2011 Sunday Early Points Series: Race Report Race 4 (March 20th 2011)
Written by Nigel Walbank Monday, 21 March 2011 00:00
while Richard Russell also takes the Medium Fleet win again.
The Wind was SW force 2, at the time of the start the tide was just changing to the ebb. This caught both the RS 400 of John Cooper and Becci Wigley and the International 14 of Peter Conway and Ginny Harvey out, pushing them over the line early, and both had to turn back to start correctly. Even so, having a long run into the tide, saw them leading the fast fleet on the water, half way through the first lap.
In the medium fleet of 17 boats, 5 were premature starters of which only the Tasers of Toby and Tim Power and Steve and Harry Boyd retuned to start correctly. Again the run against the tide was favouring the asymmetric dinghies and a very close race went on between the RS 100s of Richard Russell and Dave Gorringe who had just launched his new boat the day before. After the first lap they were still ducking each others transoms as they tacked up the beat.
With the wind remaining light and an ever increasing ebb tide both fleets were shortened to two laps. With the Int 14 pulling out with trapeze problems, John Cooper and Becci Wigley enjoyed an easy victory in the fast fleet from Keith and Julie Willis in an Osprey followed by Rebecca & Justin Hannam in their RS 500. Whilst in the medium fleet the RS 100s took both the line honours and the handicap win with Richard Russell 1st & David Gorringe 2nd, the asymmetric sailed Stratos of Mike Beggs and Vicki Lean came in 3rd.
Overall Results after the 4th race in the series
Fast Fleet
John Cooper & Becci Wigley RS 400 1st 4pts
Geoff Havers & Jo Barriball 29er 2nd 6pts
David Gautier Contender 3rd 20pts
Medium Fleet
Richard Russell RS 100 1st 5pts
Tony Christopher & John Sims Wayfarer 2nd 10.5pts
Nick Fagan Blaze 3rd 11pts
