(Report from the Secretary on Catriona)
An evening of steady wind, Race Officer Iain MacGillivray sent us on a true beat to windward, across the loch to D north of Clynder. The shore end of the line was the favoured place to start, leading to the usual queue. Dione and Catriona were at the back of it. Dione set off across the loch to good effect. Some went up the Shandon shore and prospered. Catriona, with helm Lucy Forrester, seemed to find lulls and headers with every tack. She led Ceres astray for a while.
At the windward mark, Dione, Circe, Ceres, Hermes and Thia were all well placed. Athene and Catriona had work to do on the downhill legs across the loch to G and back to the start. Catriona made a couple of places here. A difficulty with the spinnaker gybe at G put paid to progress for the time being.
There was time for a second round, to D again and back. Dione, heading across the loch, stretched her lead from Circe and Ceres and was not to be caught. Catriona thought to try the Shandon shore. It was better, but not as good as in the first round. The tactic got her past Ceres.
Wind was on the quarter for a textbook course under spinnaker to the finish
1 Dione, 2 Circe, 3 Catriona, 4 Thia, 5 Ceres, 6 Athene, 7 Hermes.
