Miracle National Championship 2025 at Tenby Sailing Club - Day 2
by Hannah Metcalfe-Smith 5 Aug 2025 22:21 BST
2-8 August 2025
Miracle Nationals at Tenby Day 2 © Andrew Clarke
After a Monday that was called off early due to the Storm Floris, today's racing in Tenby featured seriously breezy weather, with some lumpy gusts for good measure. As the fleets made their way out onto the sand to launch, some folks decided (perhaps wisely) to stay ashore.
Race 4
Lilly and Hannah (3805) took the port-hand side of the course and came out at the windward mark first. After promptly putting their spinnaker up, they realised they couldn't hold it to mark 2 and took it down, but not before being passed by Lynn & Nick (4115) and Simon & Keira (4050). They were not able to make back up the places and finished in third position.
Lynn & Nick gave Hannah and Lilly a chance to make up the places when Lynn and Nick took a capsize on the first downwind leg, but it wasn't quite enough. Wayne and Angela has a capsize after submarining and this caused them to drop back to finish in 9th place from 4th.
Father and daughter duo Ian and Mia (4098) had a good first race today, coming in 10th but called it quits after to come in and warm up.
Race 5
Alec Denny and Robert Ffitch (2776) from Neyland SC around the bay were doing well in the second race but a bad gybe caused them to take on a load of water which scuppered the remainder of their race. Marcel and Bella has a great race and were third place around the last mark before a mechanical with their rudder gudgeon breaking in the gybe. This lead to a recovery from the safety boats.
Paul Robinson, sailing with Karen Glisson (4110) were the picture of consistency today with a sixth in both races.
With Monday's racing called off, the lay day planned for Wednesday is now a racing day, with a single race and the crews'/single-handed/non-spinnaker race.