Another glorious spring day at the Brook today with light winds, maybe up to 5 knots at times, mainly from the west nor-west and a few frustrating swings and lulls to spice things up. I had the pleasure of being PRO and after taking everyone's donation to enter the race, gave the skippers their handicaps. Wednesday Coordinator Stuart Harris has split the fleet into scratch , 20 seconds, 40 seconds and 60 seconds after the gun, and the usual 30, 20, 10 second penalty for each race. Overall podium finishers will have their handicaps adjusted at the discretion of the coordinator. Denis Lees won the first race off scratch, with Chris Wood off 20 in second and Peter Sylvester off 40 in third place. John Banks stepped up to the podium in Race 2 after starting off 20 seconds with an improving Rob Cooney off 20 in second place and the Red Dragon picking up third spot from 40 behind. A steady breeze blowing down the dam was enough to call Race 3 Long Distance and handicaps adjusted accordingly. The extra distance and a few holes to negotiate allowed the experienced salties to reign back the scratch markers with Bruce Rose off 40 seconds taking the gun well ahead of backmarker David Jones and sailing below his true handicap, Chris Wood in third place. At the lunch break, Chris Wood topped the leader board on 9 points, with Bruce Rose 3 points adrift in second spot and Andrew Wardrop 4 points back in third. Rob Cooney was in fourth place on 18 points and the hungry pack of John Banks, Rod Jackman and David Jones all tied 1 point back in fifth place. Racing resumed with a few hints of a sea breeze but the nor wester eventually kicked back in and the same course was sailed for the last three races. The back marking Team Vickers stole the show in Race 4 with the Silver Fox beating home Rod Jackman and David Jones, all off 60 seconds. Chris Wood sailed another consistent race to win Race 6 from the improving Denis Lees in second place, with John Banks in third. With the last race to be sailed, Chris Wood was comfortably on top of the leader board with 10 points, Denis Lees' second in the previous race shot him to second spot with 16 points and John Banks jumped from sixth to third on 17 points. The final race of the series was won by Peter Sylvester off 50 seconds, and another solid second for Denis Lees with the always competitive Rod Jackman in third place. Final results were a comfortable win and custody of the Plank Trophy to Chris Wood, second place to Denis Lees who received the Coordinator's Cup and John Banks taking home the honour of finishing third. Next Sunday is the IOM State Regatta and again I urge the Wednesday sailors to enter, if not come and watch with the family. Til then, wet sails, Stuart Dawes.
A glorious spring day at Risdon Brook for Round 1 of the IOM Summer Series. Clear sunny skies and a nor-wester of 10 - 15 knots had the 12 skippers umming and ah-ing over which rig to choose, but it became fairly obvious that B rig was the wise choice for the mornings scratch racing. PRO for the day was Les Hanson, ably assisted by David Murfet. Ray Joyce took line honours for Race 1 with Michael Hickman second and John Hall third. Race 2 saw Rod Jackman take the win from Ray Joyce and David Jones. Race 3 was won by yours truly with Michael Hickman second and the Silver Fox third, who then took out Race 4 followed by Rod Jackman in second and myself in third. Race 5 was when Ray threw out the challenge by easily winning from Rod and Michael. Chalk up another win for Ray in Race 6 with Darc and Stu Harris in the minor positions, and another win for Ray in Race 7 with Rod and Darc a distant second and third. Ray had it in the bag for the eighth and final race of the scratch series and nailed the door shut with another win, with Michael and myself filling the minor places. No surprises who won the day. Ray Joyce was streets ahead in the final results with 7 points, 9 points clear of Rod Jackman in second place with 16 points, 1 point ahead of Peter Darcy in third place. I can't tell you much about the handicap racing, as I left after the scratch racing, but I can tell you that there was a three way countback for first, second and third and a countback for fourth and fifth. A couple of wins for Michael Hickman gave him the edge from Peter Sylvester's solo win and Peter Darcy third place overall. Next weekend is the two day State Marblehead Championship. Briefing and 10:15, racing from 10:30. Til then, wet sails, Stuart Dawes.
Another fine day at Risdon Brook for the mid week Handicap Series today with an up and down gentle nor-wester to 5-8 knots. Last week's winner Ray Joyce was PRO and duly gave the thirteen skippers their required dosage of handicaps, on the usual 1 lap course. Anthony Castray returned from his sailing voyage to win the first race off scratch with Pete Sylvester off 20 seconds in second and John Banks off scratch in third. Race 2 saw the Silver Fox with his Chinze off a 30 seconds take line honours from John Banks off 10 seconds and myself off 1:10 in third. Pete Sylvester visited the podium again in Race 3 winning from Andrew Wardrop and Darcy. Race 4 was Long Distance with adjusted handicaps. Rob Cooney got home first off scratch followed by Bruce Rose off 30 seconds and Anthony Castray off 45 seconds. Pete Sylvester bagged another win off 30 seconds in the fifth race from Bruce Rose off 20 seconds and Dave Murfet of scratch in third. Before the last race, Peter Sylvester was at the top of the leader board, five points clear ahead on 10 points. Rob Cooney and Bruce Rose were tied for second place on 15 points, John Banks on 18 points, Darcy, Anthony and myself all 1 point behind on 19 points. Second and third was up for grabs. I pulled a win out of somewhere with Pete Sylvester second and Anthony Castray third. In the end, Peter Sylvester managed to with the day by the skin of his teeth, on count back from Rob Cooney. A win in the last rocketed me from 7th to take third place overall. Next Sunday is the final round of the Winter Series for Marblehead class. with racing commencing from 11:00 AM. Till then, wet sails, Stuart Dawes
Tasmanian state IOM regatta today saw 12 boats race in variable A rig conditions. Congrats to Mike Hickman first from Rod Jackman then David Jones third. |
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