The Roundup of the weekend



Roundup for Weekend Starting 23rd September The unusual wind the greeted everyone arriving on Saturday stayed with us all weekend. It did however allow for some fun sailing on the Saturday, with some nice gusts and interesting shift making for some interesting and fun sailing for everyone that ventured out. It was the Commodores Cup on Sunday, meaning an 11 O’clock start. The 1st race started in winds just as strange as the previous days, except a lot lighter, flukier and generally nastier. This made for some very potluck racing, and with almost half the fleet getting a chance in the lead. Charles & Ross got the luck when needed – at the finish and so took first. Chris & Martin were almost as lucky with a close second, followed by Graeme & Katie. The 2nd race was much the same, but with slightly lighter winds and nastier calm patches into which boats could sail and not come out again for hours! Despite this, Graeme & Kate kept up a lead for most of the race, and managed to keep it to the end. Dave & Shona also sailed a good race, and were hot on Graeme & Katie’s transom for the whole race – gaining them a comfortable 2nd. Ian Henry, the race officer set a long course that involved a loop at the top of the loch to try and get the marginally better wind for the 3rd race. It worked and once you were past March Wood, there was a nice, almost steady F3 blowing. In this Charles & Ross and Graeme & Katie pulled away from the fleet and had a good battle for the lead with many place changes and covering. While the two leaders were preoccupied, the rest of the fleet - helped along by a slackening wind at the clubhouse end – caught up with the leaders. This dying wind resulted in some more tense pot luck racing but Graeme & Katie and Charles & Ross just hung on to the 1st places but with Graeme & Katie emerging as the victor after escaping March Wood quicker than everyone else. With two 1st’s Graeme & Katie secured the cup, whilst the newly founded "Commodores Match Racing Cup for Mirrors" (due to only 2 mirrors turning up) was taken by Ian Brown & Margaret Fox, very closely followed by Alison Morrish & Fiona Foulkes.

Roundup for Weekend Starting 23rd September

The unusual wind the greeted everyone arriving on Saturday stayed with us all weekend. It did however allow for some fun sailing on the Saturday, with some nice gusts and interesting shift making for some interesting and fun sailing for everyone that ventured out.

It was the Commodores Cup on Sunday, meaning an 11 O’clock start. The 1st race started in winds just as strange as the previous days, except a lot lighter, flukier and generally nastier. This made for some very potluck racing, and with almost half the fleet getting a chance in the lead. Charles & Ross got the luck when needed – at the finish and so took first. Chris & Martin were almost as lucky with a close second, followed by Graeme & Katie.

The 2nd race was much the same, but with slightly lighter winds and nastier calm patches into which boats could sail and not come out again for hours! Despite this, Graeme & Kate kept up a lead for most of the race, and managed to keep it to the end. Dave & Shona also sailed a good race, and were hot on Graeme & Katie’s transom for the whole race – gaining them a comfortable 2nd.

Ian Henry, the race officer set a long course that involved a loop at the top of the loch to try and get the marginally better wind for the 3rd race. It worked and once you were past March Wood, there was a nice, almost steady F3 blowing. In this Charles & Ross and Graeme & Katie pulled away from the fleet and had a good battle for the lead with many place changes and covering. While the two leaders were preoccupied, the rest of the fleet - helped along by a slackening wind at the clubhouse end – caught up with the leaders. This dying wind resulted in some more tense pot luck racing but Graeme & Katie and Charles & Ross just hung on to the 1st places but with Graeme & Katie emerging as the victor after escaping March Wood quicker than everyone else.

With two 1st’s Graeme & Katie secured the cup, whilst the newly founded "Commodores Match Racing Cup for Mirrors" (due to only 2 mirrors turning up) was taken by Ian Brown & Margaret Fox, very closely followed by Alison Morrish & Fiona Foulkes.