Roger’s Bowl 1
A brisk wind was coming straight down the Lake from slightly west of north. Robin Spiller’s Solo and Roger Heasman’s Bosun (Linda Spiller as crew) had small sails. John Dabbs and Leila Farmer had a reef in their Bosun’s mainsail. Linda Spiller had designed the course when she thought she was going to be OOD; it took in all the extremities of the Lake – Inlet, Far, West and Dam Green – and it took a good half hour to complete a lap even with plenty of propulsion. Getting to the top of the Lake required a lot of tacks; even getting to Inlet from the start line could involve eight or nine tacks and when you got to Inlet you found yourself near-becalmed because the buoy was so completely tucked into the lee of the hill.
John Dabbs timed his run to the start line perfectly and crossed at full speed. Rob Spiller was next but took a while to get going. Nonetheless he managed to round Inlet in front of the Dabbs/Farmer Bosun and was leading when he nearly forgot to go round Home 2 and did forget that the course went all the way to Far. The necessary extra water sailed meant the Bosun took the lead and kept it on the goose-winged run to West White. It was only at the beginning of the second lap, tacking to Inlet again, that Rob Spiller could retake the lead but he had a further setback – the tiller extension parting ways with the tiller – and was overtaken before Far only to recontest the lead until the shortened race was over. However it was the Dabbs/Farmer Bosun which crossed the finish line first after a little over an hour.
- John Dabbs and Leila Farmer (Bosun)
- Robin Spiller(Solo)
- Roger Heasman and Linda Spiller (Bosun)
The second race, Egg Cup 4, was not run.
Adam Hilton was Officer of the Day.