Frostbite Series 5 – 23rd January 2022

It was a very light wind this morning coming from the SSE and varying from 0 to 3 mph! In the absence of a breeze James P decided to use a letter course, using the right letters but not necessarily in the right order (to quote Mr Morecambe!), A, D, B, C and back through the S.

It was also one of those rare occasions when the numbers of the race team matched the numbers on the water.

Pursuit Race

With the light wind and the fiendishly short course there were just over three laps before the 35 minute gun sounded. For the first two laps the order remained the same with early starter Ron/Mirror leading from the Comets of Chris H and Aileen with Roland/Solo in 4^th place. The Lasers of Mike T and Chris K were next with Paul W/Morbic ahead of Nigel/Laser.

Not sure what happened, but Chris H had a disastrous third lap dropping from 2^nd to 5^th. Ron was still leading but Aileen was now 2^nd and Mike T had moved up to 3^rd ahead of Roland and Chris K. Nigel and Ron did not actually complete their third lap before the gun sounded.

The final order was 1^st Aileen; 2^nd Mike T; 3^rd Ron; 4^th Roland; 5^th Chris K; 6^th Chris H.

Handicap Race

The wind did pick up slightly on the second lap, which resulted in a six lap race for the leaders.

Chris H was first back across the line just ahead of Mike T, who was followed closely by Aileen, Chris K and Roland. Ron was next across followed by Nigel and Paul W in his usual position.

By the end of the second lap the two Lasers of Mike T and Chris K had moved to the front pushing Chris H down to 3^rd with Roland passing Aileen to move to 4^th with no further changesbehindthem.

On the third lap Chris K and Chris H passed Mike T to move to 1^st and 2^nd. The only other change was Nigel passing Rom to move to 6^th place. Paul received the gun at the end of his third lap.

The fourth and fifth laps saw no change in the order, but Nigel and Ron were finished at the end of their fifth laps.

So, the fleet was down to five for the final lap and perhaps unsurprisingly in the light conditions there was still no change in the order which was – 1^st Chris K; 2^nd Chris H, 3^rd Mike T; 4^th Roland; 5^th Aileen with Nigel and Ron one lap short in 6^th and 7^th and Paul 8^th.

On corrected time the order changes to – 1^st Chris H; 2^nd Chris K; 3^rd Aileen; 4^th Mike T; 5^th Roland; 6^th Ron.

Thanks to SOOD James Primrose along with Bea & Rhys Primrose, Ainhoa Montero de Espinala, Graham Kneebone, James Coombs, Joanne Holden and Marcin Tiela.