B14 National Championships - Day 2
by Stephen Barton on 30 Dec 2016
Yellow Bone Richard Reynolds
If you saw my Day 1 report from yesterday about us swinging around madly on a 36' Farr keel yacht in the rather ocean exposed waters of Eden's Twofold Bay with the maddening flies and 180 degree windshifts while trying to run the B14 Nationals you might understand that it had been such good entertainment on the committee boat and support boats that we just had to have another go today just to make sure it was real and not a weird dream.
I can report that it was definitely real because we had more similar and amazing conditions today. Flies, heat, and 90 degree windshifts with wind strengths ranging from less than five knots to over 20 at times meant the crews of these lively and lovely B14 skiffs were tested to the max.
Three races were run today under some spectacularly threatening stormy skies and despite the stubbornness of your faithful RO persisting with some, ahem, interesting courses due to big windshifts it looks like the cream of the fleet is floating to the top.
And talking about floating, a couple of the boats weren't really and so they had to head to shore to sort out some buoyancy issues.
At the pointy end it's dead even between Guy Bancroft and Jason Walker sailing in Bonus and Richie Reynolds and Lissa McMillan sailing in The Nude. At this stage David and Ian Cunningham in Bonework are the best of the rest.
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