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Kestrel National Championships at Stone Sailing Club - Day 3

by John Glasspool 2 Aug 2013 07:57 PDT 25-28 July 2013
Kestrels lined up at Stone during the nationals © John Glasspool

Racing did not take place on Friday 26th as there was little or no wind, so Saturday was scheduled for three races.

After a wait for the wind, race four started in a light east north east breeze with just enough strength to stem the incoming tide, the fleet split right and left with neither side of the course appeared to be the dominant one.

For a time many boats found themselves tacking back and forth with little or no progress, however Kestrel 1610 Stewart and Mhairi Murdoch from the Royal Tay YC, managed to scrape around the windward mark and left the rest of the fleet struggling to make any headway against a strengthening tide, 1559 Ian Hunter and Trevor MacDonald from Royal Tay YC. along with 1545 Steve and Lin Worf from Calshot SC were the next 2 boats to get around the mark, but with a hopeless task of trying to catch the runaway Murdochs who were by now nearing the end of their first lap.

Fortunately the breeze started to increase enabling 1537 John and Olive Glasspool, 1551 Liam Pike and Alistair Luxford to be the next around the windward mark, a game of catchup with many place changes throughout the fleet followed, but with no-one able to make any impression on the leaders who were by now almost lapping the back of the fleet.

Race 4 Results:

1st 1610 Stewart and Mhairi
2nd 1545 Steve and Lin
3rd 1537 John and Olive
4th 1551 Liam and Alistair
5th 1559 Ian and Trevor
6th 1627 Henry and Chris Richards
7th 1574 Graham Hoy and Tony King
8th 1601 Alasdair Hood and Campbell Morrison
9th 408 Chris Grice and Paul Wilkinson
10th 1615 Malcolm and Danielle Worsley
11th 1612 Nick and Jo Whiteley
12th 1510 Jeremy and Jane Drummond
13th 1553 Ian Rintoul and Richard Anthony
14th 1605 William Green and Claire Lambert
15th 1544 Kevin Edwins and Kevin Jones
16th 1573 Rod and Jenny Brown-Lee

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