Spring Series 8 – 8th May 2022

With an ENE wind 6 – 10 mph (depending upon where you were on the lake), Ron set the first beat as A (just off the bow of moored Tektona) then 5, 4, 2, 3, S.

There were 14 starters and the race team decided to list their positions on the race sheet in random order rather than positional order for both races. Not really sure why they would choose to do this as it must make it more difficult when recording positions and times across the line.

I confess I am biased in this respect as it makes writing any sort of a report recording positional changes a nightmare!

Pursuit Race

At the gun the final positions were – 1^st Chris H/Comet; 2^nd Chris K/Laser; 3^rd Karen/Laser; 4^th Roland/Solo; 5^th Jess/Laser; 6^th William/Topper 4.2; 7^th Ed/Aero 5; 8^th Thomas/Radial

Handicap Race

Ron moved the first mark A into the middle of the lake and slightly further south and tweaked the start line.

In the fairly light wind, it was a two lap race and the order on the water was –

1^st Karen/Laser; 2^nd Jess/Laser; 3^rd Chris K/Laser; 4^th Roland/Solo; 5^th Adrian/Laser; 6^th Chris H/Comet.

On corrected time the final positions become –

1^st Chris H; 2^nd Roland; 3^rd Karen; 4^th Ed; 5^th Jess; 6^th Chris K

Thanks to SOOD Ron and the race team of Dan Sadler, Gareth Evans, Patrick Crowley, Richard Collins and Robin Popham.  

Thank goodness for radios, as the Committee Boat (SOOD and crew) discovered that they had run out of petrol and were stranded and had to be themselves rescued at the end of the day’s racing!

Note to all competitors – please remember to enter your details on the Declaration Sheet including the names of crew.