Notes received from Steve
Kestin, sailing on Jetta
Simon set nice windward leeward course in force 3/4 southerly, dropping
to force 3 at the end. largely sunny.
Course: Start -Rosemullion -Nare -Rosemulluon -Nare -Committee -Shag
-Dennis all to starboard. There was a running start to Rosemullion.
Gotcha did some nice broaches when passing Shag, Jacobie started to
pull away when she got clear air. The rounding order was something like
Jacobie, Jetta, Gotcha, Jabadao, Orijin (Andy Dennis), jinji. On the
beat to Nare, Gotcha took the right hand side of the beat (i.e. sailed
up the river rather than out to sea and pulled ahead of Jetta at Nare.
From then on the order and the distance between the boats stayed more
or less the same, with Jetta fighting hard to stay ahead of Jabadeo
and Orijin, due to her very dirty bottom. Succeeded mainly due to some
good crew work, fast spinnaker hoists and timely drops, good clean tacks.
Jabadeo was noticeably faster to windward but not as slick on sail handling.
Orijin just seemed to be slow. Deep run from Nare back to Rosemullion
favoured the traditional spinnaker boats. On the beat back to Nare,
everybody took the right hand side of the beat, and so order stayed
the same. During the Reach to Committee there was some luffing - Jabadeo
trying to keep Orijin clear. After rounding committe, the spinnakers
wre popped for short reach to Shag Then followed a short beat to Dennis
when fluky winds almost allowed Jetta to catch Gotcha, and Jabadeo to
catch Jetta. The race clearly showed up those boats in need of a scrub.
Report from Tony Statham, skipper of
Jacobi
The first race of the Summer Series was overseen by Race
Officer Simon Kearsley who set a course out in the bay in a brisk force
4 + southerly. The crowded running start saw Jacobi just squeeze in
at the committee boat end as the fleet headed out to sea under spinnaker.
Several broaches were seen as the reach tightened up to clear August
Rock buoy, the most spectacular of which was Gotcha ( Corby 29) who
exposed her somewhat dirty undersides to the those watching.
Two windward - leeward legs followed from Rosemullion to Nare, with
Gotcha playing catch-up and pulling through the J92s by taking an early
starboard tack into the river. Andy Dennis's new J 105 looked good,
sporting a very large pink spinnaker, but was under-powered on the beats
with only a No 4 headsail.
Jabadeo ( J92) proved that there is only one way up for an asymmetric
spinnaker. Wally Royall was later heard to blame the upside - down launch
on a rough trip back from last week-end's L'Aber Wrac'h race.
The last three legs from Nare into the river, saw Jacobi pull away from
the rest of the fleet to secure a comfortable win from Gotcha , driven
by Chris Broad (late of the legendary Helford boat, Magic Bus), and
Jabadeo in third. Kudu took the P Y class.
