One-design Tuesday and Keelboat Wednesday

Due to low tides the racing fleets of Tuesday and Wednesday were combined in Friday night which resulted in 31 boats racing and five starts using the Tuesday Night course cards. The wind was a light easterly at 8 knots during the start but this dropped to 5-6 knots later though the wind stayed generally from that direction, as measured on North Star.  

All boats were impeccably behaved with nobody OCS and North Star escaped although there was some spirited sailing during the White Sail start.

The gentle wind and flat sea made for good and careful sailing but we lost both Mark Ribs for a while as they attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to assist a Squib that went hard aground on back end of the falling tide. Similar to the rising tide - the falling tide awaits no person either.

As the winds were light a small number of boats abandoned racing but all others finished within the time. As the golden sun set the Race Committee, its Ribs and the last Puppeteer were treated to a friendly visit by a pod of about five dolphins, calling to each other as we left the finishing area close to the Island Mark.

My thanks to the Race Committee and all sailors for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.  

Report by RO Paddy Judge

FULL RESULTS HERE

Photos by Karolina Kernan - view more here.

Thursday Dinghy

The first dinghy club racing kicked off on Thursday evening on 7th May. We had ten boats at the start line: four ILCAs, two IDRAs, and one of each: RS Aero 6, RS 600, Melges 15 and Fireball. Despite light winds the fleet completed 2 races.

FULL RESULTS HERE