Streaker Ramblings - Elford Numbum Races 3 & 4 - 14/01/2018

Blue-ish skies and a light ruffle of breeze upon leaving Hove for Piddinghoe. As the morning progressed the skies ‘warmed up’ to a deep blue and the breeze was in the order of force 2 to 3.

Race Officer for the day, Rupert Smith, assisted by Toby Rollestone  and with Penelope Duncan on the safety boat, set a course, as below, to suit the breeze coming from the north east - with a start line from the shore in front of the clubhouse and an inner and outer line mark and the windward mark in the middle of the pond to the west of the Island.

At the gun Chris Turner (Laser Radial – NSSC) was holding Alan Simmons (Streaker – Lancing)  to leeward at the shore end of line and was first to cross the line then tacking whilst Laurence Venus (Streaker – NSSC) and Duncan McDonald (Streaker – NSSC) stayed at the outer end of the line and found more breeze with Duncan finishing the lap in top spot followed by Laurence with Ed Thorburn (Finn – NSSC) in third place. Fourth place was claimed by Jazz Turner sailing Rupert’s Streaker – her first ever sail in this class. Chris Foster (Laser full rig – Lancing) was fifth, Paul Ryan (Laser full rig – Hardway) sixth,  Matt Sprigall(Laser full rig – NSSC) seventh, Julian Dobson (Laser full rig – NSSC) eighth, Jonty Freeman (Laser Radial - NSSC) ninth,  Bill Wates (Laser full rig – NSSC) tenth, Michael Veale and Mike Rosier (RS200 - NSSC) eleventh, Chris.T twelfth, Phil Clare (Laser Radial - NSSC) thirteenth, Roger McCall (Laser full rig – Pevensey Bay) fourteenth, Alan 15tth – having been envolved in a coming together with Jonty at the mark off the Fisherman’s Bay trying to take advantage of several boats all claiming water. Alan eneded up doing two turns and lost a good few places. Terry Jones (Comet – NSSC) crossed the line in sixteenth place with Dave Murley (Laser Radial – NSSC) seventeenth, Geoff Sheridan (Byte, original rig – NSSC) eighteenth, Richard Beal (Laser Radial – NSSC) nineteenth, Paul Langford (Laser full rig – NSSC) twentieth, Ed Rollestone (Oppie – NSSC) twenty first and Thomas Beck (Oppie – NSSC) twenty second.

In the second lap Laurence took the lead from Duncan and Ed.T moved up to lie second with Jazz remaining in fourth place. Paul overtook Chris. F to go 5^th and Jonty fell back to 14^th as Chris.T advanced to 9th. Roger made gains to lie behind him. Bill lost ground to cross the line in 15^th with Alan behind him and Richard behind Alan but ahead of Geoff and Paul.L Terry lost several place to cross 20^th.

Lap 3 had Laurence pulling further ahead of Ed.t and Duncan was overtaken by Chris.F who also passed Paul.R  who had also passed Duncan. Jazz dropped back down the order toile 8^th astern of Julian and Jonty regained a few places to lie 9^th. Alan gained places to lie 10^th ahead of Roger as Dave dropped back to lie 12^th. Bill rose up the order to lie 13^th ahead of Chris.T as Phil was dropped back to 15^th. Michael crashed down to lie 16^th and Richard also fell back to 20^th. Ed.R finished the lap in 21^st place, Thomas having finished at the end of the previous lap when he was already five and a half minutes behind Ed.

Lap 4, the final lap, and Laurence crossed the line over a minute ahead of Ed.T with Chris.F next another minute back. Duncan crossed in 4^th place having reeled in Paul.R and Jonty went ahead of Matt, Julian and Jazz and Alan also overtook Jazz to cross 10^th who in turn went ahead of Roger. Chris.T crossed the finish line 13^th still ahead of Michael with Bill having lost two places and Phil having also dropped down the order to cvross16th. Then came Geoff, Terry, and lastly Paul.L19th. With handicaps applied the overall winner was Laurence with Duncan second and Chris.F third

Results:-

                                                                      R3 - 14.01.2018

Rank	Boat	Class	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	PY	Elapsed	BCE	Points
1	Misty Blue	Streaker	706	NSSC	Laurence Venus		1132	39.25	0.00.00	1.0
2		Streaker	1934	NSSC	Duncan McDonald		1132	42.05	0.02.40	2.0
3		Laser Radial	81	NSSC	Penelope Duncan		1139	OOD		3.0
3		Streaker	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		1132	OOD		3.0
3		Laser	171864	Lancing	Chris Foster		1097	41.35	0.03.23	3.0
6		Laser Radial	192842	NSSC	Jonty Freeman		1139	44.02	0.04.22	4.0
7		Laser	49864	Hardway	Paul Ryan		1097	42.40	0.04.28	5.5
7		Finn	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		1045	40.39	0.04.16	5.5
9		Streaker	1700	Lancing	Alan Simmons		1132	45.50	0.06.25	7.0
10	Scoundrel	Streaker	1681	NSSC	Jazz Turner		1132	45.55	0.06.30	8.0
11		Laser	153670	NSSC	Matt Springall		1097	44.41	0.06.29	9.0
12		Laser	7	NSSC	Julian Dobson		1097	45.12	0.07.00	10.0
13		Oppie	2530	NSSC	Ed Rollestone		1665	51.44	0.08.15	11.0
14		Laser Radial	158365	NSSC	Chris Turner		1139	47.20	0.07.40	12.0
15		Comet	473	NSSC	Terry Jones		1204	50.12	0.08.17	13.0
16		Byte (Orig Rig)	672	NSSC	Geoff Sheridan		1190	49.39	0.08.13	14.0
17		Laser	191067	Pevensey SC	Roger McCall		1097	46.23	0.08.11	15.0
18		Laser Radial	142208	NSSC	Dave Murley		1139	48.29	0.08.49	16.0
19		Laser Radial	120481	NSSC	Phil Clare		1139	49.09	0.09.29	17.0
20		Laser	133416	NSSC	Bill Wates		1097	48.10	0.09.58	18.0
21	Hot Toddy	RS200	582	NSSC	Michael Veale	Mike Rosier	1047	47.22	0.10.55	19.0
22		Laser Radial	43382	NSSC	Richard Beal		1139	39.52	0.10.07	20.0
23		Laser	11	NSSC	Paul Langford		1097	51.21	0.13.09	21.0
24		Oppie	5641	NSSC	Thomas Beck		1665	39.37	0.10.38	22.0

For the second race of the day Rupert decided to change the start to suit the shifted breeze. This time the line was from the south bank, at the eastern end of the jetty, to the mark in the south west corner of the pond – in front of the clubhouse. Jonty did not sail in this race, having some more pressing engagement to attend to.

It was Duncan, towards the shore end, who led off the line with Laurence just to leeward whilst Paul.R and Chris.F were next away at the pin end of the line. By the end of the lap Laurence had already pulled out a 36 second lead over Duncan with Paul.R third and Jazz just behind him in 4^th. Matt was 5^th well ahead of Roger in 6th place ahead of Chris.F with Alan astern of him in 8^th place. Ed.T came through next  in 9^th place  with Chris.T behind him , then Julian, Geoff and Terry 13^th. Phil was next across the line at 14^th with Michael next , then Richard, Dave, Bill and Paul.L  The Oppies of Ed.R and Thomas brought up the final placings at 20^th  and 21^stwith Ed already 3 minutes ahead of Thomas.

Lap 2 Saw Laurence extend his lead ahead of Duncan as Paul>r retained third place leading Jazz and Ed.T came up the fleet to lie 5^th  ahead of Matt, Chris.F and Roger as Alan fell back to lie 9^th ahead of Chris.T. Michael pulled up to go ahead of Julian. Phil went ahead of Terry and Bill gained places to lie 15^th    as Terry got left behind dropping to 17^th and Richard also fell back to 19^th.

Lap 3 saw no change in the leading three placements but Ed.T went ahead of Jazz as did Chris.. Alan clawed his way through to lie 8thahead of Roger with Chris.T lying 10^th. Behind this group Michael and Julian stayed 11^th and 12thas Bill went ahead of Phil and Geoff. There were no place changes in the remainder of the fleet.

Lap 4 and there were no positional changes among the four leading boats with Laurence making little or no gain this time. Jazz passed Chris.F to lie 6^th and Roger passing Alan as Matt was passed by Alan. Julian went ahead of Michael and Dave climbed  up to 13^th ahead of Bill and Geoff as Phil fell back to 16^th.Terry then Paul.L brought up the rear with Richard and the two Oppies having been finished at the end of lap 3.

Lap 5, the final lap and it was Laurence first across the line with Duncan second and Paul.R third.

Ed.T was fourth and Jazz fifth, there were no place changes further down the fleet with Julian last to finish in 11^th place.

With handicap applied the results were Laurence first, Duncan second and Paul.R third.
Results:-

                                                                  R4 - 14.01.2018

Rank	Boat	Class	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	PY	Elapsed	BCE	Points
1	Misty Blue	Streaker	706	NSSC	Laurence Venus		1132	45.31	0.00.00	1.0
2		Streaker	1934	NSSC	Duncan McDonald		1132	46.20	0.00.49	2.0
3		Laser Radial	81	NSSC	Penelope Duncan		1139	OOD		3.0
3		Streaker	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		1132	OOD		3.0
3		Laser	49864	Hardway	Paul Ryan		1097	50.08	0.06.01	3.0
6	Scoundrel	Streaker	1681	NSSC	Jazz Turner		1132	51.52	0.06.21	4.0
7		Laser Radial	158365	NSSC	Chris Turner		1139	53.09	0.07.21	5.0
8		Streaker	1700	Lancing	Alan Simmons		1132	52.52	0.07.21	6.0
9		Finn	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		1045	49.05	0.07.04	7.0
10		Laser	171864	Lancing	Chris Foster		1097	51.39	0.07.32	8.0
11		Laser	153670	NSSC	Matt Springall		1097	52.40	0.08.33	9.0
12		Laser	191067	Pevensey SC	Roger McCall		1097	52.43	0.08.36	10.0
13		Oppie	2530	NSSC	Ed Rollestone		1665	49.35	0.09.25	11.0
14		Laser	7	NSSC	Julian Dobson		1097	54.39	0.10.32	12.0
15		Byte (Orig Rig)	672	NSSC	Geoff Sheridan		1190	47.28	0.09.11	13.0
16		Laser Radial	142208	NSSC	Dave Murley		1139	47.00	0.10.22	14.0
17		Comet	473	NSSC	Terry Jones		1204	49.55	0.11.11	15.0
18		Laser Radial	120481	NSSC	Phil Clare		1139	47.32	0.10.54	16.0
19		Laser	133416	NSSC	Bill Wates		1097	47.12	0.11.55	17.0
20	Hot Toddy	RS200	582	NSSC	Michael Veale	Mike Rosier	1047	45.47	0.12.06	18.0
21		Laser	11	NSSC	Paul Langford		1097	51.56	0.16.39	19.0
22		Oppie	5641	NSSC	Thomas Beck		1665	61.45	0.21.35	20.0
23		Laser Radial	43382	NSSC	Richard Beal		1139	49.29	0.22.00	21.0

It was a combination of the course and strength of the wind but it all led to a goodly amount of place changing in both races.

Alan.S 1700

PS. If this report is a bit thin on ‘happenings’ it is due to the lateness of publishing – not helped by our break in Switzerland and a new Computer requiring quite a bit of setting up and not yet finished – which does not help with the memory of the odd incident.

There are still two more Sundays to cover and will be dealt with directly.