Streaker Ramblings - Freeman Iceberg Races 3 & 4 - 13/11/2016

Yet again a mismatch between the forecasts – 14 – 16 knots – and the reality as we left Hove this morning. Barely a breeze in evidence and little more as we arrived at Piddinghoe, it was sunny and warmer than last Sunday – no Ice in the boats or covers. The breeze was from the North (the direction of the Fisherman’s Bay) thus Laurence Venus, RO for the day, set the course as shown below. The start was from a line through the south west corner mark to a Pink mark further east along the southern shore. The latter mark was not used after the starts and the Island had no required side on the third and fourth legs. It being Remembrance Sunday racing did not start until after the minutes Silence and time to get afloat at 11.15 am.

 

 

.At the start of Race 3 (first of the day) Chris Turner (Laser Radial) was first across the line with Rupert Smith (Streaker) a touch higher than Alan Simmons (Streaker) but a trifle behind and fourth placed Jo West (Laser Radial). Ed Thorburn (Finn) attempted a port tack start at the inshore end of the line but had to pass astern of the front pair. Rupert and Jo then tacked off quickly onto port and Ed slipped through the gap.

Behind the front bunch Tiger Cox (Topper) led a group off the middle of the line with Zoe McCaig (Laser Radial) below him and Ian Johnson (Laser full rig) by the inner mark. Off on port tack were Dave Murley (Laser Radial), Michael Veale and Mike Rosier (RS200) and Bill Giles (Solution). Due to the extra speed of the Finn, Ed soon passed Rupert and rounded the Windward mark in front of the fleet. Alan was next to round followed by Rupert close behind and then Chris a little further astern. The following run saw no place changes at the front with Alan first to harden up for the second beat in the lap and after rounding the mark in the middle of the east shore set off on the second run of the lap. The final leg was a close reach along the southern shore and Alan managed to hold off spirited challenge by Rupert.

So positons at the end of the first lap were Ed 1^st - 45 seconds ahead of Alan 2^nd - Rupert 3^rd, Chris 4^th, Jo 5^th and Michael 6^th. Julian Dobson (Laser full rig) was 7^th, Andy Richlinski (Laser full rig) 8^th  Zoe 9^th, Dave 10^th, Bill.G 11^th and Geoff Sheridan (Byte original rig) 12^th. Penelope Duncan (Laser Radial) was 13^th, Ian 14^th, Richard Beal (Laser Radial) 15^th Tiger 16^th, Colin Cryer (Laser full rig) 17^th and Jazz Sayed (Sailboard) 18^th.

Lap 2 and Ed was still in front but now 39 seconds ahead. The fight for second place got tighter, so tight that Alan and Rupert crossed the line with identical times recorded. Next were Chris and Jo whilst behind them Julian passed Michael to lie 6^th. Bill.G passed Dave to go 10^th and Geoff crashed back to 15^th behind Dave, Penelope, Ian and Richard and Colin passed Tiger as Jazz brought up the rear.

Lap 3 Rupert began to pull away from Alan and crossed the line 20 seconds ahead.  Alan’s, kicker attachment on the boom started to slide forwards towards the mast and he could do nothing to stop it, thus he lost sail control to a large degree.  Ed in the Finn was still in front and back to 40 seconds ahead of Rupert. Behind Alan 3^rd, Chris and Julian were next across the line with Andy now 6^th, having overtaken Julian and Michael with Zoe and then Bill.G behind them. Colin gained five places to lie 11^th in front of Dave, Penelope, Ian and Geoff as Richard dropped back to 16^th ahead of Tiger and Jazz.

Lap 4 and Ed was now forty six seconds ahead of Rupert who in turn was 60 second ahead of Alan.   Chris was still 4^th followed by Julian and Michael. Colin climbed  another  three places to lie 8^th whilst Jo dropped back  9^th. Bill.G overtook Zoe to hold 10^th place and Ian passed Penelope to lie 13^th. Richard pulled back a place to lie ahead of Geoff and Tiger.

Lap 5 no place changes in the three leaders but the duels for thrust place led to Chris, Andy and Michael all crossing the line on the same recorded time, Julian having been passed by Michael on the way. Jo went back to lie 8^th ahead of Bill.G with Zoe next, then Dave as Ian dropped back to lie 15^th with Geoff last to cross (and finish) 16th.

Lap 6, the final lap, with a reduced fleet saw Ed finish first nearly 2 minutes in front of Rupert who in turn was a minute and thirteen seconds ahead of Alan. Andy made a slight gain ahead of Chris to take 4^th place with Colin climbing another two places to lie 6^th, Jo 7^th, Zoe 8^th, Bill.G 9^th and Dave 10^th.

With Handicaps applied it was Rupert 1^st, Alan,2^nd, Chris 3^rd and Ed 4^th.

         SENIORS - RACE 3

Class	Handicap	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	Elapsed	BCE	Points
Streaker	1137	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		49.58	0.00.00	1.0
Streaker	1137	1700	Lancing S C	Alan Simmons		51.11	0.01.13	2.0
Streaker	1137	1706	NSSC	Laurence Venus		OOD		3.0
Laser Radial	1136	158365	NSSC	Chris Turner		52.09	0.02.14	3.0
Laser	1095	26/133416	NSSC	Bill Wates		OOD		3.0
Finn	1042	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		48.00	0.02.12	4.0
Laser	1095	8		Andy Richlinski		52.00	0.03.53	5.0
Laser Radial	1136	122345	NSSC	Jo West		54.22	0.04.27	6.0
Laser Radial	1136	64200	NSSC	Zoe McCaig		56.08	0.06.13	7.0
Laser	1095	7/176670	NSSC	Julian Dobson		45.25	0.05.19	8.0
RS 200	1047	582	NSSC	Micheal Veale	Mike Rosier	52.11	0.06.10	9.0
Laser Radial	1136	142208	NSSC	David Murley		56.48	0.06.53	10.0
Laser	1095	13999	NSSC	Colin Cryer		55.45	0.07.38	11.0
Topper	1341	41129	NSSC	Tiger Cox		45.44	0.06.27	12.0
Solution	1090	398	NSSC	Bill Giles		56.26	0.08.32	13.0
Laser Radial	1136	81	NSSC	Penelpoe Duncan		49.09	0.07.33	14.0
Laser Radial	1136	7757	NSSC	Ian Johnson		51.07	0.09.31	15.0
Laser	1095	43382	NSSC	Richard Beal		50.49	0.10.43	16.0

 

Race 4 began at 12.30 pm with Ed this time right at the inner mark, Rupert behind him, Alan just on his stern and Tiger just to weather of Alan. The next group was led by Ian to weather, Geoff near the shore end, Richard, then Penelope and lastly Michael. For this race there were seven less starters coming to the line leaving just eleven competitors. Again Ed was first to the windward mark with Alan second, having just gained a touch ahead and to windward of Rupert and these two continued to battle throughout the race.

At the end of the lap Ed was 45 seconds ahead of Alan who in turn was 2 seconds ahead of Rupert. Michael was 18 seconds astern of Rupert and 18 seconds ahead of Zoe. .Ian was 6^th, Penelope 7^th, Dave 8^th, Richard 9^th, Tiger 10^th and Geoff 11^th.

Lap 2 had Ed extend his lead to a minute and five seconds as Alan gained a little on Rupert. Michael pulled away from Zoe as Ian crashed down to 10^th place, Dave went up to 7^th with Tiger behind him and Geoff behind him Richard brought up the rear.

Lap 3 and Ed had extended his lead over Alan to nearly a minute and a half while Alan pulled away from Rupert. Alan’s Kicker, having been tightened between races complete with a capsize alongside one of the moored rescue craft, stayed in place during the race but he did lose one purchase on his mainsheet – luckily with the light breeze this was not a problem. Behind the leading three Michael, Zoe , Penelope and Dave all stayed in the same relative positions as Geoff gained a place to lie 8^th and Richard gained two places to lie 9^th as Tiger dropped back to 11^th.

Lap 4,  the final lap, Ed crossed the line a minute and thirty eight seconds ahead of Alan as he crossed 26 seconds ahead of Rupert – one second place finish for each of them today – with Michael next, then Zoe 5^th, Dave 6th who had passed Penelope and the remainder of the fleet in the same order as in the third lap.

With Handicaps applied Tiger was the winner with Alan 2nd, Rupert 3^rd and Ed 4^th once again.

 

SENIORS - RACE 4

Class	Handicap	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	Elapsed	BCE	Points
Topper	1341	41129	NSSC	Tiger Cox		35.02	0.00.00	1.0
Streaker	1137	1700	Lancing S C	Alan Simmons		30.19	0.00.37	2.0
Streaker	1137	1706	NSSC	Laurence Venus		OOD		3.0
Streaker	1137	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		30.45	0.01.03	3.0
Laser	1095	26/133416	NSSC	Bill Wates		OOD		3.0
Finn	1042	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		28.40	0.01.27	4.0
Laser Radial	1136	64200	NSSC	Zoe McCaig		32.00	0.02.19	5.0
Laser Radial	1136	142208	NSSC	David Murley		33.45	0.04.04	6.0
Laser Radial	1136	81	NSSC	Penelpoe Duncan		33.50	0.04.09	7.0
Byte (origl)	1148	671	NSSC	Geoff Sheridan		34.18	0.04.19	8.0
RS 200	1047	582	NSSC	Micheal Veale	Mike Rosier	31.18	0.03.57	9.0
Laser Radial	1136	7757	NSSC	Ian Johnson		34.52	0.05.11	10.0
Laser	1095	43382	NSSC	Richard Beal		34.41	0.06.05	11.0

 

The cadet first race of the day, starting at 11.20 am, had 12 entrants and sailed the same course as the Seniors albeit not so may laps.

At the gun it was Bill Hudson (Topper) who was first across the line on port tack having tacked just before the ’gun’. Next across was Harry Quinn (Oppie) then Bea West (Oppie) and Lucy McCaig (Topper).then Charlie Rigg (Topper). By the end of the first lap the order was Bill.H 1^st, Roan Briggs (Topper) 2^nd, Charlie 3^rd, Lucy 4^th= and tied with Maddi Quinn (Topper) 4^th= , Harvey Jenkins (Oppie) 6^th, Keith  Wright (Topper) 7^th, Toby Holmes-Ling (Oppie) 8^th, Alexander Danio and Bruno Baker (Peco) 9^th, Harry 10^th, Bea 11^th and George Quinn (Oppie) 12^th.

Lap 2 saw Bill.H drop from the front of the fleet to the absolute back (according to the timing record) so that Roan took over the lead Charlie was next around with Lucy 3^rd now 25 seconds ahead of Maddi. Harvey moved up a place to 5^th with Keith behind him and Toby 7^th behind him. Alexander was 8^th with Bea 9^th, George 10^th both having passed Harry who was then 11^th.

Lap 3 had Roan in the lead by 53 seconds from Lucy who was ahead of Charlie. He crossed the line simultaneously with Maddi to lie 3^rd =. Harvey was next at 5^th with Bill.H now back up to 6^th. Alexander had pulled back one position to lie 7^th and Keith dropped back to 8^th behind him. Toby also fell back to cross the line 9^th with Bea a place back to 10^th and George dropping to 11^th. Harry brought up the rear.

Lap 4 was sailed only by the Toppers  Less one with Bill.H having finished at the end of lap 3) as the all the Oppies had been finished.  1^st place was claimed by Roan with Lucy 2^nd, Maddi 3^rd having repassed Charlie.

With handicaps applied Harvey was the winner with Roan 2^nd, Lucy 3^rd and Maddi 4^th.

CADETS - RACE 3

Class	Handicap	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	Elapsed	BCE	Points
Oppie 'c'	1665	6019	NSSC	Harvey Jenkins		38.32	0.00.00	1.0
Topper 'c'	1341	14	NSSC	Roan Briggs		41.48	0.00.25	2.0
Topper 'c'	1341	26949	NSSC	Lucy McCaig		43.25	0.02.02	3.0
Topper 'c'	1341	8	NSSC	Maddi Quinn		44.00	0.02.37	4.0
Topper 'c'	1341	27531	NSSC	Charlie Riggs		44.43	0.03.20	5.0
Oppie 'c'	1665	6232	NSSC	Toby Holmes-Ling		42.11	0.03.39	6.0
Oppie 'c'	1665	4026	NSSC	Bea West		42.50	0.04.18	7.0
Oppie 'c'	1665	5536	NSSC	George Quinn		43.48	0.05.16	8.0
Oppie 'c'	1665	5538	NSSC	Harry Quinn		44.33	0.06.01	9.0
Topper 'c'	1341	44813	NSSC	Bill Hudson		39.56	0.08.54	10.0
Topper 'c'	1341	18302	NSSC	Keith Wright		41.09	0.10.07	11.0
Peco 'c'	1330	Yellow	NSSC	Alexander Danlo	Bruno Baker	40.51	0.10.04	12.0

 

Race 4 for the Cadets started at 12.35 pm again over the same course and from the same start line. Once again the fleet was a couple of boats less than for the first race of the day. Charlie got his bow over the line first, on port tack but had just about enough room to make it ahead of starboard tacking Bill.H and Roan. In the Oppies it was Harvey, well down the line 4^th away overall. On the beat up to the Fisherman’s Bay area mark Bill.H took the lead from Maddi and Roan, then came Charlie, Keith and Lucy. By the end of the lap the order was Bill.H 1^st, Maddi 2^nd, Harvey 3^rd, Keith 4^th , Charlie 5^th =,Lucy 5^th= , George 7^th, Harry 8^th, Toby 9^th and Roan 10^th.

Lap 2 and Maddi had taken the lead by 3 seconds from Bill.H. Roan had roared back to lie 3^rd.as Lucy gained two places to lie 4^th having overtaken Harvey 5^th, Charlie 6^th and Keith now 7^th. Harry was lying 8^th still with George having fallen back to 9^th and Toby also dropping one place.

Lap 3 was sailed by only 6 boats , the others having already finished. So at the close it was Maddi who crossed the line first, with Bill.H next and Roan third. Charlie came home 4^th with Harvey 5^th as Keith failed to cross the finish line in the required fashion and was subsequently disqualified.

With Handicaps applied Harvey was again the overall winner, Maddi took 2^nd place Bill.H 3^rd and Roan 45^th.

 

CADETS - RACE 4

Class	Handicap	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	Elapsed	BCE	Points
Oppie 'c'	1665	6019	NSSC	Harvey Jenkins		31.30	0.00.00	1.0
Topper 'c'	1341	8	NSSC	Maddi Quinn		28.50	0.03.28	2.0
Topper 'c'	1341	44813	NSSC	Bill Hudson		28.58	0.03.36	3.0
Topper 'c'	1341	14	NSSC	Roan Briggs		29.24	0.04.02	4.0
Oppie 'c'	1665	5538	NSSC	Harry Quinn		25.32	0.04.32	5.0
Topper 'c'	1341	27531	NSSC	Charlie Riggs		30.57	0.05.35	6.0
Oppie 'c'	1665	5536	NSSC	George Quinn		26.08	0.05.08	7.0
Oppie 'c'	1665	6232	NSSC	Toby Holmes-Ling		26.11	0.05.11	8.0
Topper 'c'	1341	26949	NSSC	Lucy McCaig		21.25	0.04.30	9.0
Topper 'c'	1341	18302	NSSC	Keith Wright		DSQ		24.0

 

Alan.S 1700.

PS. The results that I have posted here will not agree with those shown on the NSSC Web Site For personal reasons I have chosen to keep the two fleets, Seniors and Cadets, entirely separate whereas the club results show a combined fleet and extract the Cadets for their own Trophy series.

PPS If you Double click on any of the photos in this blog they will enlarge – to nearly blog page width..