Nineteen Merlin Rockets turned up on Saturday morning to be greeted by a strong wind with gusts up to 30kts, leading to a couple of sensible sailors remaining on land for the day. We set off to the race course, which only took a few seconds in that breeze and we were off. We were sharing the event with the RS600s who hurtled off for the first start and some swimming practise!
The race officer set a trapezoid course, the same shape to be used for all six races, with very short reaching legs as we didn't expect to hoist our kites until the run. There was also the decision to run short and snappy two lap races around 30 minutes in order to get both fleets racing nice and quickly. The strong wind against a fairly strong tide set the tone for an exciting day's racing.
All the starts and first beats were tight, so the first run was key to a good result and there were nice gains to be made from staying upright.
Overall, Tom & Rachael took home another win, followed by a strong performance by Tim & Mary in second and James & Anna rounding out the podium in third place, also winning the gold fleet.
The silver fleet was won by Duncan Salmon and Ruth Hanstater, who scored an impressive fifth in the third race on Saturday, and the bronze fleet was won by Jon Steward and Blake Newman, who came tenth overall.
Thanks to Stone Sailing Club for hosting us and entertaining us all evening. Well done to the race team for smashing through six great races, the safety boats for zipping all over the place, and the galley team for putting on such a spread!
Next up on the Silver Tiller circuit will be Itchenor Sailing Club in two weeks' time, on the 15th and 16th October.
Overall Results:
Pos Fleet Sail No Helm Crew Club R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Pts
1st Platinum 3759 Thomas Gillard Rach Gray Staunton Harold SC 2 1 2 1 ‑3 1 7
2nd Platinum 3807 Tim Saxton Mary Henderson Itchenor SC / Brightlingsea SC 1 3 1 4 2 ‑5 11
3rd Gold 3746 James Wells Anna Aylward RYA ‑6 6 4 5 1 3 19
4th Platinum 3803 Caroline Croft Faye Chatterton Lymington Town Sailing Club 3 2 8 2 5 ‑9 20
5th Gold 3796 William Warren Sophie Mackley Shoreham SC 5 7 3 ‑8 7 4 26
6th Gold 3799 Paul Rayson Christian Hill Fishers Green / Salcombe YC 4 ‑12 7 10 8 2 31
7th Platinum 3713 Chris Gould Megan Pascoe Lymington Town Sailing Club ‑12 4 9 6 6 12 37
8th Silver 3702 Duncan Salmon Ruth Hanstater Wembley Sailing Club 7 10 5 9 9 ‑11 40
9th Silver 3745 Paul Dean Hannah Burt Wembley 8 8 6 ‑15 12 10 44
10th Bronze 3770 Jon Steward Blake Newman Fishers Green SC 10 9 10 7 14 ‑17 50
11th Gold 3775 Fran Gifford Pete Nicholson Brightlingsea (DNS) DNS DNS 3 4 6 53
12th Gold 3804 Peter Gray Rob Allen Staunton Harold/ Salcombe YC (DNS) 5 DNF 12 10 12
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