Upper Tamar Lake Sailing Club race report — Sunday, July 1

Cup Four

THE very useable south easterly winds meant starting towards the dam with Dam Red as the buoy to round before beginning the run up the lake.

Penny Abbott (Laser Radial) and Adam Hilton (Solo) were over start line two at the gun.

Abbott turned back but Hilton was first round Dam Red, blissfully unaware that he was disqualifying himself!

Sue Murray (Laser Radial) led at Inlet and continued to fight off the full-sailed Lasers of Bob Sampson and Nathan Pollard who followed.

At Pinkie the drizzle continued, as it did throughout, and the order was still Sue Murray, Bob Sampson, Nathan Pollard, the outlaw Hilton Solo, Paul Whybrow’s legal Solo, the recovering Penny Abbott, John Dabbs’ Gull and Cilla Gilbert at the helm of Brian Pollard’s Bosun.

But by the end of lap two, Sampson had managed to get speed out of his big sail and had overtaken Murray while Pollard did likewise on the third lap.

When the handicaps were applied, the corrected times gave the Gull the victory by a minute and Murray a lead over Bob Sampson of five seconds!

Winner: John Dabbs (Gull); Runner-up: Sue Murray (Laser Radial); 3rd: Bob Sampson (Laser Full); Joint-fourth: Paul Whybrow (Solo) and Nathan Pollard (Laser Full); 6th: Penny Abbott (Laser Radial); 7th: Cilla Gilbert and Brian Pollard (Bosun)

Disqualified: Adam Hilton (Solo)

Tamar Six

NATHAN Pollard, now with a Radial sail and in a slightly stronger but much drier wind, got away first with Bob Sampson second, Linda Spiller (Laser Full) third, Penny Abbott fourth, Brian Pollard and Cilla Gilbert next and Sue Murray last.

Abbott overtook Spiller at Dam Red, then Sampson passed Nathan Pollard at the end of the run to Middle, squeezing him at the buoy.

At the end of the lap, Sampson was pulling away, Abbott and Spiller were catching up Nathan Pollard with Murray not far behind.

By lap three, Sampson was miles ahead, finishing two minutes in front of Nathan Pollard, enough to overcome his handicap disadvantage and give him first on corrected time.

The other Lasers continued to scrap, with Spiller finishing third and Murray managing to get over the line a couple of seconds in front of Abbott.

Winner: Bob Sampson (Laser Full);

Runner-up: Nathan Pollard (Laser Radial); 3rd: Sue Murray (Laser Radial); 4th: Penny Abbott (Laser Radial); 5th: Linda Spiller (Laser Full); 6th: Brian Pollard and Cilla Gilbert (Bosun)

Thanks were expressed to Jane and Paul Anderson, who ran the races and wrote these reports and to Mandy Pollard for the photographs.