With the series results already determined, Rhonwen and Hugh split up and offered their services as personal trainers for the final race of the weekend. While Rhonwen crewed for Graham Ashby, his daughter crewed for Hugh – and guess who came out on top! Yes it was Graham and Rhonwen
As for the rest of the weekend, the weather had been at its most cruel with wind swinging and shifting significantly, but also leaving massive holes for many boats to get dumped in and left behind. One boat that couldn’t be shaken off was Mike Moore, who was sailing in the handicap fleet, and secured two first and a second to win the trophy. His reason for not doing so well in the last race was that he was more relaxed because he had already won the series, the fact that the strengthening winds gave the 400s some spectacular spinnaker reaches may have been closer to the truth. Also, a loose twinning line resulted in Mike being flattened on his final reach.
Again, Roy and Kayla took the trophy for the most capsizes! There seemed to be several bumps and bangs – Roy and Steve, Mike and Scumper, Sam and Mike (and those are the ones I noticed!).
With 26 boats taking to the water over the weekend, all in all it was a gud un! Why not come and join in?
Weekend results
HANDICAP ISEL CUP
PN Boat Helm Class 1 2 3 4 Pts
1 3473 M MOORE FF 1 2 1 5 4
2 1072 R DAWSON RS400 4 4 3 1 8
3 1049 M SOMERVILLE RS400 5 3 7 2 10
4 1148 N CURRIE RS400 7 5 4 3 12
5 937 W CARRUTHERS RS400 10 6 6 4 16
6 167828 S HALL LASER RADI 2 RTD 8 7 17
7 1298 S HUNT RS400 6 RTD 5 DNS 23
8 173813 P BURNELL RS400 9 7 10 RTD 26
9 913 JoHARDIE RS200 DNS DNS 2 6 28
10 91029 R BLACKBURN RS400 11 8 9 RTD 28
11 161866 M LORD LAS 3 9 DNS DNS 32
12 400 T KNOWLES RS300 OD DNS DNS RTD 36
13 70142 T SMITH MS DNS 1 DNS DNS 43
14 6905 N GARRISON D 18 DNS DNS OD DNS 45
15 40892 J HEMINGWAY TOP 8 DNS DNS DNS 50
16 10 A BAINBRIDGE TOP DNS DNS 11 DNS 51
17 13791 P SMITH GP DNS DNS DNS RTD 54
18 9558 P HODGKINS B14 DNS DNS RTD DNS 54
19 168995 G HEMMINGWAY RSFEVA RTD DNS DNS DNS 55
Points for RTD = 13 12 12 12
Points for DSQ = 13 12 12 12
Points for DNS = 20
3 races to count
GP COMMODORES PRIZE
PN Boat Helm Class 1 2 3 4 Pts
1 13905 H GODFREY GP 1 1 1 2 3
2 13867 D NICHOLSON GP 2 2 DNS DNS 12
3 13401 G ASHBY GP DNS DNS 4 1 13
4 13733 A HODGKINS GP DNS DNS 2 DNS 18
5 13655 N LEWIS GP DNS DNS 3 DNS 19
6 12324 D TODHUNTER GP 3 DNS DNS DNS 19
7 813467 D WRIGHT GP DNS DNS 5 DNS 21
Points for RTD = 4 3 6 3
Points for DSQ = 4 3 6 3
Points for DNS = 8
3 races to count
ORSOVA CUP
PN Boat Helm Class 1 Pts
1 70142 T SMITH MS 1 1
2 38184 K BELL MIR RTD 3
Points for RTD = 3
Points for DSQ = 3
Points for DNS = 3
1 races to count