Flushing Sailing Club: Macavity holds lead from the start (From Boating Cornwall)
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Flushing Sailing Club: Macavity holds lead from the start
Phil Samuel arrived at the starting zone with all the courses and flags ready for the start of Flushing Sailing Club Hine-Downing Series race, writes Harold Martin.
The starting zone near to Trefusis Point became very crowded as nearly 50 boats manoeuvred waiting for their classes to start.
The port end bias to the line encouraged the fleet to go to the pin end of the line leaving the committee in relative peace.
G class, the best fleet racing in the club, according to them, reported that the course was ideal, starting with a dead beat to the Waterloo mark close under the eastern shore of Carrick Roads.
This meant that near the shore the wind was very flukey at sea level so that those with topsails profitted from the cleaner air high above the water. The next leg was a dead run to the FBC mark at Trefusis point and then another beat to the windward mark by St Mawes castle.
This was followed by a spinnaker run to the finish in the dying breeze but helped by the full force of the incoming tide. In the IRC fleet the first beat decided the result because those who went off on port gained enormously from those on starboard. Macavity took the lead and kept it all the way round until the finish with Scorpion enjoying the conditions to come second in the competitive fleet.
M class: 1st, Flying Circus, D Healey; 2nd, Alderney Race, C Gladwell.
Q class: 1st, Macavity, J Murrell; 2nd, Scorpion, G Davies; 3rd, Miss Whiplash, Denning/Hurst/Pullen.
V class: 1st, Bubbly, L Trenoweth; 2nd, Whimsey, C Perkins; 3rd, Caprice, B Trenoweth.
E class: 1st, Hooligan, R, Edwards; 2nd, Hawk, C Bell; 3rd, Popincoota, A Grose.
U class: 1st, Mary Boon, J Cruise; 2nd, Redgauntlet, W Hunt; 3rd, Socrates, D Day.
W class: 1st, Wild Child, N Chamberlain; 2nd, Incite, M Leech; 3rd, Sweet Friday, L Chamberlain.
G class: 1st, Miss Agnes, M Rangecroft; 2nd, Wagtail, D Owen; 3rd, Katy, S Grigg.
B class: 1st, Victory, Muirhead/Carne; 2nd, Winnie, A Williams; 3rd, Rita, Watkins/Peters.
