Daring’s dash capped by Murrell (From Falmouth Packet)

Daring’s dash capped by Murrell

12:40pm Friday 26th June 2009

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On nearly the longest day of the year with a cracking breeze and sunshine, competitors arriving at the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club Committee Boat for the start of racing anticipated rather longer courses than were set. In the IRC Class A yachts, Con Mulcahy's Shenanigan had the best start but it was Damien Bloor’s larger Daring which powered up the first beat.

Martin Eddy's Bluenose stood on longer on starboard tack and gained when tacking on to port to the first Mark and this set the pattern for subsequent Classes. However the Mark had been placed where the wind was fickle and later starters closed up.

Daring was never headed on the water and crossed the finish line first but on handicap, John Murrell's Macavity did enough to beat Daring for first place and take over the lead in the Points Series from J & V Cunliffe's Supersonic going into the last Series race next week.

John Beavis’ Tresillian V had a very good race but didn’t quite beat Daring on handicap.

In the Sportsboats, Proper Job of Simone Kennett led at the first Mark but was beaten on handicap at the finish by Sword of M Brooks.

The closest race was in the J24 fleet with several place changes on the beat and the run out into the bay to zone mark. Boats in this fleet were virtually all together at the mark but on the ensuing beat Phil Samuel’s Jethro had moved slightly ahead with Ben Peters Just Wind and Walter Amos’ Soma II covering each other close behind. These positions remained on the leg to the finish.

One of the yachts which has raced the longest in the Port, namely Jemalda of JA Muirhead had an excellent start in Class E yachts and held on to this position but eventually finished second on handicap, splitting the usual front running GK24s Sidewinder and Popincoota.

In the St Mawes ODs, Dave Ryeng in Rainbow was another boat to find the left hand side of the first beat paid handsomely and finished well ahead of Jeremy and Rachel Dunn in Kelpie. The same thing took place in the Multihulls fleet where David Healey’s Flying Circus gained an enormous lead to win and again in the Sunbeams where Jeff Martin in Saucy Sally had a good lead to finish first. Final Points positions in all Classes for the this second series will be resolved in the last race of the Series next week.

Race results - IRC Class A: 1, Macavity (J Murrell); 2, Daring (D Bloor); 3, Tresillian V (J Beavis). J24 Class: 1, Jethro (P Samuel); 2, Just Wind (B Peters); 3, Soma II (W Amos). t Mawes OD: 1, Rainbow (D Ryeng); 2, Kelpie (J & R Dunn). PY Class E: 1, Sidewinder (K Hansen); 2, Jemalda (JA Muirhead); 3, Popincoota (Jane Goddard). Sunbeams 1: Saucy Sally (J Martin); 2, Wendy (J Pickup). Multihulls: 1, Flying Circus (D Healy); 2, Alderney Race (C Gladwell). Sportsboats: 1, Sword (M Brooks); 2, Proper Job (S Kennett).

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