As forecast today’s weather came in stronger from the east to provide a different course for Series A and B with start lines on the Pilsey sands, weather marks laid in the Itchenor Channel south of Astra, and with a gybe mark on the winner bank. Prior to the first start the wind strengthened to force 5, pulling further south, but then settled to a solid force 4 easterly to provide excellent racing for all fleets and a classic CHRW day.
On Series A
in the Fast Handicap, it was a day for the Fireball of Simon Kings and Jono
Looe to excel and they took handicap honours but only by 9 seconds from the
Merlin Rocket of Simon and Jackie Lytton. The Merlin of Judith and Graham
Williamson came in 3rd on corrected time.
The Flying
15’s had their usual close racing with many place changes and it was Mark and
Anne-Marie Wood who eventually won the day.
In the
Hadron H2/DZero it was a superb day for Richard Leftley in his Hadron with a
commanding win. Simon Pettit rolled back the years with a good win in the
competitive Finn class, leaving him overnight leader ahead of David Hitchcock
on equal points.
The
stronger winds were much more to the liking of the RS800’s in the Fast
Asymmetric class with the first 4 places being taken by them. The winner of the
pack being Bryan and Anne Ormand. The RS400’s were again winners of the Slow
Asymmetric but this time it was Andy and Allyson Jeffries from Eastbourne
Sovereign SC taking the winning gun. However, it may have been different if the
59er had seen the green starboard round course flag and sailed the course
correctly!
There were
new names at the front of the RS200 fleet with Alan Roberts and Chris Witty
HISC, winning followed by Ian Martin and Lucy Preston. However Aiden Mitchell’s
consistency leaves him in second place tonight.
On SERIES B
It was impressive to see how quickly the 2000’s completed the larger course
today and the winners were Justin Smith and Jumbo Olphert followed by Paul and
Caroline Fisk. In the Medium Handicap one time CHRW Finn champion Neil Robinson
crewed by Alex Coles from Mengham Rythe SC won on corrected time in an RS
Vision. Tom Kennedy from Emsworth
Slipper won the Aero 7’s while the Aero 6’s were taken by Kevin Duce from
Burghfield.
Today’s
Aero5 winner was Iona Williams followed by Debbie Caldwell while yesterday’s
winner Carol Fiddaman came in 3rd. In the Solo’s local lad Alex
Butler HISC won a good race from Paul Lewis, although Paul leads the fleet
overnight. In both the ILCA4 and ILCA6 classes the winners were the same as day
one. the only classes for this to happen, with Ella Gardiner winning the ILCA4
and Thomas Knight taking the ILCA 6.
RS Feva XL
winners today were Richard Hewitt and Max Murphy from HISC.
Tomorrow
the forecast is for slightly less wind but again from the east, and starts will
be slightly later.
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