Marblehead Scratch Round 2

​A difficult day overall today. Some nightmares returned with wind direction scarily similar to last years IOM Nationals. Strength from nothing to 25 knots with not much time between extremes, with a few rain squalls added in for good measure. As our friends at MBYC reported on their sailing results today "The forecast was of the type "it may blow and it may rain but it may not, and if it does we have no idea how hard or where from."
So it proved to be."

We had six sailors along today and with John Short directing things for us, we got way nicely on time. Unfortunately, Ray had a boat issue just prior to button press ont he first race, however was fixed for race 2.

Boats were either in C (Ray, Kyle and John) or C2 rigs (Lisa, Rod and Stu), wit Lisa changing up to a C for the last 3 races. In a way, it did handicap things a little bit, but it's what the skippers felt was right in the variable conditions.

We got 10 races finished in the session, with Kyle running away to a dominant win today on just 10 points.
Ray took out second spot, with 19 points and Lisa rounded out the top 3 with 21.

The day required a lot of concentration with a heavily flowing tide and a lot of effort spent in looking for ht eright breeze and being on the correct tack to take advantage when you could.

An enjoyable day overall, with a few sprinkles of frustrations that all days have.

Unfortunately, that's the last Marblehead sail till Mid March (John Emms Memorial), after the National Championships.

Coming up

Wednesday sees DF95 Handicap at the Dam, starting at 1030.

Saturday is the IOM Woodie/Classic day at Risdon Brook, button press at 1300

Next Sunday is IOM Scratch, also at MBYC, button press at 1300

Kyle