A lovely night of light to moderate winds and sunshine sailing on the Holy Loch, a perfect setting for the dinghy sailing with one boat Killer Bee B14 (Finlay Hurrel and Harris Munns) enjoying the evening and taking the win.
In the Flying Fifteen fleet, Iain Sinclair and Kirsty Brown on Nae FFear had a perfect start taking the lead to the first mark followed closely behind by Woffle (Jim Mclean and Alasdair Marshall) and Efficacious (Tommy and Susan McGeachie). Spinnakers up going round the first mark the three boats had a long run to the second mark in Strone where Nae Ffear held the lead. The battle for second place took a turn in the second round where Woffle lost their second position to Efficacious searching for a fluke wind. On a spinnaker finish with ever decreasing winds Nae Ffear won the first race of series 2.
In the piper fleet the new Series of races this week attracted a healthy turnout of 6 Pipers which enjoyed a fairly steady wind from the north to send them on their way, although things did become more testing to the nerves later in the race when the breeze predictably diminished. Out of the traps early was Jim Campbell’s Leander, which opened up an impressive lead on the first two legs before Fergus Campbell, fresh from returning from his summer holidays, got his crew of Stuart Brown and Lorn Campbell energised to begin their challenge in Tom Piper. As the race progressed, Tom Piper did, indeed take up the running to take over the lead which she maintained to the finish while Iain Hurrel’s Billie, left for dead at the start, made a miraculous recovery to take second place, despite a crew shortage which left Graeme Murray somewhat short of breath at the end of the race after a sterling shift as the sole crewman.
Meanwhile, Whitesail rivals Judicious and Moonlight closely contested the start, with Judicious edging ahead and arriving at the first mark ahead of Moonlight, with Panache following. The run down to Strone saw Judicious rounding first, but with Moonlight close behind. As last week. the order remained the same, but the result on handicap remained in doubt until the end of the second lap, when the wind started to die away. This left Moonlight struggling to keep up, giving Judicious victory by a half minute margin on corrected time.
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