Eleven teams found weather windows to drive to Budworth SC in Cheshire for the RYA/BUSA Women's Team Racing Nationals - and were rewarded with a weekend of great sailing.
Saturday saw a true Manchester style of weather conditions from light winds to big gusts - sun, rain and just a little snow. The expected high winds from Storm Eunice held off and the races were sailed in full rig Fireflies with the round robin completed on the Saturday and the Gold/Silver leagues started.
With a wet and windy forecast for Sunday, race officer Eilidh Millar sensibly called a late finish on Saturday and an early start Sunday. With another named storm, Franklin, now on its way, the first race started in cut downs at 8am but the winds continued to build over the morning until a big gust tracking down the course blew over five boats across the two fleets.
The race committee brought all the boats ashore to wait for a break in the wind. Unfortunately, this did not emerge and it was not felt safe to send the sailors back out so the results thus far and from the completed first Gold League round robin were used to announce a winner.
A full breakdown of results from the event can be found at http://events.ksail.co.uk/2022/RYAWomens/
Next up on the national team racing calendar is the RYA National Team Racing Championship for the Prince Philip Trophy, 26-27 March 2022, at West Kirby SC. Teams are invited to find out more and register their interest for an invitation at https://www.wksc.org.uk/uktra-2022/ by 23.59 on Saturday 27 February 2022.
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