Frostbite Series 11 – 6th March 2022

There was a brisk SE wind this morning about 12 mph to start with but increasing during the morning to 16 mph and lots of stronger gusts.

Pursuit Race

There were 10 starters and at the end of the first lap Ron/Mirror was leading with Emily/4.7 in 2nd place and Roland/|Solo in 3rd. Ralph was the first of the Lasers in 4th spot having caught and passed Chris H/Comet and Steve S/Blaze the last away was up to 6th. Aileen/Comet was 7th with Mike T & Alessandro/470 closing in fast in 8th place with the Laser of Chris K and Rick behind them.

At the end of the second lap Ron was still in 1st place, but Roland had passed Emily to move up to 2nd.  Steve was up to 4th having passed Ralph and Chris H and Mike & Alessandro had also gained two places to 6th. Chris K did not Make it to the end of the lap.

At the gun Emily has repassed Roland to take 1st place and the final order was – 1st Emily; 2nd Roland; 3rd Steve; 4th Ralph; 5th Ron; 6th Aileen; 7th Mike & Alessandro; 8th Rick; 9th Chris H     

Handicap Race

Aileen, Chris K and Steve decided to give this one a miss and Chris H retired before the end of the first lap as the wind got very frisky!

Ralph was first back across the line leading Emily by 10 seconds who was just ahead of Mike & Alessandro. Roland came through in 4th place some 20 seconds ahead of Rick who in turn was about one minute ahead of Ron.

On the second lap Emily and Mike & Alessandro passed Ralph to move up to 1st and 2nd places. Roland had disappeared which moved Rick up to 4th and Ron up to 5th.

At the end of the third and last lap Mike & Alessandro took the victory on the water and Rick came to grief, so the final order was – 1st Mike & Alessandro; 2nd Emily; 3rd Ralph; 4th Ron.

On corrected time this becomes – 1st Emily; 2nd Ron; 3rd Mike & Alessandro; 4th Ralph.   

A great double for Emily today !!

Thanks to SOOD Darren Ballard and the race team of Jeremy Tonkin, Paul Waterman, Robin Popham, Sam Shears and Tamsin Pagella. (apart from Darren none of these were actually recorded on the race sheet, but I trust that your were all present and correct!)