Day 3 - Victory Class first off

Today was one of windshifts, gusts and lulls in a mostly south-westerly breeze that averaged 8-10 knots, until a stronger west-southwesterly that reached 18 knots, became established mid afternoon. While there was plenty of sun, particularly later in the day, the early light airs caused the first start, for the Victory class in honour of its 80th anniversary, to be postponed.

The postponement signal was removed four minutes after a more consistent breeze sprang up at 1120, although even then, there was a lull in the couple of minutes before the start that saw a number of boats struggle to get up to the line. At the gun, John Scammell’s Zinnia was best placed of the boats at the inshore end of the line, with Liz Ballard’s Unity catching up quickly in a gust, while Team Terry’s Minx, Brian Clarke’s Zephyr and Gareth Penn’s Zircon were further offshore in more breeze.

At the finish, however, it was Janet Dee and Shaun Hopkins’ Variety that led the fleet, 94 seconds ahead of Jim Downing’s Ziva, while Zinnia followed just eight seconds behind in third.

In the VX Ones-  Zhik broke Grpahfruit Graphic's winning streak to win the fleet and a thrid on corrected in the Sportsboat Class.

The Redwings are very close,  with QUAIL and HARLEQUIN trading places, with the former leap frogging to the top of the leader board with a win today.

4/8/2014 21:05