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Results - 2009

Start delayed at the last minute due to a wind shift and then a quick course change to accommodate. Right at the committee boat end of the line at the start and once in some clean air made good progress but then it looked like the boats further up the line were getting better wind.  Quite a long beat to the first mark (Royal Thames) and after about halfway looked pretty good on the fleet and kept up with some of the bigger boats.  Minor issue with the GPS route picking the wrong buoy but did not loose too much.  Spinnaker up for the leg to DAKS and again seemed to be keeping up with the higher rater's but as we got closer into the Island the wind started to drop off.  Good drop at the mark and headed up to Hamble Yacht Services but again the wind dropped off as we approached and once round seemed to die altogether for a while which let all the smaller boats close up behind us.  Wind filled in again after a bit and a beat  to Quinnel with a short spinnaker leg to the finish at Royal Thames.    Tried to clock the rest of the fleet finishing behind us to see if the low rater's were close enough but obviously they weren't as we got first on corrected by over four minutes.
Royal Southampton Yacht Club - Double Handed Series - Class 2: IRC Race No. 1   Spring Double Saturday 4th April 2009 - Start 10:40:00 Yacht Type Sail No. TCF Finished Elapsed Corrected Posn Points Comments Moondog Laser 28 1259T 0.906 14:11:43 03:31:43 03:11:49 1 1 Woodwind Hunter Sonata 8429 0.824 14:37:50 03:57:50 03:15:58 2 2 Firefly Contessa 32 903 0.868 14:30:45 03:50:45 03:20:17 3 3 Juliette J24 4105 0.860 14:34:15 03:54:15 03:21:27 4 4 Salamander Sigma 33 4501 0.914 14:20:51 03:40:51 03:21:51 5 5 With Alacrity Sigma 38 8338 0.985 14:04:57 03:24:57 03:21:53 6 6 Domaine J32 636 0.971 14:08:07 03:28:07 03:22:05 7 7 Eric The Red Mustang 30 6896 0.924 14:19:03 03:39:03 03:22:24 8 8 J Arrow J-92 29477 0.967 14:09:49 03:29:49 03:22:57 9 9 Pyxis X-332 5963 0.960 14:11:31 03:31:31 03:23:03 10 10 The Flying Fish Laser 28 1276 0.904 14:24:51 03:44:51 03:23:16 11 11 Moonshine First Class 8 7458 0.904 14:27:42 03:47:42 03:25:50 12 12 Spirit of St George Elan 33 7750 0.975 14:11:27 03:31:27 03:25:57 13 13 Mestengo Mustang 30 5508 0.919 14:29:25 03:49:25 03:30:50 14 14 Razoo Jeanneau 32 8386 0.948 14:25:59 03:45:59 03:34:14 15 15 Pastime of Hamble She 36 4054 0.905 14:38:49 03:58:49 03:36:08 16 16 Blue Moviez X-332 17099 0.985 14:19:38 03:39:38 03:36:20 17 17 Little Spirit Beneteau First 375 5007 0.936 14:31:56 03:51:56 03:37:05 18 18 Scorpio Hanse 342 9824 0.976 14:31:29 03:51:29 03:45:56 19 19 Redshift J-80 8045 0.966 14:26:44 03:46:44 03:47:06 20 20 Black Jack First 31.7 6900 0.956 - - - - 50 DNC Googl-Eye Trapper 300 3766 0.839 - - - - 50 DNC