The last weekend of November was a busy one for Liverpool Yacht Club. It was the penultimate races for our Ladies and Autumn Series.
Saturday was the Ladies race; meaning the helm and main sheet trimmers needed to be female to qualify. The forecast was ominous with a force 4 wind gusting to 7 and a spring tide running at four knots. Fortunately, the upper Mersey is protected from the sea and at high tide and provides a racing area four miles long and up to 1.5 miles wide; so, it was race on. Three boats entered with the Race Officer setting a ten mile windward/leeward course.
After over 1.5 hours of racing, including a broach or two, the first two boats finished one second apart on corrected time which was impressively close. The results were as follows:
Pos Boat Name Helm Main sheet
1 LA REPUBLIC Laura Fitzgerald Helen Skipworth
2 SHAULA Kelly Swinhow Andrea Phillips
3 JONDO Susie Quinn Carol Dolan
For Sunday's Autumn Series race it was a light force 2 but with occasion gusts up to 4 at the start of the race. There were 10 boats on the water with over 50 LYC sailors onboard. It was another windward/leeward course but mainly in the Garston channel, where the sailors had to use their knowledge of the tide to make gains while keeping a lookout for favourable gusts.
Sunday's results:
Pos Boat Type Helm
IRC Class 1
1 EAZITIGER Corby 29 Adam Kyffin
2 BOJANGLES J109 Paul Hampson
3 MAXTOO Prima 38 Neil Thomas
4 LA REPUBLIC A31 Richard Mann
5 SHAULA Sunfast 37 Simon Windle
6 RUN First 35 Mal Hartland
IRC Class 2
1 SKUKUSA Impala Stuart Lofthouse
2 JONDO Sigma 33 John Myerscough
Venture (NHC)
1 WILD WOOD GibSea 760 Max Blackwell
2 LADY DOROTHY Horizon 30 Jeffrey Nelson
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