35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 7
Published 13:16 on 7 Dec 2016
35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 7
Despite awaking to biblical rain and the best efforts of Storm Angus, the braver souls in the Hamble Winter Series fleet were rewarded with some champagne sailing. The race team were quietly confident that the high winds seen the night before would moderate in time, and true to form the wind had dropped to a west to northwesterly 10 knots by the end of the day's racing – leading much of the fleet to do hurried headsail changes before the final beat. It was a cold day on the Solent, though – and kudos to the race volunteers who braved the chill in RIBS and committee boats to run some great racing.And the racing was certainly close. In IRC4, Impalas Imptish and Polly crossed the finishing line at exactly the same moment after eight miles of racing.
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