Streaker Ramblings - NumBum Races 3 & 4 - 13.01.2019

 

Grey Sky with the cloud in layers, not cold but no sunshine and the breeze just stirring the Bamboo in the next door garden as I left Hove for Piddinghoe. The XCWeather forecast was for 20 Knots from the west but on arrival it was blowing barely a whisper. There  was a bright skyline over the south sky but it never opened up.

Laurence Venus (Streaker, NSSC) was RO for the racing assisted by Emma Briggs with Penelope Duncan (Radial, NSSC) and Stefanie Dornbusch (Boat unknown, NSSC) in the safety boat. Laurence set an 'M’ shaped course with the start by the second, easterly, slipway along the south bank. The first leg was to windward to a mark in the south west corner of the pond, just off the clubhouse, as shown below.

 

 

Some seventeen boats took to the water and at the gun Dave Murley (Radial, NSSC) and Terry Jones (Comet, NSSC) were amongst the first across the line from the shore end. Further out Rupert Smith (Streaker, NSSC), Chris Foster (Laser, Lancing) and Alan Simmons (Streaker, Lancing) were also quickly away at the ODM end of the line.

 

Rupert was first to the weather mark and off towards the mark off the Fisherman’s Bay with Chris and Alan following and with Ed Thorburn (Finn, NSSC) not far astern.

 

 

Rupert began to pull out a good lead on the way to the mark off the South shore and by the end of the lap was 29 seconds ahead of second placed Alan with Ed.T third a further nine second behind. Chris was fourth ahead of Roger McCall (Laser, Pevensey).

 

 

 Michael Veale and Mike Rosier (RS 200, NSSC) were in sixth place with Thomas Harland-Smith (Radial, NSSC) seventh, Zoe McCaig (Radial, NSSC) eight, Lucy McCaig (Radial, NSSC) ninth, Dave Murley tenth, Geoff Sheridan (Radial, NSSC) eleventh and Terry Jones twelfth. Jo West (Radial, NSSC) was in thirteenth place ahead of Richard Beal (Radial, NSSC), fifteenth placed Jazz Turner (Hansa, NSSC), with Brendon Rudd and Lewis Johns (Laser II, NSSC) sixteenth and Bea West (Oppy, NSSC) seventeenth.

Lap 2 saw Ed.T go into the lead  from Chris, by 2 seconds with Alan now third,1 second behind and with Rupert 36 seconds further astern, having ‘fallen out’ of his Streaker on the long beat from the mark in the south east corner. Michael went ahead of Roger to lie in fifth place and Thomas dropped back to 19^th behind Zoe seventh, Dave eigth and Lucy still ninth. Terry gained a place on Geoff and Jo retired allowing Richard up to thirteenth with Brendon astern and ahead of Jazz and Bea.

 

Lap 3.had Ed.T and Chris at the front with Rupert  managing to catch and pass Alan at the south west corner mark to lie third. Dave pulled up two places to lie sixth behind Michael having passed Roger and Zoe on the way. Terry climbed up to lie ninth ahead of Thomas and Lucy with Geoff retaining twelfth and no further place changes behind.

 

Lap 4 and only four boats remained sailing as the breeze dropped right off leaving Ed.t to cross the line a minute and 14 seconds ahead of Chris. Rupert was third across 2 minutes 36 second further back with Alan bringing up the tail some four minutes adrift.

With Handicaps applied the result was a win for Chris with Rupert second, Ed.T third, Jazz fourth and Terry fifth.

                                                                                    R3

Rank	Class	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	PY	Elapsed	BCE	Points
1	LASER	171864	Lancing	Chris Foster		1098	55.40	0.00.00	1.0
2	STREAKER	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		1128	58.16	0.01.05	2.0
3	STREAKER	1706	NSSC	Laurence Venus		1128	OOD		3.0
3	FINN	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		1051	54.26	0.01.09	3.0
3	LASER RADIAL	81	NSSC	Penelope Duncan		1142	OOD		3.0
3	xxxxxxx	xxxxxxx	NSSC	Stefanie Dornbusch			OOD		3.0
7	HANSA	5	NSSC	Jazz Turner		1600	63.24	0.02.34	4.0
8	COMET	473	NSSC	Terry Jones		1205	49.45	0.03.56	5.0
9	STREAKER	1700	Lancing	Alan Simmons		1128	62.15	0.05.04	6.0
10	OPTIMIST	6356	NSSC	Bea West (C)		1655	46.06	0.04.09	7.0
11	LASER RADIAL	142208	NSSC	Dave Murley		1142	48.14	0.04.49	8.0
12	LASER RADIAL	64200	NSSC	Zoe McCaig		1142	48.36	0.05.11	9.0
13	LASER	191067	Pevensey Bay	Roger McCall		1098	48.21	0.06.36	10.0
14	LASER RADIAL	72341	NSSC	Thomas Harland Smith (C)		1142	50.25	0.07.00	11.0
15	RS 200	582	NSSC	Michael Veale	Mike Rosier	1046	46.35	0.06.49	12.0
16	LASER RADIAL	64200	NSSC	Lucy McCaig (C)		1142	51.03	0.07.38	13.0
17	LASER RADIAL	(64200)	NSSC	Geoff Sheridan		1142	53.44	0.10.19	14.0
18	LASER RADIAL	43382	NSSC	Richard Beal		1142	54.19	0.10.54	15.0
19	LASER II	10098	NSSC	Brandon Rudd	Lenis Johns	1075	55.42	0.14.49	16.0
20	LASER RADIAL	122345	NSSC	Jo West		1142	DNF		18.0

The second race was held over the same course but by the start it was blowing a good force three with gusts into the force four range.

 

 

 

Amongst the first away were Chris, Jo and Lucy and Zoe  but Chris turned off at the wrong mark – the one between the ODM and that in the south west corner off the clubhouse. He picked up the correct  route in subsequent laps but as a result of his error was timed a lap behind.

 

 

 

A fairly large group of boats ended up together at the mark off the Fisherman’s bay and with quite a few ahead Alan tried to get up above Terry and – in a gust – capsized allowing everybody to pass whilst he tried to recover. At the end of the first lap the order was Ed.T ahead of Zoe, Jo third in line and Michael fourth. Thomas was in fifth place with Lucy sixth, Dave seventh, Rupert, who had had a very poor start, was lying eigth, Richard ninth, Roger tenth, Brendon eleventh, Geoff twelfth and Terry thirteenth. Alan was, after recovery before the safety boat saw him struggling to get back aboard, fourteenth with only Jazz and Bea astern.

 

Lap 2 and Ed.T still holds the lead but now from Michael who has gone ahead of Zoe and Jo and as Rupert puts on a spurt to lie 5^th passing Thomas, Lucy and Dave  who remains in seventh place. Richard retains 9^th place as Roger retires having suffered a capsize after his mainsheet snagged his transom. Brendon moves up a place to lie 10^th as Alan climbs up to 11^th ahead of Terry – now ahead of Geoff – and Chris is timed in at 14^th with Bea ahead of Jazz.

Lap 3 Ed.T and Michael lead the fleet as Rupert goes 3^rd ahead of Jo who in turn leapfrogs Zoe. Thomas stays 6^th with Dave behind him and Lucy drops back behind him. Alan gains another two places to lie 9thwith Richard astern and Chris timed behind him. Brandon  drops back to lie in 12^th place with Terry having been passed. Geoff, in 14^th place lies ahead of Bea with Jazz behind her.

Lap 4 and Rupert is now up to second place astern of Ed.T and ahead of Zoe with Michael back to 4^th place and Jo 5^th.Thomas still retains 7^th place with Lucy behind him and Alan up to 8^th ahead of Richard. Dave  is back down to 10thwith Chris at 11^th . Brendon stays in 12^th place with Geoff having overtaken Terry. Jazz past Bea to cross the line, and finish, 15^th.

Lap 5 is contested by five boats , all the rest having finished at the end of lap 4. Ed.T takes line honours ahead of Rupert by a minute an 26 seconds with Zoe third, Michael 4^th and Jo 5^th.

After applying the handicaps the winner is Bea with Zoe second, Rupert 3^rd, Jo 4^th and Ed.T 5^th.

                                                                                      R4

Rank	Class	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	PY	Elapsed	BCE	Points
1	OPTIMIST	6356	NSSC	Bea West (C)		1655	32.21	0.00.00	1.0
2	LASER RADIAL	64200	NSSC	Zoe McCaig		1142	37.14	0.00.02	2.0
3	STREAKER	1706	NSSC	Laurence Venus		1128	OOD		3.0
3	LASER RADIAL	81	NSSC	Penelope Duncan		1142	OOD		3.0
3	STREAKER	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		1128	36.56	0.00.11	3.0
3	xxxxxxx	xxxxxxx	NSSC	Stefanie Dornbusch			OOD		3.0
7	LASER RADIAL	122345	NSSC	Jo West		1142	38.29	0.01.17	4.0
8	FINN	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		1051	35.30	0.01.16	5.0
9	HANSA	5	NSSC	Jazz Turner		1600	33.58	0.02.42	6.0
10	LASER RADIAL	72341	NSSC	Thomas Harland Smith (C)		1142	32.45	0.02.59	7.0
11	RS 200	582	NSSC	Michael Veale	Mike Rosier	1046	37.50	0.03.45	8.0
12	LASER RADIAL	64200	NSSC	Lucy McCaig (C)		1142	33.46	0.04.00	9.0
13	LASER RADIAL	43382	NSSC	Richard Beal		1142	34.08	0.04.22	10.0
14	LASER RADIAL	142208	NSSC	Dave Murley		1142	34.13	0.04.27	11.0
15	STREAKER	1700	Lancing	Alan Simmons		1128	33.52	0.04.28	12.0
16	COMET	473	NSSC	Terry Jones		1205	37.10	0.05.46	13.0
17	LASER	171864	Lancing	Chris Foster		1098	34.24	0.05.47	14.0
18	LASER RADIAL	(64200)	NSSC	Geoff Sheridan		1142	36.08	0.06.22	15.0
19	LASER II	10098	NSSC	Brandon Rudd	Lenis Johns	1075	35.47	0.07.46	16.0
20	LASER	191067	Pevensey Bay	Roger McCall		1098	DNF		18.0

 

The first race was held in somewhat trying conditions with the wind varying greatly in strength, especially on the final lap when it almost completely died out. The second race the forecast began to be fulfilled with sufficient breeze to get boats on the plane on some of the legs for a few moments. It never did however reach the forecast strengths.

Alan.S 1700

PS. If you wish to see the overall results – for the series so far – go to the NSSC web site, results page for the details :- http://www.nssc.org.uk/cms/images/nsscdocs/results/2019/2019numbumr4.htm