Marblehead Scratch Round 3

Well, today was a mix for us. Light airs and shifty breeze making things “interesting”.
 
Rewards aplenty for those daring enough to chase the wind for a potential passing lane, but equally so, it provided a big hole that the sailor was not going to recover from.

One of the great things with the class locally is that everyone is very closely matched – which unfortunately means that a mistake on the course often put you back with no real way to recover as the ones in front hardly made an error for the race.
 
Showing the competitiveness, all five skippers scored a race win today.
 
At the end of the nine races today, Ray proved to be way too consistent, winning with 12 points overall. Three race wins and three seconds showing the consistency throughout the day.
Second place went to Lisa, two points adrift on 14.
Third place went to John Hall, who showed impressive bursts of speed, especially down wind and was gutsy enough to go out on his own a few times to catch some great lifts. John finished 3 further adrift on 17 points.
 
In all, a difficult and sometimes frustrating day, but a great tune up for next weeks John Emms Memorial.
 
Big thanks to Bodge for his efforts as PRO today. We have been used to running ourselves in the RM Scratch days but it was fantastic to not need to worry about that and have someone there for the day to look after starts, finishes and keeping us efficient between races to maximise our races for the day.
 
Coming Up
Wednesday is Super Wednesday with long distance sailing. For those who are a bit unsure of the physical demands of the day we have put an 8 race limit on the event so all up the walking requirement might not be too much more than today’s 12 race event. Button press at 1030.
Next Sunday is the Marblehead John Emms Memorial Regatta. Button press at 1030. Entries for this event close Friday afternoon, so please get your entries and payments in as soon as possible.
 
Kyle