17th October 2021 Race Reports

by Adam Hilton

 

Mandy Pollard

Frostbite 4

Nathan Pollard’s full-sailed Laser dominated the day’s racing. The very light winds from varying points in the south west dictated a start from the Home 2 line, which is always tricky for helms to know if it has been crossed or not. The Pollard Laser did not cross first – Adam Hilton’s Solo led – and it was not until they had sailed up to Dam Green and were back nearly rounding West that it slipped past. After that the lead never changed, Pollard finishing a minute in front of Linda Spiller in another full-sailed Laser who had had a lot of overtaking to do, taking the Solo on the third lap. However before that Linda, one of those lost in the featureless waters of the Home 2 start line, had had to sail past Jane Anderson’s Laser Radial and Paul Anderson’s fast-starting Laser Full. Brian Pollard, with a rare and treasured species, John Weller, as crew, started fourth, the lead Bosun, but got stuck at Dam Green and let the John Dabbs sister dinghy, Penny Abbott crewing, take over.

  1. Adam Hilton (Solo)
  2. Nathan Pollard (Laser Full)
  3. Linda Spiller (Laser Full)
  4. Jane Anderson (Laser Radial)
  5. John Dabbs and Penny Abbott (Bosun)
  6. Paul Anderson (Laser Full)
  7. Brian Pollard and John Weller (Bosun)

 

Icicle 4

The wind had moved further west making use of the more familiar and welcome Home 1 line possible. Nonetheless an over-eager Commodore caused a general recall and it was Jane Anderson who got away first at the second start with both Bosuns well up. Nathan Pollard soon took over the lead although he had to fight his way past Paul Anderson first. Linda Spiller, with the other big-sailed Laser, also overtook Paul Anderson but on the second lap. Jane Anderson, in her Laser Radial with its smaller sail, had a race long contest with Adam Hilton’s Solo; the vagaries of the very gentle winds often dictating who led. Brian Pollard’s Bosun spent most of the race in front of John Dabbs’s but was behind at the end when the wind disappeared leaving him inching home nearly half an hour after the winner, his son, crossed the line.

  1. Nathan Pollard (Laser Full)
  2. Linda Spiller (Laser Full)
  3. Adam Hilton (Solo)
  4. Jane Anderson (Laser Radial)
  5. John Dabbs and Penny Abbott (Bosun)
  6. Paul Anderson (Laser Full)
  7. Brian Pollard and John Weller (Bosun)

Grateful thanks were given to Robin Spiller for running the races, to Bob Sampson for manning the safety boat and to Mandy Pollard for taking the photographs.