Following the Open meetings for Lasers and Solos on Saturday, Club racing returned to Bass on Sunday albeit following a 90 minute delay due to the refusal of any wind to turn up.
The first race was the initial round in a new Long Series of class racing. Neil and Judith were on the Bates and, as there was no FF start, decided to combine the two handicap starts and set a simple triangle O-A-B in case the wind died again. Well it didn�t, but was alternating through virtually every point on the compass and filling in and dying at various legs of the course.
Dave & Lynn took the GP win and Joan & Jack in the Graduate the Fast Handicap result. The three boats in the slow handicap fleet were continually changing positions, Katia�s Tera leading initially, then Mik�s Mirror but at the finish it was Poppy in a Topper who took her first win and leads the Bates Series.
The Jubilee Sailing Trust pennant followed but the start line was shifted to give a course A-9-0-B. Here Dave & Lynn took a further win from Val & Ken and the Hardies.
Away from the Club Andy & Lily were contesting the Mirror Nationals in Cornwall finishing an excellent 8th overall including a 2nd in Race 6. It is thought that this was the crew�s first time racing on the sea. Also three Bass boats were contesting the RS400 Northerns. Dave Exley & Crew were third, Mark & Joe seventh and Caroline Exley & Crew ninth.