Island Sailing Club Evening Race Series - Day 9

The 9th race of the Evening Race Series was looking in doubt at 17.00 as the South Westerly breeze was continually having gusts of 28-32 knots in the Solent.

The wind started moderating and was recording 18-20 knots half an hour before the scheduled start, a check over the live risk assessment documents, and with the flag Yankee being displayed racing start on time for all classes. The late leaving from Southampton of two passenger cruise liners and a couple of car carriers added to the navigators' duties for the evening.

The courses were mainly windward-leeward type crossing to various buoys on the bramble bank and back, The highlight of the evening was the Flying Fifteens class, the 1947 Uffa Fox designed keelboat planning across the Solent, surfing on the waves with their spinnakers flying.

Harriet Butler in Comfortably Numb leading the first round was eventually caught by William Heritage in Freddy Flintoff who held off various challenges to end victorious on the day.

Class 1 - Fast Handicap results:

1st Oxygen III
2nd Sumo
3rd Whooper

Class 2 – Medium Handicap results:

1st Joie de Vivre
2nd Crakajax
3rd Mouflon Noir

Class 3 – Sonar results:

1st Barry Byham
2nd Andy Cassell
3rd Steve Hargreaves

Class 4 - Slow Handicap results:

1st Ziggy
2nd Xantz
3rd Genesee

Class 5 – X One Design results:

1st Gin
2nd Blue Phantom
3rd Aora

Class 6 – Flying Fifteen results:

1st Freddy Flintoff
2nd FFreefire20
3rd Fifty Fifty