Report from Julian Forrester, Luna
Weather: Fine, gentle breeze from (mostly) SE
As in any decent beauty pageant, and in recognition of Halycone’s new skipper, Ed Morris, the finishing order is given in reverse order. Thus:
Halcyone, Thia, Hermes, Luna, Catriona, Circe, Dione.
The RO, on board Circe, issued a number of courses, hampered by wind shifts in the half hour before the start. He settled on H5, a course avoiding the Clynder shore (we may never learn why) and which took us from Z to A, a long run along the Shandon side and up to F and back through Z and repeat except for F read G.
The fleet divided quite early on into the usual suspects in front and the other usual suspects behind. Your correspondent, part of the latter, was unaware of any shifts in the order of the former through the race, only of a fickle wind which blew and did not blow, and a falling tide.
It appeared from the back that better progress was to be made the further offshore. At least such allowed Luna to claw back a place at Hermes’ expense and thus finish mid-fleet. Everyone else finished, it appears, pretty much as they began. Any corrections to this rather lazy assumption most welcome.
Also most welcome during the race was the sight of our erstwhile Convenor on Athene’s shakedown cruise during which it seemed that nothing was going wrong, not even with a shackle.
(Editor: The results in a less beautiful, more traditional form:
1 Dione, 2 Circe, 3 Catriona, 4 Luna, 5 Hermes, 6 Thia, 7 Halcyone.)
President: