Shanklin Sailing Club

Racing starts at 9.30am.

There is just one race on Sunday due to the Rowing Regatta. It is a handicap so any boat can take part. However since everybody must be finished by 10.45am it is unlikely that Picos will be able to finish in time.

The rowing regatta starts at 11am.

The course will involve the Yaverland post and possibly the round weather buoy which is half a nautical mile, SSE of the post.

Our finish line will be a transit of the race box and Buoy B.

As soon as you finish the race please head straight back to the beach.

I have attached a possible course map with the finish line marked in grey.

Just in case you don't know what the post looks like, here's a reminder.

Unfortunately I am not able to make it!

Dreadnought wrote:Just in case you don't know what the post looks like, here's a reminder.

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It was a great weekend, I had always wanted to see the post up close and personal, hopefully there will be some posts I can compare this to in North Devon at the Sport Nationals.

Sounds like you had some pretty bad luck with the wind this morning. Will try and run the race again later in the year if possible.

Make sure it is when you guys are on the North Island.

No, you had your chance and you blew it.

I think we should hold it at 9.30 on Wednesday morning. I am sure there will be lots of people able to make that.

No Didn't blow it was one of the front runners. The wind blew it or should I say didn't.
Wednesday at that time will be fine for me.

Yaverland Race Report by 1907

A slow start. Not much wind today. I am towards the back of the pack.
We are just drifting about.
This has got me feeling that this could be a looooong race.
Most of the fleet has gone in near the coast hunting for wind.
What to do?
The tide is with us so I am going to stay out in the deep water.
Slowly my boat inches through the pack towards midfleet respectability.
Now all the fleet have gone in by the coast. I am all alone here out in the deep.
How I would love some wind out here!

Fifteenth, fourteenth.
Poco a poco. Little by little.

And then the wind came!!

Thirteenth, twelfth, eleventh, tenth, ninth.
No doubt about it, my boat is the fastest on the water

Eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth.
The leading group of five break away from the peloton, tearing past Sandown pier.
There are some tricky sailors in the group.
But there are all hugging the coast.
And there's more wind out here.
And there's more tide out here.

Fourth, third, second.
Yaverland mark is no longer a fuzzy dot in the distance.
It is coming into clear view.
A tidy turn here and a podium finish is possibility.

And what's this?
Why is the safety boat in such a hurry?
I can't see that anyone has capsized especially not at the head of the fleet.
They are coming this way.
"What do you mean, abandoned?" I hear myself say or words to that effect.

Shanklin SC has a strict thirty five minute rule and if no marks have been rounded in that time
the race is abandoned. Just a few minutes more. Just a few minutes more.
Still it was a cracking sail and as the local fishermen would say, it was one that got away.

I wouldn't say "strict".