Upper Tamar Lake Sailing Club race report — Sunday, July 28

Cup Six

BOB Sampson and Sue Murray gave a rare outing to the RS200 on another bright day, a little cooler, with gusty winds that varied a lot in direction.

They started well back in a fleet of 12 that was led over the line by the Commodore’s Aero 5.

Even at Pinkie, the most northerly point on a fine fisher-free course set by officers of the day Mike and Viki Herbert Coulson, Linda Spiller’s and Jane Anderson’s Laser Radials were ahead of the RS200.

But by the end of the lap, Sampson was benefiting from the dinghy’s 20 square meters of sail area and had taken the lead.

Three Laser Radials followed, with Anderson and eventually Nathan Pollard passing Spiller. Then came the Aero, after that Rob Spiller’s Streaker and Paul Whybrow’s Solo a little ahead of John Savage’s sister boat.

The leading Bosun was Cilla Gilbert and Brian Pollard’s, John Dabbs and Sally Wills having had mainsail problems at the start.

Vicki Duncalf’s Topper toured the course in 11th; Paul Petvin brought up the rear. This was the pattern of the three-lap race in which there were only a few changes of position.

The handicaps put the Sampson/Murray RS200 and the Hilton Aero 5 down and the Streaker, the Bosuns and above all the Topper, up. The winner was Anderson.

Winner: Jane Anderson (Laser Radial); Runner-up: Nathan Pollard (Laser Radial); 3rd: Bob Sampson and Sue Murray (RS200); 4th: Linda Spiller (Laser Radial); 5th: Robin Spiller (Streaker); 6th: Vicki Duncalf (Topper); 7th: Cilla Gilbert and Brian Pollard (Bosun); 8th: John Dabbs and Sally Wills (Bosun); 9th: Adam Hilton (Aero 5); 10th: John Savage (Solo); 11th: Paul Petvin (Gull)

Retired: Paul Whybrow (Solo)

Sailboat Six

THERE was a little more wind, a little more consistent too for the afternoon race.

The John Dabbs/Sally Wills Bosun, now with added Commodore (Adam Hilton), was a nose ahead at the start except that it was pushed the wrong side of the buoy by Jane Anderson’s Laser and the fast starting Topper of Vicki Duncalf. It ended up setting off last.

The RS200, fourth over the line, had got the lead by Middle on the way up the lake and stayed there.

The Laser Radials were next, in the order of Jane Anderson, Nathan Pollard, Linda Spiller except when Nathan Pollard got ahead of Anderson for a while. Brian Pollard and Cilla Gilbert in the club’s Bosun followed for a couple of laps before Rob Spiller got ahead of them. A fine sail from the Bosun’s skipper got him the victory on corrected time which also put Robin Spiller ahead of Linda Spiller by four seconds!

Winners: Brian Pollard and Cilla Gilbert (Bosun); Runner-up: Vicki Duncalf (Topper); 3rd: Jane Anderson (Laser Radial); 4th: Nathan Pollard (Laser Radial); 5th: Robin Spiller (Streaker); 6th: Linda Spiller (Laser Radial); 7th: Sue Murray and Bob Sampson (RS 200); 8th: John Dabbs, Sally Wills and Adam Hilton (Bosun); 9th: Paul Petvin (Gull)

Thanks were expressed to Viki and Mike Herbert-Coulson who ran the races and to Mandy Pollard for the photographs.