Race 6 & 7

Windy SW winds, 20-25 mph.

Photo of The Cornish Contingent

Chose to start half way along the gate today, and subsequently got buried in the fleet on the first beat. Rounded the windward mark with only a handful of boats behind us, but thought hey, its a long race lets get some back...30 boats would be nice.

Had some great reaches, runs and beats and climbed back to the mid/late 20s somewhere by the finish. OK, that is now our discard, we thought, lets do better in the next race...

Dave & Betty finished first Cornish boat in the early 20s and Alan and Sophie felt they were finally getting Cyclone going well.

Race 7
Took off early out the gate, went left and arrived at the mark with a pack of leaders not looking too bad. But the windward mark was absolutely rammed, everyone stacked up together and very little room for port-tackers coming in. Then things went a bit downhill... On the first attempt we failed to round the windward mark, having tacked beneath a few starboard tackers, leaing to us gybing around and having another go. Then, on our second attempt we got t-boned by a port tacker, splitting Kongs gunwale and leaving a big hole in the deck. At least we got round the mark, and finished the race, finishing mid-fleet somewhere and having created a new discard.

Again Dave & Betty finished in the 20s, first RSC boat, followed by Alan and Sophie.

I'm afraid today's scores will rather blow our series result, illustrating just how important consistency is soooo important in a championship. Speaking of which Ben & Jenny Vines scored two bullets today placing him on even points with Rob and Mel Sherrington for the championship.

Fingers crossed the weather will hold for a final show-down championship race tomorrow - but there are concerns that gales may interrupt play.

Team RSC
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