Cold but with blue skies and
a light breeze on leaving home for Piddinghoe. On arrival at the pond there was
a force 1 to 2 blowing from the North east corner of the pond – Fisherman’s Bay
area.
The course for the day, set
By RO Ed Thorburn, assisted by Mr. Halland –Smith with Toby Rollestone and Jo W
in the safety boat, was a figure of eight shape as shown below:-
For the first race of the
morning 18 boats went afloat which made for a rather congested start line at
the favoured pin end. Chris Foster (Laser full rig, Lancing) was first to cross
the line at the gun with Rupert Smith (Streaker, NSSC) next to go and Dave
Murley (Radial, NSSC) third away. Laurence Venus (Streaker,NSSC) was just a
little behind Dave but to windward. A group of four boats were much closer to
the west bank, Zoe McCaig (Radial, NSSC), Tiger Cox (Radial,NSSC), Thomas
Halland-Smith (Radial, NSSC) and Matt
Springall (Laser full rig, NSSC). At the back of the fleet Ewan Hamilton was
the last to get across the line and onto the course.
Matt sailed in towards the
west bank just beyond the Children’s Wharf and in his Roll tack, to avoid the
reeds, was a bit too enthusiastic and tipped his Laser onto its side but
managed, just, to stay out of the water.
Rupert was the first boat to round the
mark off the Fisherman’s bay and led Chris around the resat of the lap with
Laurence then back in third place. Alan Simmons (Streaker, Lancing) was in
fourth place at the end of the lap with Roger McCall (Laser full rig, Pevensey)
fifth, Michael Veale and Mike Rosier (RS 200, NSSC) sixth. Julian Dobson was
lying seventh, Matt at eigth, Zoe, ninth and Geoff Sheridan (Radial, NSSC)
tenth. Dave held eleventh place with Thomas twelfth, Tiger thirteenth, Penelope
Duncan (Radial, NSSC) fourteenth, Terry Jones (Comet, NSSC) fifteenth, Richard
Beal (Radial, NSSC) sixteenth, Ed Rollestone (Laser 4.7, NSSC) seventeenth and
Ewan eighteenth.
Lap 2 had Laurence passing
Rupert to lead the fleet and Chris sloting in to second place while Alan stayed
in fourth with Roger and Michael behind him. Matt and Zoe each gained a place to lie seventh and eigth
ahead of Julian who dropped back and Dave went ahead of Geoff to lie tenth. There were no place changes behind Geoff
although the relative gaps changed a little.
Lap 3 saw Laurence
continuing to pull away ahead of Chris and Chris extending his second place
away from Rupert. Roger just passed Alan before the line to cross 2 seconds
ahead.
There were no further place changes behind Alan but Ewan managed to
capsize his Oppy and was ‘rescued’ by the safety boat and towed ashore. His
mother Emma, who had been taking the photos used in this report, went to help
him put his boat away and he did not sail in the second race.
Lap 4 Laurence extended his lead
still further, now 47 seconds in front of Chris who was 55 seconds ahead of
third placed Rupert. Roger retained fourth place slightly further ahead of
Alan. Michael , Matt, Zoe, Julian and
Dave maintained their relative positions – sixth to tenth as Thomas and Tiger
went ahead of Geoff with Penelope and Terry staying fourteenth and Fifteenth.
Ed.R passed Richard to cross the line sixteenth. Lap 5 was contested by nine
boats, those behind having already been finished
Lap five had Laurence cross
the line ahead of Chris but the latter had closed the gap to 20 seconds and
Rupert also closed up on Chris to cross 10 seconds astern. Alan also closed in
on Roger but was unable to catch him finishing just four seconds behind.
Michael, Matt, Zoe and Julian finished in that order .
With Handicaps applied
Laurence was the winner, with Chris second, Rupert third, Alan fourth and Roger
fifth.
R5|
Rank
|
Class
|
SailNo
|
Club
|
HelmName
|
CrewName
|
PY
|
Elapsed
|
BCE
|
Points
|
|
1
|
STREAKER
|
1706
|
NSSC
|
Laurence
Venus
|
|
1128
|
41.04
|
0.00.00
|
1.0
|
|
2
|
LASER
|
171864
|
Lancing
|
Chris
Foster
|
|
1098
|
41.24
|
0.01.26
|
2.0
|
|
3
|
FINN
|
595
|
NSSC
|
Ed
Thorburn
|
|
1051
|
OOD
|
|
3.0
|
|
3
|
STREAKER
|
1681
|
NSSC
|
Rupert
Smith
|
|
1128
|
42.34
|
0.01.30
|
3.0
|
|
3
|
LASER
|
52300
|
NSSC
|
Toby
Rollestone
|
|
1098
|
OOD
|
|
3.0
|
|
6
|
STREAKER
|
1700
|
Lancing
|
Alan Simmons
|
|
1128
|
43.36
|
0.02.32
|
4.0
|
|
7
|
LASER
|
191067
|
Pevensey
Bay
|
Roger
McCall
|
|
1098
|
43.32
|
0.03.34
|
5.0
|
|
8
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
64200
|
NSSC
|
Zoe
McCaig
|
|
1142
|
45.42
|
0.04.07
|
6.0
|
|
9
|
LASER
|
158365
|
NSSC
|
Matt
Springall
|
|
1098
|
44.07
|
0.04.09
|
7.0
|
|
10
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
142208
|
NSSC
|
Dave
Murley
|
|
1142
|
38.20
|
0.05.04
|
8.0
|
|
11
|
LASER
|
7
|
NSSC
|
Julian
Dobson
|
|
1098
|
46.13
|
0.06.15
|
9.5
|
|
11
|
RS 200
|
582
|
NSSC
|
Michael
Veale
|
Mike
Rosier
|
1046
|
44.02
|
0.05.57
|
9.5
|
|
13
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
72341
|
NSSC
|
Thomas
Harland Smith (C)
|
|
1142
|
39.01
|
0.05.45
|
11.0
|
|
14
|
COMET
|
473
|
NSSC
|
Terry
Jones
|
|
1205
|
41.18
|
0.06.12
|
12.0
|
|
15
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
8
|
NSSC
|
Tiger
Cox
|
|
1142
|
39.44
|
0.06.28
|
13.0
|
|
16
|
LASER
4.7`
|
207462
|
NSSC
|
Ed
Rollestone (C)
|
|
1207
|
42.05
|
0.06.56
|
14.0
|
|
17
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
(64200)
|
NSSC
|
Geoff
Sheridan
|
|
1142
|
40.08
|
0.06.52
|
15.0
|
|
18
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
81
|
NSSC
|
Penelope
Duncan
|
|
1142
|
40.22
|
0.07.06
|
16.0
|
|
19
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
43382
|
NSSC
|
Richard
Beal
|
|
1142
|
32.15
|
0.07.18
|
17.0
|
|
20
|
OPTIMIST
|
4064
|
NSSC
|
Ewan
Hamilton (C)
|
|
1655
|
DNF
|
|
19.0
|
The
second Race – No 6 in the series – was sailed over the same course in a touch
more breeze – force 3 - and again there was a goodly clump of boats at the ODM.
Alan came up a little too late and was forced the wrong side of the mark only
to have Roger and Chris below him harden up into his port side. As a result of
720 degree turns Alan was the last to start in the now seventeen strong fleet.
Matt however got a clean start and off to the Fisherman’s Bay in the lead.
Julian was again up towards the front and at the end of the lap held fourth
place behind Laurence but ahead of Rupert. There were some crushes at the marks
and Alan made good headway to claw back to ninth place behind Thomas, Zoe and
Roger. Dave crossed in tenth ahead of Tiger, Michael, Richard, Penelope, Geoff,
Ed.R and Terry.
Lap 2
Saw Matt and Chris extend their lead from Laurence as Rupert moved ahead of
Julian to lie fourth. Julian was also overtaken by Thomas who took sixth
position at the line. Zoe dropped to eighth as Alan remained ninth with Tiger
and Michael astern. Terry moved up from
last place to lie twelfth ahead of Geoff who had passed Penelope and Richard
dropped back to cross in sixteenth behind fifteenth place Ed.R with Dave
bringing up last place.
Lap 3
Chris took the lead from Matt and opened up a comfortable 15 second gap. Both
pulled a bit further ahead of third placed Laurence who stayed about the same
distance ahead of Rupert as in the previous lap. Thomas dropped back to eighth
ahead of Alan as Zoe overtook him and Julian to lie sixth. Tiger maintained
tenth place as Dave made a comeback to lie eleventh ahead of Michael and
Penelope went ahead of Geoff as Richard went in front of Ed.R with Terry
dropping back to seventeenth.
Lap 4
Chris and Matt were still well ahead of Laurence and stretching away from him
but Rupert dropped a bit further astern of him. Roger and Zoe held on to fifth
and sixth places and Thomas and Alan each moved ahead of Julian, now 9th. There were no place changes between tenth
placed Tiger and Penelope in thirteenth placed Penelope but Ed.R overtook
Richard once more. All but the front four boats were finished at the end of
this lap.
Lap 5
saw Chris cross the line 27 seconds ahead of Matt who was a minute and 32
seconds ahead of Laurence with Rupert another 18 seconds astern having closed
in a good bit in this last lap.
With the
results calculated the winner was Chris with Matt second, Laurence third,
Rupert fourth and Zoe fifth.
R6
|
Rank
|
Class
|
SailNo
|
Club
|
HelmName
|
CrewName
|
PY
|
Elapsed
|
BCE
|
Points
|
|
1
|
LASER
|
171864
|
Lancing
|
Chris
Foster
|
|
1098
|
35.19
|
0.00.00
|
1.0
|
|
2
|
LASER
|
158365
|
NSSC
|
Matt
Springall
|
|
1098
|
35.46
|
0.00.27
|
2.0
|
|
3
|
STREAKER
|
1706
|
NSSC
|
Laurence
Venus
|
|
1128
|
37.18
|
0.01.01
|
3.0
|
|
3
|
FINN
|
595
|
NSSC
|
Ed
Thorburn
|
|
1051
|
OOD
|
|
3.0
|
|
3
|
LASER
|
52300
|
NSSC
|
Toby
Rollestone
|
|
1098
|
OOD
|
|
3.0
|
|
6
|
STREAKER
|
1681
|
NSSC
|
Rupert
Smith
|
|
1128
|
37.46
|
0.01.29
|
4.0
|
|
7
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
64200
|
NSSC
|
Zoe McCaig
|
|
1142
|
31.24
|
0.02.01
|
5.0
|
|
8
|
STREAKER
|
1700
|
Lancing
|
Alan
Simmons
|
|
1128
|
31.28
|
0.02.26
|
6.0
|
|
9
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
72341
|
NSSC
|
Thomas
Harland Smith (C)
|
|
1142
|
31.57
|
0.02.34
|
7.0
|
|
10
|
LASER
|
191067
|
Pevensey
Bay
|
Roger
McCall
|
|
1098
|
30.58
|
0.02.43
|
8.0
|
|
11
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
8
|
NSSC
|
Tiger Cox
|
|
1142
|
32.43
|
0.03.20
|
9.0
|
|
12
|
LASER
|
7
|
NSSC
|
Julian
Dobson
|
|
1098
|
31.45
|
0.03.30
|
10.0
|
|
13
|
LASER 4.7`
|
207462
|
NSSC
|
Ed
Rollestone (C)
|
|
1207
|
36.11
|
0.05.08
|
11.0
|
|
14
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
142208
|
NSSC
|
Dave
Murley
|
|
1142
|
34.29
|
0.05.06
|
12.0
|
|
15
|
COMET
|
473
|
NSSC
|
Terry
Jones
|
|
1205
|
37.26
|
0.06.26
|
13.0
|
|
16
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
81
|
NSSC
|
Penelope
Duncan
|
|
1142
|
35.38
|
0.06.15
|
14.0
|
|
17
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
(64200)
|
NSSC
|
Geoff
Sheridan
|
|
1142
|
35.47
|
0.06.24
|
15.0
|
|
18
|
LASER
RADIAL
|
43382
|
NSSC
|
Richard
Beal
|
|
1142
|
36.18
|
0.06.55
|
16.0
|
|
19
|
RS 200
|
582
|
NSSC
|
Michael
Veale
|
Mike
Rosier
|
1046
|
34.44
|
0.07.49
|
17.0
|
A nice little breeze,
perhaps it could have been a touch stronger for the first race but it came up a
trifle in the second race. Apart from the excitement of Matt’s near swim,
Ewan’s real swim and the writer’s clash at the start of the second race there
were a few close duels on the water some of which led to good gains for some.
The outlook for next Sunday is currently quite reasonable at about the same
strength as this day’s forecast - which
did not fully arrive – but a bit more variable in direction.
Alan.S 1700
PS. Don't forget that if you wish to see the overall results (and the official version of mine) go to:- http://www.nssc.org.uk/cms/images/nsscdocs/results/2019/2019numbumr4.htmPPS. Should you wish to have copies of any of the photo files used in this or any of the previous blogs/reports please contact: - alan.simmons63@ntlworld.com
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