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The 3rd race of the series took place in rather mild conditions for the time of year, but again was well attended.
After consultation with the race committee, it was decided to race on the ’Round the Islands’ course as most of the race boats found it more fun … an odd decision but there you go!
A strong start, as usual, from Kerstin and Åke saw ’Ardanza’ take an early lead closely followed by ’Yesterday’, ’Stars and Stripes’, ’Tricky’, and ’Mercy’, with Jörgen and Marina on ’Rainbow’ trailing the fleet.
’Stars and Stripes’ had some chart problems as they came up the channel to the first mark, but not as badly as our friends on ’Windsong’ who are on their way to Thailand!! ’Stars and Stripes’, along with ’Tricky’ held the fleet at bay as they overtook everyone to take a good lead and be in a good position to take the first turn.
It was neck and neck around the outside of the first island, between ’Stars and Stripes’ (Capt Tom Boelke) and ’Tricky’ (Ingela, Thomas and Anna).
’Mercy’, (Viveca and Bosse) made a wild decision to take the inside route around the first island and ended up losing their spinnaker, but this was not as bad as Jörgen and Marina on ’Rainbow’ who were stopped by the committee boat and given a warning for not wearing bouyancy aids, and who then got lost in a fog bank!! Not a good day so far for the ’Rainbow’ crew.
’Tricky’ pulled ahead after the first turn, closely followed by ’Ardanza’, with chaos affecting the rest of the fleet. ’Yesterday’ was forced to do a ’man overboard’ manouvre, whilst ’Stars and Stripes’ had to carry out a hasty change of direction and some very quick hole patching after striking a semi-submerged container!!
Rounding the second turn and the racing is so close, with all boats vying for the lead but only ’Tricky’ making the most of the ever changing wind shifts and bizarre tidal patterns as they head south west to the final turns.
’Tricky’ pulled comfortably ahead, with no competition to worry about as the rest of the fleet try to out-manouvre each other to get the best position for the downwind leg to the finish line. Some very close racing all the way to the finish line saw the following results :
3rd Race Results.
- ’Tricky’ Ingela, Thomas and Anna 6points
- ’Rainbow’ Jörgen and Marina 5points
- ’Ardanza’ Kerstin and Åke 4points
- ’Mercy’ Viveca and Bosse 3points
- ’Yesterday’ Jon and Ingela 2points
- ’Stars and Stripes’ Tom Boelke 1point
OVERALL STANDINGS.
- Ardanza 16points
- Mercy 13points
- Yesterday 8points
- Tricky 6points
- Stars and Stripes 5points
- Windsong 5points
- Rainbow 5points
- Charmaya 4points
Next race is Friday 24th february @19.00
The final race is a ’Round the World’ race so get your boats and crews ready!