Island Sailing Club Tuesday Evening Series - Race 10
by Chris Thomas 21 Jun 2017 19:09 BST
20 June 2017
This Tuesday Evening the Isle of Wight provided Caribbean sailing weather for 55 boats with a 10kn ESE breeze and an almost slack neap tide.
Having started with a beat to the East, boats crossed the finish line under spinnaker, providing a colourful spectacle for those watching from a packed Island Sailing Club balcony but providing a challenge for the race officers to identify the sail numbers!
In Class 1 Bernard Olesinski’s Xinska and Alex & Andy Moore’s Tilt led the fleet home by a considerable distance on the water but were beaten into 2nd & 3rd places on handicap by Andy Hunt’s smaller Ker 33 Acheron.
Those with knowledge of the local tides took advantage of the changing direction of the stream and the distances between boats were magnified accordingly. In the Sonar Fleet the last boat finished 47 minutes behind the leader ex Paralympic helmsman Andy Cassell.
The XODs were the only class to sail 2 rounds with plenty of crew work allowing James Meaning from Yarmouth in Vexilla to beat regular Jonathan Clark in Gin by mere 6 seconds in a closely contested race.
Race 10 Results:
| Pos | Boat Name |
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| Class 1 ‑ Fast Handicap |
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| 1st | Acheron |
| 2nd | Xinska |
| 3rd | Tilt |
| Class 2 – Medium Handicap |
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| 1st | UKSA J80 003 |
| 2nd | Little Spirit |
| 3rd | Excalibur |
| Class 3 – Sonars |
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| 1st | Andy Cassell |
| 2nd | Barry Byham |
| 3rd | Ian Margham |
| Class 4 ‑ Slow Handicap |
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| 1st | Eeyore |
| 2nd | Jiminy Cricket |
| 3rd | Xantz |
| Class 5 – Flying Fifteen |
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| 1st | Fifty Fity |
| 2nd | Flashback |
| 3rd | Ffuraha |
| Class 6 – X One Design |
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| 1st | Vexilla |
| 2nd | Gin |
| 3rd | Tonic |