Salcombe Yacht Club brought the start forward on Saturday April 17th to allow sailors to be off the water in time to celebrate the life of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh in the afternoon. The earlier start did nothing to diminish the enthusiasm of the 33 sailors who took to the water in a Force 3 East North Easterly on an ebbing tide.
Race Officer, David Greening, set the fleets on a course to the Yalton Mark in order to provide a tactical beat then to Blackstone, a Y mark of Port Waterhouse followed by Millbay to a shortened finish.
In the handicap fleet the RS Elite of Martin and Cheryl Beck led off the starting line, slicing through the ebb tide. The Yawls split between the Portlemouth side and the Salcombe side, with Mike Knowles and Nicki Bass staying on local turf by beating to Ditch End before crossing the tide, resulting over a healthy lead over the Yawls of Mike and Karen Whitehouse and Geoff Gilson and Chris Spencer Chapman. Four Yawls hung on doggedly to the coat tails of th
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