A lovely afternoon for a sail. There was cloud over The Cobbler and the wind was steady for a lot of the time.
On the water Race Officer Barrie Choules chose a long course, visiting many of the marks in the loch, beginning with a leg to windward to B, off Silvers.
Teal was early at the starting line and obliged to circle. Catriona got the best of it with Dione and Halcyone to leeward. Teal quickly recovered from her start and took the lead with starboard tack advantage. Wind was variable, however, and she was a close second at the mark with Dione chasing hard. Teal was super slick launching her spinnaker for the offwind leg to F, off Shandon Church and took back the lead. Dione had trouble with her third sail, which compromised her challenge.
The next leg upwind to Clynder. Again Teal dropped to second due to the variability of pressure in the Gareloch. The leg back to the starting area a reach where overtaking is not usually possible. We were just in time for another round. Again Catriona and Teal swapped places. Wind on the approach to B was outrageously variable and Teal was round first. Dione, meanwhile, had made a poor rounding of the mark at the starting area and dropped a place to Halcyone.
There were no further changes of place at the front. Unaccountably, Halcyone let Dione past again on the reach to the finish.
1 Teal, 2 Catriona, 3 Dione, 4 Halcyone, 5 Hermes, 6 Zephyrus.
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