Cobley Series

September 26, 2017 jollysailor

Cobley Series 1 & 2 3^rd and 10^th September

Pursuit Races

The first two races in this series produced two entirely different leader boards with the 3^rd September race showing the first three as Richard S, Chris H and Hadey and the 10^th September showing the first three as Newton, Jon and Karen, so it promises to be a keenly contested series.

Handicap Races

Again the two leader boards for races 1 and 2 were different with 3^rd September showing Chris H, Ralph and Richards S and the 10^th Newton, Jon and Karen.

One interesting point was that on the 10^th September the first three were the same for both the Pursuit and Handicap Races, something which does not happen very often.

Cobley Series 3 24^th September

It was a nice sunny morning with a SE wind of about 8 mph, but this increased slightly for the second race and changed direction throughout both races! Richard S was SOOD and used a Tektona start with the first leg down to 1, then 3, 9, 6, 5 and back through the start.

Pursuit Race

There were 21 starters with Bea first away in her Oppie followed some time later by Ron (Mirror) then Rhys in his Topper. With such a light wind there was only a lap and a half before the finish horn sounded and the positions at the gun (horn) were –

1^st Chris H–Comet; 2^nd Ralph-Laser; 3^rd Ron-Mirror; 4^th Bea-Oppie; 5^th Newton-Solo; 6^th James-Laser

Handicap Race

In the light wind most of the fleet was closely bunched and on the first lap about nine boats approached No 6 line abreast. Alistair (Laser) was in pole position on the inside and should have had water rights, but trying to get that many boats to yield water proved impossible and inevitably resulted in a raft! Probably half the fleet with the notable exception of Alistair should have done penalty turns, but in the event there seemed to be an unspoken agreement that it was a “racing incident” and everyone sailed on!

At the end of the first lap Karen (Laser) was first back through the line closely followed by the Lasers of Ralph and Mark with Jess (Radial) 4^th, Newton (Solo) 5^th and Sally & Stuart (Leader) 6^th. Less than 30 seconds covered the next eight boats who were led by James (Laser), then Adrian (Vago s/h), Chris H (Comet), Dave & Ann (Leader), Mike C (Wanderer), Rick (Laser), Hadey (Radial) and Julian W (Solo). Further back were Mike A (Lightning), Ron (Mirror) and the unfortunate Alistair, who must have lost well over a minute by being forced to re-round No 6. Dean (Vago s/h) and Rhys retired on this lap.

There were only two laps and Karen retained her lead crossing the line well ahead of Mark, who had moved up to 2^nd with James who had gained four places coming through in 3^rd. The other movers on the last lap were Hadey up seven places to 6^th, Dave & Ann up two places to 8^th, Julian and Mike A both up five places to 9^thand 10^threspectively, Rick up one to 11^th, Alistair up four places to 13^th and Laser 155920 (did not sign on) up one place to 17^th.

Bea did not complete the second lap, but not sure if she received the gun one lap early or whether she retired.

The final positions on the water were –

1^st Karen; 2^nd Mark; 3^rd James; 4^th Ralph; 5^th Newton; 6^th Hadey

On handicap there should be some surprising changes particularly in the case of Ron who finished last on the water, but should take 1^st place!

Newton should move up to 2^nd, Mike A up to 3^rd, Chris H 4^th, Hadey 5^th and Dave & Ann 6^th.

Thanks to Richard S and the OOD Team of Tracey T and Gareth D.

Cobley Series

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