Lymington Town Sailing Club Solent Circuit Series - Race 4
by Iain Sutherland 31 Oct 2005 11:19 GMT
30 October 2005
Luke Wooster’s Laser SB3 Woosterstock revels in the big breeze of LTSC’s Solent Circuit race on Sunday, October 30 © Richard Russell
Sports boats revel in big breeze
With the southerly wind gusting to 30 knots on occasions against an ebb tide, 36 boats turned out for the fourth Lymington Town Sailing Club (LTSC) Solent Circuit race on Sunday (October 30).
In the conditions, a beat to Yarmouth and a run back to the committee boat at Pylewell was testing enough for one cruiser to lose its mast.
However the big breeze was enough to attract six Laser SB3 sports boats out and they revelled in condition which others found fairly miserable. The sports boats get two windward-leeward races and the breeze was such that the course was lengthened for the second race to give competitors more time on the water. Rick Otten continues to dominate the class but the rest are clearly catching up.
Week 4 Results:
IRC Class 1
1, Eclipse V11 (Humphreys 12M) Doug and Clare Hassell
2, Flying Boat (Dehler 39) Stuart Duffin
3, Deuce (Elan 40) Martin Gee
IRC Class 2
1, Zapopan (Sigma 41) John Stanton and Ray Crouch
2, Amadeus (Contessa 34) D A Frith and P D Frith
3, Scoundrel I (Int 6 Meter) Don Wood
IRC Class 3
1, C Lion (Comfort 34) Jon Boyd
2, Minim 3 (Scampi) Oliver Dunne
3, Strider (GK24) Chester Maudsley
Club Handicap
1, Ocean Factor (Oceanis 320) Graham Broomfield
2, Whisper (Contessa 28) Richard Jenner
3, Sea Jay (Contessa 32) Charles Jouning
Folkboats
1, Madelaine, Edward Donald
2, Gap Year, Steve Proffitt
3, FlutterBy, Peter and Liz Tunney
No Spinnaker Cruisers
1, Channel Pilot (Moody 346) Steve Turner
2, Tilikum (Parker 325) Jonathan Housten
3, Hitch-Hiker (Westerly Storm) Peter Bedwell
Laser SB3
First race
1, Wrecked, Rick Otten
2, Sybarite, D Ackers-Douglas
3, Explosion, Jesper Toft
Second race
1, Wrecked
2, Sybarite
3, Woosterstock, Luke Wooster