Salcombe Yacht Club Winter Series Race 1

 15 Solo sailors remembered the earlier Winter start time to line up into a gusty and shifty Southerly breeze.Tim Fells used his Aero 7 skills to drive out of the start line on the ebb tide, emerging alongside Tim Law at the Blackstone mark.

Those who headed for the Town shore on the downwind leg closed the gap on the Tims, with Chris Cleaves in the buffer zone chased down by David Greening and Graham Cranford-Smith.

Fells flew away on the downwind legs but two beats back across Widegates saw Law pull through, with Cleaves eventually powering past Fells.

Upon the return to the harbour fourth, Greening sailed out of wind off Snapes Point and with the anchorage becalmed Iain McGregor and Simon Dobson passed with the tide under them and caught onto the transom of a becalmed Tim Fells but he clung onto third with Dobson eventually overhauling McGregor to take fourth place.

Thank you to Simon Ballantine and the safety boat crews who were kept fairly busy all morning.