Club Champs decided

In the end Jason won the P Class easily with Annie away playing soccer. Brodie had a comfortable overall win in the Optimist but the pack are getting closer. The Starling went down to a countback victory to Olivia.

There were a couple of errors in the C3 and C4 (C4 was also Club Champs CC7) race results which have now been corrected. The placings have not changed for the series though. One error was simply reading a a handwritten 7 as a 2 (14:52:42 instead of 14:57:42) when entering the results for the Lasers. Thanks to the eagle eyed error spotters. Please let me know if results look a bit weird as this kind of error is very easy to make, especially with some people's writing, but I'm not one to complain.

The racing today was great to watch with lots of lead changes through the races and very close finishes in many of the fleets. Win of the day has to be Rob Ebert's come from behind in the last 50m to pip Jacko on the line by 0.5m or less ("it was the weed" we heard Jacko saying).

Club Champs 2012-2013

Honorable Temporary Race Secretary

Mark Foy Results

The Trophy Day Mark Foy was sailed on Saturday 30th March. Easter was always going to be a bit of a challenge for getting good numbers of boats on the water. The Laser class did the club proud though. The wind was light and vaguely from the north but it hung in there for the race.

The recent WTYA event at Thames was also plagued by light winds, with only one race sailed on Monday and none on Sunday. At least when the wind is light on the lake we don't get any annoying waves that stop our boats just when we are starting to get them moving, then make the sails flap around so they don't develop any power. Even worse is the tide. A number of boats were drifting off to Cape Colville with the ebbing tide and needed towing back to the club.

Back to the Mark Foy races. Saturdays results are found below. There were some excellent close finishes. Ray Oxborrow held off the fast closing in Lasers (well slowly closing in really) to win the Senior division and Annie won the Junior classes. The first link below is to the Trophy Day Race and the second is to the combined Mark Foy results to get the top senior Mark Foy sailor and the top junior. The combined series uses the HYC Highpoint scoring system, so the highest score wins. Scott and I ended up on equal points but he finished just in front of me on Saturday so wins on count back.

Trophy Day Mark Foy 2012-2013 season

Overall Mark Foy Champions 2012-2013 season

Club Champs Update

The second race (P14) on the 6th April 2013 (reserve club champs day) will be a club champs race for the Starling, P Class and Optimist fleets.

Given that there is enough sailors, wind, and water this will allow the Starling and P Class fleets to have 5 races in their club champs and the Optimists to have 4 races. Normally 5 races is the minimum number needed to complete a club champs series but for the 2012-2013 season the HYC Race Committee has altered the rules for the Optimists to allow 4 races to be sufficient for this series.

Unfortunately there will be no club champion for the 3.7 Class. Due to the combination of poor numbers in their fleet and very low lake levels limiting their ability to sail, they have completed only a couple of races in this series.

Congratulations to Blake Buxton in the Laser and Jack Ninnes in the Zephyr.

John Barnard, temporary Race Secretary.

Club Champs as of 23rd March 2013

Whats the aggregate?

The Aggregate Cups are awarded fo the best results in the following races combined - A Series, B Series, C Series, Points Series, Twilight Series. The results used are without any handicap applying. The scoring system is the HYC highpoint system (highest score wins). With this scoring the amount of points the winner gets varies with the size of fleets with about 6 points for a win in a fleet of three boats and nearly 12 points with a fleet of 30 boats. If all the starters finish the last finisher gets 2 points, with all the other places getting points in between 2 and the winners score. Sailors who fail to finish get 1 point and those that did not compete on the day get zero. There are only 5 more scoring races scheduled this season but in some fleets the winning position is not completely decided (e.g. P Class) and one of the boats currently lying 2nd or 3rd could sneak in with a few first placings over the next two weeks.

Aggregate so far

C Series Update

Races C3 and C4 completed today. The kind of day that gives race officers stomach ulcers with the breeze not settling into one quarter of the compass till after 1500hr. Things improved enough for the second race of the day to be included in the club champs series. Extra care is needed with the lake so low with a couple of collisions related to boats suddenly stopping and doing pirouettes around their centreboards. Below are the results to date with close points in many of the fleets. Have a look at the P Class with 1st 2nd and third all one point aparts and the Lasers with Adam in his Radial rig with a slight advantage. There were some new old names in the Starling fleet with two of the regular 3.7 sailors scaling down to the Starling class as the low lake level makes 3.7 sailing hazardous for their long skinny foils.

C Series so far

As long as five or six races are sailed there will be one discard to conme which is sure to shake up the placings a bit.