Southerly breeze today – more or less as forecasted – from the clubhouse corner, which slowly filled in after looking very unpromising as DF65 racers were arriving. Although forecast to build significantly during the morning, this never quite happened and the breeze varied up and down quite a bit with some fairly significant shifts as well.
Mike dsp was quick out of the blocks to win the first three races but then slightly lost his way after a race RO duty when normal business was resumed with John B winning the next three before he had to leave to catch up with work. The next three races had three different winners with JohnC, Clive and Mike taking the last three.
Racing, and particularly the starts, was all very close, with a few OCS calls during the morning and once again, although the start looked somewhat starboard end biased, skippers were able to take different sides of the beat during the morning to get to the top mark in the leading group. The last beat up from the leeward gate also proved interesting with different gate marks paying off at different times for the beat back to the line.
Following JohnB’s departure Mike dsp was able to hold on to win, with very close racing reflected in the points across the fleet with 3rd, 4th and 5th covered by 5 points (and some less than one point differences when averages for RO were used), and then 7th to 10th by less than 5.
Overall results as shown below with the usual thanks to Dave for getting everything going and Malcolm for working out the results (with a bit of help from AFleet!).
- Mike de St Paer 10.3 pts 4 wins
- John Carlin 16 pts 1 win
- Clive Warren 22 pts 1 win
- John Brierley 27 pts 3 wins
- Richard Robinson 27 pts
- Simon Bates 37.7 pts
- Paul Little . 44.6 pts
- Sally Collings 44.6 pts
- Richard Walker 46.9 pts
- Dave Williams 48.7 pts
- Charles Legg 53.9 pts
- Malcolm Harvey 64.9 pts
- Frans King 82 pts
