Salcombe Yacht Club Summer Series Race 6 After the Summer holiday recess it was back to business as usual for the Salcombe Yacht Club Summer Series, the racing was held on the top of a neap tide in a force 3 Northerly breeze which flicked to North West. Race officers Dan and Gail Bridger set a course to Gerston and back to 0, set in the Range, followed by a loop of the harbour. In the Slow Handicap race, Tom Morris finished clear ahead of the Laser Radials of Torrin Blazeby and Sam Lloyd setting them up for a last race of the series showdown next weekend. In the Fast Handicap Peter Cook and Janet Exelby were once again able to get away from a trio of Merlin Rockets and finished in first place on elapsed and corrected time. The Ballantine family retained their place at the front of the National 12 fleet, this week in the shape of mum and dad Simon and Karen rather than Peter, who has dominated the class this season, they finished second from the Lloyds who were in third place. Once again the Solos were the most numerous, with 22 starters. Paul Ellis sailing the Boatyard at Beer works boat was an early front runner, however a Paul mistook the Fast Handicap shorten course for the Solo’s, which allowed Chris Cleaves to take first place, with Paul finishing in second place equal with Simon Dobson. Bill Jago and Peter Hammond took fourth and fifth places. Seven Salcombe Yawls came to the line, with “Spruce Goose” emerging from the Bag in first place, with Jon and Clare Lewis in “L’Eagle” crossing tacks with Geof Gilson and Chris Spencer-Chapman in “Guillemot” all the way to Gerston. On returning to the harbour, Gilson and Alistair Morley, helming “Great Bustard” ate up “Spruce Goose’” substantial lead by finding more wind on the Portlemouth shore, which meant that Greening and Galvin had to work back past Gilson and Morley to regain and finish in first place. Jon and Clare Lewis were first of the Classic Yawls. Slow Handicap 1st Laser Radial 154646Tom Morris 2nd Laser Radial 161391Torrin Blazeby 3rd Laser Radial 176294Sam Lloyd Fast Handicap 1st Merlin Rocket 3616Peter Cook and Janet Exelby 2nd National 12 3431Simon and Karen Ballantine 3rd National 12 3534Charlie and Helen Lloyd Solo 1st Solo 5295Chris Cleaves 2nd= Solo 5424Paul Ellis 2nd= Solo 5313Simon Dobson 4rd Solo 5316Bill Jago Salcombe Yawl Red Fleet 1st Salcombe Yawl 177 David Greening and Stephen Galvin 2nd Salcombe Yawl 189 Alistair Morley and Charles Thompson 3rd Salcombe Yawl 170 Geof Gilson and Chris Spencer-Chapman Salcombe Yawl Blue Fleet 1st Salcombe Yawl 150Jon and Clare Lewis 2nd Salcombe Yawl 97Andrew Wood and Bobbie Galvin 3rd Salcombe Yawl 108David Edmonds and John Berry A Cruiser Race was held in the Range on Sunday morning in a Westerly force 2 to 3 breezes, the X-362 “Xotic” of Ian and Wendy Stewart took first place from Graham and Meredith Parker’s Mystery 35 “Bluebird” with the YW42 “Firefly” of Paul and Susie Ellis in third place. There was also a Hawk Open meeting running throughout the weekend, Dan and Tris Sheehan were victorious.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:10:04 +0000
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