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Today’s (29th March) Marblehead results after 8 races:
1st Hugh 8pts 4 wins 2nd Graham 13pts 1 win 3rd Phil 14pts 3 wins 4th Chris 27 pts 5th Jim 42 pts
To be fair Phil missed some races as he was otherwise engaged for a while. Jim missed most of the races on a bit of a mechanical. Chris had some loose winch mounting problems so also missed some races. It was a fresh breeze some started with A rigs and rapidly changed to B. After a coffee break it was a quick change to C1s and should really have been C2s by the last two races. Richard U came on boat delivery duty but was feeling under the weather and went home again to recline on his sick bed. Richard J was engaged on family duties!
Datchet’s Craig and Nigel made the treck to Woodspring for the weekend – and did extremely well down there. It’ll have been blowing just as hard as it was for us at the Club, I imagine. Nigel got a couple of brilliant wins in the Viss and was right up there, but Craig sailed in a league of his own.
It was a brilliant bright day that greeted us. Clear, very clear, light and the lake appeared to be boiling….white horses all over the place. There was a large open meeting on for Flying Fifteens, wayfarers and wanderers so our South course venue at the main pontoon was impractical. HM did a super job with a compromised north course – with a new aluminium launching platform!!
The ‘big boys’ were away at Woodspring. So the hard core were ready to race at home!
It was meant to be five of us, then Phil was on family commitments – it being Mothers Day I guess. Then there were four.
It was quite obviously a C Rig kind of day (15-20 gusting 35 plus) , and out we went for a half hour blast through the waves(big). That was enough to sort RJ’s little used C rig – and the jib tack was sawed through by something. Very lucky not to dismast!! Then there were three.
The boats just flew. Race one was really fast – GH really superbly quick downwind – but the breeze continued to build. The guys came ashore for C2 discussions and quick rig resets. Then I notice JLR tightened up his main leech and definitely changed gear … improved pointing …… while GH seemed to go EVEN quicker. There were two spectacular ” an inch in it” kind of reaching finishes. Just brilliant to watch !!
Then the wind blew up even more (a lot more) and HM declared racing cancelled in favour of bacon rolls and tea. Job done – good day!
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