Results / Open Penarth YC - 15/07/2012
The first race on Saturday started in 20-25 knots of breeze, and Graham
Sanderson was an early leader followed by Steve Cook and Nick Bolland.
After several capsizes and place changes the eventual order was Nick
Bolland followed by Jamie Mawson. The next race saw Steve Cook go hard
right to take the race from Bolland, with more capsizes and nosedives
behind them.
The wind increased to 27 knots for the last race which prompted some of
the fleet to call it a day, leaving Bolland and Mawson to fight it out.
In a shortened race of just one lap, it was Bolland first and Mawson
second.
Despite forecasts of 30 knots plus for Sunday, the racing was held in a
more reasonable 15 knots, allowing for proper racing to take the place of
the survival tactics of the previous day. Bolland took first place again,
with his brother Steve making an appearance in second place. N Bolland
took the lead again in Race 2, but on the second beat Mawson took
advantage of a shift to the right and took the lead at the windward mark
and held it to the finish. Another race was scheduled, however no-one in
the fleet seemed to have read their sailing instructions and sailed in
after the second race, resulting in the whole fleet scoring DNC for the
last race. Ooops. This left the results unchanged with Nick Bolland a
worthy winner having shown consistant speed in all conditions.
380 Nick Bolland Draycote Water SC 7 1 1 2
1 1 2 6
319 Jamie Mawson Ulley SC 11 2 2 3 2
3 1 6
479 Steve Cook Stokes Bay SC 18 3 4 1 6
4 3 6
364 Grahame Saunderson BSC 22 4 3 4 6
5 4 6
411 Steve Bolland Bristol Corinthian YC 25 5 5 6
6 2 6 6