Race report 29 October 2022

November 1, 2022Guest User

From our PRO Nick Pellow:

We had a strong turnout for heats 7&8 of the Spring Pointscore. The wind was a shifty westerly varying from gusts of 20+knots down to near 0 during the end of race 7.
Each of the races had a different favoured tack to the top mark - indicating just how variable and long lasting some of the shifts were. There were some large lead changes in both fleets as the wind died and some boats were either out of wind, or in the outgoing tide, or both.
The Standards saw Daniel Costandi win race 7 and Commodore London take home the chocolates for Race 8.
Whilst in the Radials, Ian Tudball won race 7 with Murray Stone winning race 8.
Thanks to COTD, Yves Stening supported by Ben Byford for laying a decent course given the tricky conditions. At one point they even ferried the PRO to the top mark anticipating a shortened course scenario - only to be surprised by a fresh line of breeze coming from the North West.
Aboard the Jazzman was Nick Pellow, supported by David Airey for LTRAR - and special guest Charlie who is visiting from London and a huge supporter of Campbell Patton.

Thank you also to the off-water team in the Canteen, Paul, and Shirley, assisted by Campbell Patton and Dean Kurz.

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