Frostbite Series 2 – 15th December 2019

Another windy Sunday with a SW wind around 15 mph with the usual gusts. Newton set a long first beat to 3 then A (about where 2 should be, but 2 had drifted off!), 9, 5, 8, 6,7 and back through the start. It was good to see Hadey, Hugh and Will back out on the water.

There would have been 15 starters, but Julian B went out to the start, but the rudder stock on his D-Zero broke before the race started. The remaining 14 got away without further incident.

Simon B (Blaze) was first back across the line followed two minutes later by Karen sailing a Radial rig, but she was only just ahead of Jon in a (Laser). Ten seconds later a quartet of tightly bunched Lasers came through with Hugh leading Adrian, Mike T and Ken (using a Radial rig). Hadey (4.7) crossed in 8^th place with the first double -hander of Dave & Ann (Leader) about a minute further back in 9^th, but they were only four seconds in front of Dean & Nick (Vago). Rhys (4.7) was in 11^th place with Mike C & Sally (Leader) bearing down on him. Then there was a gap of 40 seconds before Will (Radial) and Jeremy (Laser) crossed the line.  

By the end of the second lap Mike T had moved up four places to 2^nd and Jon had passed Karen to move to 3^rd place.  Karen was down to 4^th and Hugh and Adrian down to 5^th and 6^th. Hadey gained a place to move to 7^th as Ken, who was just ahead of her, retired. Mike C & Sally made up two places to move to 9^th just behind Dave & Ann, so the battle of the leaders was now on. Will also gained two places by passing Rhys and Dean & Nick.

At the end of the third and last lap Simon crossed the line in first place nearly two minutes ahead of Jon, who had got past Mike to take 2^nd place.  The only other mover was Jeremy who gained a place when Rhys retired with a gear failure.

The final order on the water was – 1^st Simon; 2^nd Jon; 3^rd Mike T; 4^th Karen; 5^th Hugh; 6^th Adrian

On corrected time the order becomes –

1^st Karen; 2^nd Hadey; 3^rd Jon; 4^th Simon; 5^th Mike T; 6^th Hugh

Thanks to Newton and the OOD Team of Sam (the only one on the rota!) and special thanks to Ellen, Emily, Andrew & Thomas M and Roland L who stepped up to volunteer  and make the race possible.