Wednesday 2nd September 2020 Race Report

Covid 19 Wednesday Race 5

Bob Sampson’s Topper was first round the first buoy, Dam Green. (Yes, Bob was sailing a Club Topper. He said he wanted a change. He got one; he rigged the kicker wrongly and spent the race using main force to get the boom where he wanted it.) Adam Hilton’s red Bosun, a rarely sighted Paul Petvin crewing, had been first over the start line but was well downwind and already behind the other, Heasman/Wills, white Bosun by the time they rounded the first buoy. The battle wasn’t over however. The red Bosun led the white one on a couple of brief occasions during the race but Roger Heasman had got the gap to nearly a minute by the end. The wind at the start was south-westerly, fitful, not strong at all. It strengthened considerable during the race; those elegant lightweights, Heasman and Wills, had some trouble keeping the Bosun the right way up. The Spillers had left home in a howling wind and therefore with small sails for both the Laser and the Streaker. It took them some time to assert themselves, but Linda Spiller was up to second by the end of lap 1 and she led at the end of lap 2. Robin was second at the end of lap 2, leaving Bob Sampson at third on the water at the end of the race. The Topper’s marvellous handicap gave him the victory.

UTLSC PNs

Rank HelmName CrewName Class Rating Elapsed Corrected Points
1 Bob Sampson TOPPER 1334 0:55:23 0:41:31 1.0
2 Linda Spiller LASER 4.7 1190 0:50:58 0:42:50 2.0
3 Robin Spiller STREAKER WAVE 1217 0:54:58 0:45:10 3.0
4 Roger Heasman Sally Wills BOSUN 1234 0:55:46 0:45:12 4.0
5 Adam Hilton Paul Petvin BOSUN 1234 0:56:31 0:45:48 5.0

 

Personal PNs

Rank HelmName CrewName Class Rating Elapsed Corrected Points
1 Bob Sampson TOPPER 1334 0:55:23 0:41:31 1.0
2 Linda Spiller LASER 4.7 1189 0:50:58 0:42:52 2.0
3 Adam Hilton Paul Petvin BOSUN 1310 0:56:31 0:43:09 3.0
4 Roger Heasman Sally Wills BOSUN 1280 0:55:46 0:43:34 4.0
5 Robin Spiller STREAKER WAVE 1217 0:54:58 0:45:10 5.0

Many thanks to Geoff Floyd who ran the race and to John Dabbs who took the photographs.