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HHYC The Giverny Typhoon Series Race 4

by Guy Nowell on 27 Jun 2005
Jelik, scratch boat for the fleet Guy Nowell http://www.guynowell.com
Sunday was a great sailing day in Hong Kong, and very much appreciated by all the competitors in the Hebe Haven Yacht Club Typhoon Series, Race 4.

After the torrential and unremitting rain of the last couple of weeks, the skies cleared and fluffy white clouds appeared. 53 starters were on the water for five divisions, and all the starts went away in 15+ knots of breeze from the south.

Race Officer Gault Rice set an islands course of 26 nm around Table, Steep, Bluff and the Ninepins which was to the liking of pretty much everyone (except perhaps some of the sportsboats crews who felt that more than four hours in a trapeze harness was a good deal too much!

Throughout the race the weather provided interesting challenges in the shape of windshifts generated by the occasional rain squall wandering across the course, and at some point of the day every boat must have experienced strong breeze, lulls, hot sunshine and white-water downpours.

Scratch boat for the fleet, the Reichel-Pugh 75 Jelik, was home in a shade under three hours while the last boat on the water spent a shade over six hours racing.

Results

IRC A

1 Mandrake

2 Jelik

3 Outrageous

IRC B

1 Dexter

2 Relax

3 Getafix

IRC C

1 Ling Yuan

2 Impala 1

3 French Kiss

Sportsboats

1 Wanchai Belle

2 Merlin

3 Sidewinder

HKPN

1 Lover

2 Vector

3 Between the Sheets
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