London & South East Topper Traveller at Medway Yacht Club
by Andrew Baker 13 May 20:16 BST
9 May 2021
The London and South East Toppers joined Medway Yacht Club on Sunday, 9th May for a Topper Open event as part of their Traveller series. The gales and rain of the previous day had cleared away and the morning was bright and sunny as 19 visiting boats and one local boat arrived.
After a socially-distanced briefing the Toppers left to follow committee boat, Saxon, to Hoo Bay for the morning racing. The wind was a moderate southerly to south westerly breeze which made for difficult course setting between the shore and the moorings to set a decent beat on the triangular course. As the starting sequence began the wind gods were not favourable, with a 45 degrees shift meaning that the windward mark could be reached on a single tack. With a minute to go to the start the AP flag was hoisted and the whole course had to be reset including moving the committee boat.