(Report from Dione)
The first Tuesday night race was blessed with bright sun and a good wind, about F3 from the NW. 7 Garelochs made it to the start (some only just) and faced the perennial issue of this wind direction giving a biased line and a challenge to start on starboard.
In the end most started on port towards the shore end of the line with calls for ‘water to tack’ heard shortly after the gun. The beat across to D off Clynder split the fleet as we chased the best wind & tide, there were various crossings as gains and losses became apparent. Arke thought to emulate Hermes past ploy of sneaking up the Shandon shore but didn’t prosper. Catriona mis-judged a port-starboard crossing and did turns leaving Dione slightly ahead at D.
A great spinnaker run back to G for the gybe that took us back to the start/finish. Not many places changed on the spinnaker legs [despite Catriona having to do yet another turn for hitting the G make while gybing her spinnaker… single-handed to be fair!].
1 Dione, 2 Ceres, 3 Circe, 4 Arke, 5 Catriona, 6 Hermes, 7 Halcyone
