Monday 18th July

A beautiful summer's evening, at last!!! with just enough of a SE breeze to allow for a windward / leeward course with North Channel no. 2 being the windward mark and Stakes Race mark the leeward.

"Let's be maverick" we all agreed on Vinyl Solutions. "Everyone else will head over to the Brownsea shallows and beat up against the strengthening incoming tide. So let's try the North Channel and approach No2 buoy on starboard tack" So the idea was to short tack along the harbour's north shore up to Saltern's and then near Evening Hill. What we didn't allow for was that EVERYONE else had the same idea!!! so it all got rather congested.

Topper sailor Oscar volunteered to perform these tricky tacking manoeuvres and it wasn't his fault that we spend a few minutes prising a mooring buoy from around our rudder !! Needless to say we now trailed the fleet. All we could see was blue spinnakers starting the run so who was who ? Who knows ?

Madeleine, on the wrong side of the start line for the Race Officers' liking, and 5th around the windward mark, gybed into the main channel the quickest and found themselves heading the fleet by the finish. Jobs for the Buoys achieved their best result of the series, coming 2nd, keeping Jolly Roger viewing their transom.

Crackerjack move up into 4th place in the series. 

     

		6th June	13th June	20th June	27th June	4th July	11th July	18th July	Points
4270	Jolly Roger	a	2	1	1	2	1	3	10
4265	Madeleine	b	1	2	RET 9	7	2	1	22
4263	Jobs for the Buoys	a	8	5	3	4	7	2	29
4074	Crackerjack	n	7	DNC 12	2	5	4	4	34
4235	Wijit	d	3	4	DNC 12	3	6	6	34
4242	Pheonix	o	4	DNC 12	RTD 9	1	3	7	36
4239	Zaphod	n	5	7	4	6	9	8	39
4266	Flying Colours	e	6	3	DNC 12	DNC 12	5	5	43
5467	XP Rigging	d	10	6	5	8	8	9	46
4067	Vinyl Solutions		9	DNF 9	7	9	DNC 12	10	56
4204	Easy Tiger		DNC 12	DNC 12	6	DNF 11	10	DNC 12	63

William Lack 

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