CH Marine Autumn Series at the Royal Cork Yacht Club - Day 5
by Claire Bateman 26 Oct 2014 20:14 GMT
25 October 2014
Another great day of sailing on Saturday to wrap up the finale of the CH Marine Autumn Series at the Royal Cork Yacht Club.
The forecast wind was W/SW 14 to 24 knots and nobody could dispute that it was incorrect. Whitesail 1 and 2 and Class 4 were with RO David O'Brien and team who set up a line down off Whitegate and sent off Class 4 first, having waited while the Brittany Ferries Bretagne passed inward bound on her way to Ringaskiddy. The Class were a little bit unfortunate that an anchored vessel decided to up anchor and do a 360 degree turn leaving the fleet to get out of her way which they did with alacrity. Simultaneously WS2 were also starting and they two had to get out of the ship's way,
Class 1 then went for their start. Indulgence went for a pin end start but wasn't quite fast enough and got caught on starboard by the wily Michael Wallace sailing Felix. The first mark was No. 10 and Yoshi made a mistake and overstood the mark by a good distance and had to return.
Your scribe's researcher then went out to watch the 1720s sailing. They were doing windward/leeward courses across the harbour at great speed so much so that the third race had a yellow flag flown to indicate they would use smaller JIbs and small spinnakers.
Meanwhile Classes 1, 2 and 3 sailed outside the harbour. The first race was a windward/leeward course. The second race was windward/leeward with a two sail reach into Western mark and then into the harbour where Sparetime was anchored off the Cage to finish the fleet.
All in all a splendid day of racing that left the sailors exhausted but exhilarated and in fine fettle coming ashore for the presentation of the day prizes and later to the overall prize giving dinner which proved to be a total sell out, a resounding success, and a great end to this superb Autumn series.
Full series results can be found here.