A warm, westerly, 5-10mph wind, sun, white cloud and a fleet of six sonars, who’s complaining! The midges were fierce in the RNCYC car park though! We did some swopping around of boats to let Oscar sail a different Sonar and Hugh discovered that Prelude was in need of some serious TLC.
Oscar Andrews, Virginia Etchells, Max Dobie and Mrs Normand took Nona; Hugh Normand, Ian Nicolson, Michael Schmücker and Charles Sommerville Wood took Prelude; Linda Pender, Harald Halvorson, Josie Sclater and Jasmine Grieg were on Grouse and Stewart Gibb, Calum Underwood, Erik Halverson and Rowan Aitchison were on Arrow. The Lindsays in Charlotte and Craig MacDonald and Mark (aka Friday) sailing two up in Siglet also came out to play.
The course was from the Y start mark to D, north of Clynder in by the shore, and back to the start line twice round. Spinnakers were much in evidence and the crewing has definitely improved since the beginning of the season. At the start Nona took the shore end of the line, but was a bit late, Grouse, Siglet and Prelude were on time on the line, but the beat across was interesting; decisions about when and where to cross the loch and how close and how soon to go into the Clynder shore gave plenty of scope for position changes.
At the weather mark Siglet was in the lead followed by Grouse and Nona. On the spinnaker run Arrow fought past Nona and the final results were Siglet, Grouse, Arrow, Nona, Prelude and Charlotte. On Nona, Max did a great job trimming the spinnaker well all evening and Virginia, who trimmed the main and gybed the spinnaker, provided the amusement by ignoring all advice about the wake from police launches and burying herself in a large wave! It made up for losing third place… well nearly!
We all had another fun evening’s racing. Next week is the last school evening race and we will have an informal prize giving in the Clubhouse after racing.