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Hat-trick Avoided
Wednesday Wonders Summer Series 2019-20 Race 19 (26 Feb 2020)
A rainy Wednesday morning coupled with a strong wind warning which saw winds of 25 to 30
knots with a maximum gust of 39 knots created the possibility of 3 abandoned races in a row.
Almost right on cue the clouds rolled away, the sun made an appearance and the wind eased. A
hat-trick of abandoned races had been avoided. Nevertheless there were still 2 metre waves
and a southwest to southerly breeze that averaged about 20 knots to contend with – the highest
average wind speed for a race this series. A small fleet of 16 yachts took up the challenge of an
invigorating race around a good course which was, not surprisingly, one of the fastest races of
the series. About 50% of the 9.9 nautical mile course 14 was a beat with the remaining half a
run. It proved to be a good result for some of the “big boats”.
Producing her best start of the series to win Start of the Day with a time of 1 second was
BRANNEW (Clive Sondheim). It was the first podium appearance this summer for each of the
yachts placed 1, 2 and 3. STAMPEDE (Christopher Gendala) not only made this her first win of
the series she recorded the fastest elapsed time. Although SALTSHAKER was 2nd across the
finish line she was judged not to have signed on so BACARDI (Martin Power) was placed 2nd
with ALEX TEAM MACADIE (Jock Macadie) 3rd.
The aggregate top three all sailed this race but their relative positions remain the same and
have done so since race 12. LUSCIOUS (Michael Butler) retains the lead on 33 points with
ESPRIT (Garry Anderson) on 35 points and PEGASUS (Andy & David Lynch) on 38 points.
However SKULLDUGGERY (Garry McCarten) is now equal on points with PEGASUS. By
finishing 4th in this race RAZZLE DAZZLE (Andrew Stopp & Graeme Jones) moves back into
the aggregate top ten after an absence of 4 weeks with ROLLER COASTER (Geoffrey
Simpson), who didn’t compete in this race, slipping from 10th into 11th place.
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WW Summer Series 2019- 20Race 19 Wind Speed & Direction
STAMPEDE has completed 9 races so far this
summer and this is her best result to date. Her
previous best was 12th in race 9 when the wind
averaged about 17 knots. She made a good start to
the race from 15th place only 5 seconds late for her 58
minute handicap. She completed the first 3 legs of the
course in 50 minutes 38 seconds and rounded SYC 4
in 12th place – 15 minutes 39 seconds behind the race
leader. STAMPEDE sailed the last 3 legs of the
course in 35 minutes 44 seconds to be first across the
finish line at 15:54:27. This is the 3rd time this summer
that STAMPEDE has sailed the course in the fastest
elapsed time and she moves from 30th to 24th in the
aggregate – her highest place this series.
BACARDI has completed 10 races this summer and like STAMPEDE this is her best result so
far. She started from 11th place 28 seconds
late for her 49 minute handicap. She rounded
SYC 4 in 9th place after sailing the first 3 legs
of the course in 56 minutes 47 seconds. The
remaining 3 legs of the course were
completed in 39 minutes 19 seconds and she
crossed the finish line at 15:55:34. BACARDI
had started the race only 15 seconds after
WINDSPEED but was able to slowly increase
her lead throughout the race to finish 50
seconds ahead. BACARDI improves her
position in the aggregate by 5 places moving
from 24th to be 17th in the aggregate.
Although there have been a couple of setbacks ALEX has followed a path of continuous
improvement throughout her 9 completed
races this summer. She started this race
from 14th place 16 seconds late for her 56
minute handicap. She rounded SYC 4 for
the first time at 15:19:24 in 13th place only
41 seconds behind STAMPEDE.ALEX
sailed the last 3 legs of the course in 36
minutes 20 seconds to cross the finish line
at 15:55:44 just 77 seconds behind
STAMPEDE. She recorded the 2nd fastest
elapsed time of the race. ALEX moves
from 20th to 14th in the aggregate – her
highest position so far.
The median start time for the race was 12 seconds
with 7 of the yachts starting within 10 seconds or
less of their handicaps and 3 yachts more than a
minute late. BRANNEW won the start to be the 3rd
yacht to win with a time of 1 second.
The 16 yachts started the race 46 minutes 51 seconds apart and rounded SYC 4 within 13
minutes 10 seconds of each other. By the time the last yacht crossed the finish line the gap had
become 19 minutes 7 seconds. On average a yacht crossed the finish line every 72 seconds
way above the average
of 16 seconds recorded
in race 2. The closest
finish in the race was
for 11th place between
MAGIC (Phil Spry
bailey) and FOGGY
DEW (Joe O’Grady &
Frank Hilliard) who
finished 4 seconds
apart.
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WW Summer Series 2012-20 Race 19 Position at Start, SYC 4 & Finish
start SYC 4 finish Linear (finish)
The median elapsed time for the race was 1:46:24
with a range of 65 minutes 7 seconds. As mentioned
earlier STAMPEDE recorded the fastest elapsed time
of 1:26:27 – 3 minutes 17 seconds faster than ALEX.
Only five yachts of the 12 entered in the Century
Class Summer Series contested race 5 of the 6
race event. The race was won by RAZZLE
DAZZLE – her first win of the series. BON VIVANT
(Russell Keays) was 2nd with MAGIC 3rd.
Century Class Summer Series 2019-20 Race 5
PLACE YACHT MAKE SKIPPER ELAPSED FINISH H CAP
1 RAZZLE DAZZLE SWARBRICK Andrew Stopp 1:47:00 15:56:00 0:39:00
2 BON VIVANT S80 Russell Keays 1:55:32 15:56:32 0:31:00
3 MAGIC S&S Phil Spry-Bailey 1:56:50 16:01:50 0:35:00
4 WILLARIE TRITON Graeme Kaufman 2:31:34 16:13:34 0:12:00
5 SALTSHAKER JARKAN Ken Gayler 2:02:47 15:54:47 0:22:00
1:26:27
1:29:44
1:30:10
1:35:35
1:36:34
1:37:24
1:41:46
1:45:49
1:47:00
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1:55:32
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2:31:34
0:00:00 1:55:12 3:50:24
STAMPEDE
ALEX - TEAM…
ESPRIT
BRANNEW
BACARDI
WIND SPEED
PEGASUS
HOT CHIPPS
RAZZLE DAZZLE
SKULLDUGGERY
BON VIVANT
MAGIC
LUSCIOUS
SALTSHAKER
FOGGY DEW
WILLARIE
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WW Summer Series 2019-20 Race 19 Elapsed Time
(Below) WILLARIE was the first yacht to start
and first to round SYC 4. (Left) SKULLDUGGERY
had the 2nd best start of the race – 3 seconds.
BON VIVANT (far left)
and BACARDI (left) were
two yachts that recorded
their best result of the
series by finishing 6th &
2nd respectively.
(Left) SALTSHAKER had an excellent sail but was judged
not to have “signed on”.
(Right) ALEX
& PEGASUS
on their way
to SYC 4 for
the first
time.
MAGIC (left) & FOGGY
DEW (right) had the
closest finish of the
race.
(Far left) HOT CHIPPS
finished 8th & moved to
16th in the aggregate.
(Left) ESPRIT remains
2nd in the aggregate
after finishing 10th.
(Right) LUSCIOUS is on top of
the aggregate.
(Below) Anything to report? Photos
By
Bruce Parry
Ian Whitbread
&
Graham Furness