35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 6
Published 13:14 on 7 Dec 2016
35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 6
Saturday's miserable autumn rain cleared up in time for the weather gods to deliver a day of champagne sailing for Sunday's Hamble Winter Series race.
A very shifty north-westerly welcomed competitors to a game of snakes and ladders, with oscillating windshifts providing plenty of opportunity for position changes in the large fleets. From a startline near hamblewinterseries.com buoy, fleets beat up towards the Hamble, with the bigger boats using Hamble Point as their windward mark. IRC 3 and 4 rounded Bald Head as their first mark, with the nearby shoreline adding some extra tactical challenges.
In IRC 1, Roger Bowden's Nifty continued her winning form with another first place, taking her eight points clear at the top of the overall results.
In second this week was Toby Lambert's MAT12 Night Owl 2, who finished less than 30 seconds ahead of Richard Patrick's First 40...To read the rest of the report click here
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