Streaker Ramblings - Freman Iceberg 2019 - Races 3 & 4 -10/11/2019

Blue skies with a fair bit of heavy white cloud and a gentle breeze as we left Hove for Piddinghoe Sunday morning, 10^th November. On arrival it was still bright and a fair bit of cloud but the breeze was now fresh, about top end force 4. Laurence Venus was unwrapping his Hadron and was a mind to use the smaller of his two sails but within minutes decided not to sail after all. Some sixteen other boats did however venture onto the waters. The Race Officer, Michael Veale (RS 200, NSSC) assisted by Anna Freeman and with Mike rosier (his Crew) and Amanda in the safety boat, set an’ M’ shaped course – as shown below – with the somewhat short start/finish line just east of the clubhouse.

 

First to cross the line near the pin end was Ed Rollestone in his laser 4.7. Just to leeward was Lucy McCaig in her Laser Radial and third away, behind but to windward, of these two was Jonty Freeman also in a Laser radial. Rupert Smith in a Streaker was to leeward of the group. The fleet split with most tacking off towards the South East whilst the remainder stayed on starboard tack towards the Fisherman’s Bay – wrong mark?

First up the leg from the mark behind the Island was Sean Beevor in a full rig Laser with Jonty behind him. Lying third at this stage was Zoe McCaig ( Radial) with Rupert just outside her and Ed Thorburn a good bit closer to the south shore just behind.

By the end of the lap Jonty was in the lead followed by Ed.T and then Rupert third.  Thomas Harland-Smith (Radial) was lying fourth, with Zoe fifth.

See the Spreadsheet below for all competitor positions throughout the race:-

Race 3 - 10/11/2019

Posn	Class	Sail No	Lap 1	e time	Lap 2	e time	Lap 3	e time	Lap 4	e time	Posn
1	Laser R	192842	J Freeman	7.36	J Freeman	15.18	E Thorburn	23.50	E Thorburn	31.33	1
2	Finn	595	E Thorburn	8.04	E Thorburn	15.30	J Freeman	24.01	J Freeman	31.58	2
3	Streaker	1681	R Smith	8.20	R Smith	16.15	R Smith	24.46	R Smith	33.10	3
4	Laser R	72341	T Harland-Smith	8.32	Z McCaig	17.02	T Harland-Smith	25.54	T Harland-Smith	34.23	4
5	Laser R	64200	Z McCaig	8.33	T Harland-Smith	17.06	Z McCaig	26.23	E Rollestone	36.08	5
6	Laser 4.7	207462	E Rollestone	8.52	E Rollestone	17.45	A Simmons	26.49	Z McCaig	36.12	6
7	Laser	122461	D Hitchens	8.58	A Simmons	17.59	E Rollestone	26.55	A Simmons	36.15	7
8	Laser R	142208	D.Murley	9.04	D Hitchens	18.07	B Wates	27.13	B Wates	36.41	8
9	Streaker	1700	A Simmons	9.06	B Wates	18.07	D Hitchens	28.01	D Hitchens	37.16	9
10	Laser	26	B Wates	9.13	D.Murley	18.2	D.Murley	28.15	D.Murley	38.12	10
11	Laser	7	J Dobson	9.22	L McCaig	18.32	L McCaig	28.35	L McCaig	38.16	11
12	Laser R	6420	L McCaig	9.50	J Dobson	18.54	J Dobson	28.37	J Dobson	38.38	12
13	Comet	473	T Jones	10.50	T Jones	21.16	T Jones	31.43			13
14	Topper 4.2	4764	T Beck	11.35	T Beck	23.33	T Beck	34.23			14
15	Laser	46237	S.Beevor	17.50	S.Beevor	26.46	S.Beevor	36.24			15
16	Laser R	91329	P Duncan	Retd							16

 

From the above it can be seen that Jonty continued to lead Ed.T in the 2^nd lap  with Rupert.S going ahead of Thomas.H-S to lie third a positon Rupert maintained to the finish of the race. Thomas H-S dropped behind Zoe in lap 2 only to regain fourth in th next lap and hold on to that position to the finish.

In lap 2 Zoe passed Thomas to hold fourth place only to lose out again in lap 3 when Ed.T also managed to pass Jonty.F.  Alan Simmons (Streaker) having sailed for the wrong mark at the beginning of the race languished in mid fleet throughout the race finishing the first lap in ninth. He did gain a couple of places in lap 2 and another in lap 3 only to lose out again to Zoe in the final lap finishing seventh.

With handicaps applied and corrected times calculated the winner was Jonty Freeman, with Rupert Smith second, Ed Rollestone  third, Ed Thorburn fourth and Thomas Harland-Smith fifth.

                                                                  R3 - 10/11/2019

Rank	Class	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	PY	Elapsed	Laps	BCE	Points
1	LASER RADIAL	192842	NSSC	Jonty Freeman		1145	31.58	4	0.00.00	1.0
2	STREAKER	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		1128	33.10	4	0.01.40	2.0
3	LASER 4.7	207452	NSSC	Ed Rllestone		1207	36.08	4	0.02.26	3.0
4	FINN	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		1051	31.33	4	0.02.12	4.0
5	LASER RADIAL	72341	NSSC	Thomas Harland-Smith		1145	34.23	4	0.02.25	5.0
6	LASER RADIAL	64200	NSSC	Zoe McCaig		1145	36.12	4	0.04.14	6.0
7	LASER RADIAL	26	NSSC	Bill Wates		1145	36.41	4	0.04.43	7.0
8	STREAKER	1700	Lancing	Alan Simmons		1128	36.15	4	0.04.45	8.0
9	TOPPER 4.2	4764	NSSC	Thomas Beck		1416	34.23	3	0.04.44	9.0
10	LASER RADIAL	6420	NSSC	Lucy McCaig		1145	38.16	4	0.06.18	10.0
11	LASER	122461	NSSC	David Hitchins		1099	37.16	4	0.06.35	11.0
12	LASER RADIAL	142208	NSSC	?		1145	38.122	4	0.08.04	12.0
13	COMET	473	NSSC	Terry Jones		1207	31.43	3	0.06.27	13.0
14	LASER	7	NSSC	Julian Dobson		1099	38.38	4	0.07.57	14.0
15	LASER	46237	NSSC			1099	36.24	3	0.13.23	15.0
16	LASER RADIAL	91329	NSSC	Penelope Duncan		1145	RET			24.0
16	RS 200	582	NSSC	Michael Veale	Mike Rosier	1046	OOD			24.0

 

Race 4 was held over the same course – with minor mark repositioning.
 

First across the line, midway between bank and shore, was Ed Rollestone in his Laser 4.7 with Thomas.H-S next at the pin end. Ed .T was next closer to the shore with Sean.B next to cross. Just behind them Alan.S who had been alongside Rupert, until the latter got into a clash with Thomas Beck (Topper 4.2) – and came off worst.- finally got not a bad start and soon tacked off to port correctly.

By the end of the first leg, from behind the Island, Ed.T was leading from Jonty.F and Alan.S had just gone ahead of Thomas.H-S but they were pursued by quite a pack of close up boats. For this race the breeze had dropped of quite a bit and Alan began to pull out a bit from Bill Waites (Laser full rig) who was by then ahead of Zoe.Mc and Ed.R. By the end of the first lap the order was Ed.T first, Jonty.F second, Alan.S third,Bill.W fourth and Zoe.Mc fifth.

 

Individual Lap positions, throughout the race as per the spreadsheet below:-

Race 4

Posn	Class	Sail No	Lap 1	e time	Lap 2	e time	Lap 3	e time	Lap 4	e time	Lap 5	e time	Posn
1	Finn	595	E Thorburn	8.01	E Thorburn	16.46	E Thorburn	24.46	E Thorburn	33.48	E Thorburn	43.33	1
2	Laser R	192842	J Freeman	8.40	J Freeman	18.58	J Freeman	27.15	J Freeman	38.28			2
3	Streaker	1700	A Simmons	9.30	A Simmons	19.16	A Simmons	28.02	A Simmons	38.41			3
4	Laser	26	B Wates	9.37	B Wates	19.41	B Wates	28.13	B Wates	39.53			4
5	Laser R	64200	Z McCaig	9.48	D Hitchens	20.06	T Harland-Smith	28.26	T Harland-Smith	40.42			5
6	Laser 4.7	207462	E Rollestone	9.54	T Harland-Smith	20.25	R Smith	28.30	R Smith	40.35			6
7	Streaker	1681	R Smith	9.58	Z McCaig	20.26	Z McCaig	28.51	Z McCaig	41.07			7
8	Laser R	72341	T Harland-Smith	10.04	R Smith	20.29	J Dobson	29.22	J Dobson	40.54			8
9	Laser	7	J Dobson	10.05	J Dobson	20.44	S Beevor	29.53	S Beevor	40.55			9
10	Laser	122461	D Hitchens	10.15	E Rollestone	21.46	E Rollestone	30.17	E Rollestone	42.27			10
11	Laser	46237	S Beevor	10.25	S Beevor	21.53	L McCaig	30.22	L McCaig	41.58			11
12	Laser	179808	L Johns	10.53	L McCaig	21.57	D Hitchens	30.4	D Hitchens	42.09			12
13	Laser R	142208	D Murley	10.55	D Murley	22.12	L Johns	31.4	L Johns	42.50			13
14	Laser R	6420	L McCaig	10.58	L Johns	22.16	D Murley	31.45	D Murley	44.32			14
15	Comet	473	T Jones	11.15	T Jones	22.30	T Jones	32.4	T Jones	44.15			15
16	Topper 4.2	4764	T Beck	13.42	T Beck	26.16	T Beck	41.27	T Beck	Finished			16

 Lap 2 saw no change in position among the front four boats but David Hitchens went from tenth place up to sixth, passing Thomas.H.S, Zoe.Mc, Rupert.S and Julian Dobson (Laser full rig) on the way. By the end of the next lap he was back, down the pan, to twelfth place. Rupert.S lost a one place to lie eighth just ahead of Julian.

 

Lap 3 again saw no place changes among the front four but Rupert gained another two places to lie sixth behind Thomas.H-S positions they each held to the finish. Positions for the rest of the fleet remained the same for the final lap.

 

At the finish the order was Ed.T with Jonty second, Alan third, Bill fourth and Thomas fifth – that is to say that Ed went on to do another circuit of the pond.

 

 With elapsed times corrected and handicaps applied the result was a win for Ed Thorbun, with Jonty Freeman second, Alan Simmons third, Ed Rollestone fourth and Thomas Harland-Smith fifth.

                                                     R4 - 10/11/2019

Rank	Class	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	PY	Elapsed	Laps	BCE	Points
1	FINN	595	NSSC	Ed Thorburn		1051	43.33	5	0.00.00	1.0
2	LASER RADIAL	192842	NSSC	Jonty Freeman		1145	38.28	4	0.00.31	2.0
3	STREAKER	1700	Lancing	Alan Simmons		1128	38.41	4	0.01.17	3.0
4	LASER RADIAL	26	NSSC	Bill Wates		1145	39.53	4	0.01.56	4.0
5	LASER 4.7	207452	NSSC	Ed Rllestone		1207	42.47	4	0.02.46	5.0
6	LASER RADIAL	72341	NSSC	Thomas Harland-Smith		1145	40.42	4	0.02.45	6.0
7	LASER RADIAL	64200	NSSC	Zoe McCaig		1145	41.07	4	0.03.10	7.0
8	STREAKER	1681	NSSC	Rupert Smith		1128	40.35	4	0.03.11	8.0
9	LASER RADIAL	6420	NSSC	Lucy McCaig		1145	41.58	4	0.04.01	9.0
10	COMET	473	NSSC	Terry Jones		1207	44.15	4	0.04.14	10.0
11	LASER	7	NSSC	Julian Dobson		1099	40.54	4	0.04.28	11.0
12	LASER	46237	NSSC			1099	40.55	4	0.04.29	12.0
13	LASER RADIAL	179808	NSSC	Lewis Johns		1145	42.50	4	0.04.53	13.0
14	LASER	122461	NSSC	David Hitchins		1099	42.09	4	0.05.43	14.0
15	TOPPER 4.2	4764	NSSC	Thomas Beck		1416	41.27	3	0.06.15	15.0
16	RS 200	582	NSSC	Michael Veale	Mike Rosier	1046	OOD			24.0

 

Somewhat variable conditions this morning, with a steady blow gradually fading away into the second race of the day –somewhat sooner than had been forecast.

Alan.S 1700

PS.This blog is much delayed due to week long problems with my Computer – now, hopefully, fixed and up and running again.