172 14pts
- Martin Roberts 184 17pts
- John Brieley 84 22pts
- Paul Plested 154 25pts
- Alan Watkinson 23 29pts
- John Carlin 05 30pts
- Frans King 59 50pts
- John Beech 288 52pts
- Andrew Peter 179 53pts
- Dave Williams 33 60pts
- Malcom Harvey 2019 68pts
