It was a cracking day at the Club today – very Westerly, B Rigs… often top end!! I was in three layers and still had to go and get a jacket on!! We had a terrific fleet of six Marbleheads with a seriously intense level of competition. Five of the fleet were F6s and Graham B was our guest of honour!!

We shall have full results in due course from HM, but it’s fair to report that there were some cracking races in the ten race programme. In terms of sheer speed, in the often wavy conditions, the Commodore’s F6 was totally on fire – around half the races won, and at least two of them were runaways! We shall see how the points turn out though as Nigel B’s F6 was fabulously consistent as well as fast. Hugh M sailed a couple of proper fire-crackers too. The starts were an interesting call in the westerly and generally the game played out close up along the wall for us all to see. Graham H made several superbly good starts, and racing was altogether pretty close. Often the lee end of the line along the wind curve of the wall was surprisingly quick – and Phil H split from the fleet out in the bay using this routing pretty often in his excellent morning.