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This year's Ladies Helm race was triumph of tide over wind. The departure from Yarmouth began with a light breeze which weakened to a mere zephyr. Many gave up and resorted to the iron topsail as the tide prevented the rounding of marks. The course had to be shortened but through focused perseverance, use of a tidal wind and encouragement from Mark, Amanda Pirie steered blush to win the Ladies Helm race for a second time. Well done Amanda. |
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The Yarmouth rally has a history unsurprisingly for the time of the year, of being beset frequently by gale force winds and equinoctial rain storms. The 2011 Yarmouth rally will be remembered as one of the hottest weekends of the year with record breaking temperatures, light winds and wall to wall sunshine.
The Yarmouth rally was always going to be heavily subscribed and Rally officer Chris Glanton had the unenviable job of finding moorings for more than 27 boats on the Harold Hayles pontoon, plenty of other crews in addition, having booked themselves space on the walk ashore moorings. Chris managed to identify and manoeuvre boats in to slots with the precision of a watchmaker co-locating his finely machined pieces. He also managed to sustain a smile throughout!
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A breezy offwind run for home.
Yacht H/C Elapsed Time Corr. Time Position
Tigerfire 0.906 01:27:00 01:36:02 1
Dreamtime 0.962 02:00:46 02:05:32 7
Stargazer 0.943 01:40:12 01:46:15 4
Firefly 0.945 01:48:05 01:54:22 6
Lady Panache 0.950 01:37:00 01:42:06 3
Sandpiper 1.017 01:43:00 01:41:17 2
Time Out 0.979 01:50:00 01:52:22 5 |
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Solent Rally Timed Passage 2011
A good breeze initially gave some good racing with the tide turning and a fickle wind from Hill head. This required some patience and careful tacking which produced a very close finish resulting in a tie for first place.
Sandpiper made good time but started 2hrs ahead of the start gate and had the fair tide all the way.
Yacht H/C Elapsed Time Corr. Time Position.
Leda of Hamble 0.921 3hrs 42mins 4hrs 1min = 1
Tigerfire 0.906 3hrs 38mins 4hrs 1min = 1
Stargazer 0.943 4hrs 19min 4hrs 34mins 4
Whistler 0.950 4hrs 16min 4hrs 29mins 3
Sandpiper 1.017 4hrs 15 min 4hrs 11mins (5)
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Here's my very untechnical write up for the Cherbourg Rally :-) - Nicki
Incompetent crew (me) aboard Stargazer. Cherbourg Rally
 Apparently, just about everyone knows about the debacle that was my passport search, prior to the Cherbourg Rally and it wasn't until Thursday lunchtime that a courier arrived with my beautiful (not!) new passport in his clutches and I could let out a sigh of relief at the ebb of that particular anxiety and start to ride the crest of a new one.
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