IOM Autumn Race 07: 15th Oct 2024
What a day today, it was never going to be easy, especially when Hugh and I couldn’t agree which direction we should cross the start line towards a windward mark. In the end Robin suggested a course which had lots of marks which confused me, but on the whole we tended to have a beat, a rech and run down all legs! Halfway through the morning the wind filled in from the south, I changed the course to a 5 -7 start and we set off, on a run, rounded mark 1, the “windward” mark, and ran back again to 6. After that I gave up with course setting, changing courses served no useful purpose.
The racing was fairly random, Nigel started off well and faded and John B started the morning badly and improved. Generally it was all fairly close racing with in the end only 5 points covering the top 5 places. Congrats to John B for doing just enough to win the day.