Neyland Yacht Club

Races 12 & 13 of the Frostbite Series

Sunday 2^nd March 2025

Neyland Yacht Club

Frostbite Series 2025

Races 12 & 13 – 2nd March 2025.

 

The 13 assembled boats for the penultimate day of the Frostbite series were welcomed by mild temperatures, clear skies, a light breeze from the east and a freshly ebbing very high spring tide.

A simple sausage-shaped course was set between Batts buoy to windward of the club start/finish line and a dropped buoy within the club moorings to leeward - thus keeping the course in the tidal backflow eddy running up Neyland shore and out of the powerful tidal flow towards the channel.
Division 1 started cleanly, only Alan G in the Dart 18 started away from the unfavoured pin end, enabling him to cross the fleet on port and lead around the first mark.  Keira and Simon T followed in the 29er, opting to head into the strong outgoing tide in the channel once on the run, to make the most of the “free” conveyor belt.  The other boats in Division 1 were closely grouped at the beginning of the run, hindering each other more than not, with Alec D in her classic ILCA 6 eeking out a gap by the leeward mark.  The beat from the leeward mark was undertaken in perhaps the lightest breeze of the day, the slower boats holding the small gap to the faster Dart 18 and 4th mode-ing 29er.  For their second lap the fleet was generally still together in the now strengthened F1.5 which had veered close to SE at the east end of the course, this enabled the 29er to gain on the first half of the run but lose most of that back on the return on starboard gybe to the leeward mark, allowing the Supernova of Geoff T to take the lead on the water on the final beat to the finish.  The Supernova took the gun, followed by the 29er and then the Dart 18, however on corrected time the winner was Alec D sailing her ILCA 6, followed by the Supernova and Eloise C in her ILCA 6 taking 3rd.

Division 2 was led away from the line by Anwen S in her Tera Pro with the other 3 in the division very close behind.  James and Jesse N, the youngest crew on the water, in a Feva XL Club took the lead on the early part of the run, but gybed inshore out of the outgoing Tidal flow too early giving the baton back to Anwen S.  The Feva XL chipped away on the beat to the finish finishing one second ahead of the Tera Pro -  on corrected Anwen S took the win, followed by Isabelle N in 2nd, the Feva XL in 3rd and Dylan W in 4th.

The breeze had settled from the ESE for the second race of the day requiring the windward and leeward marks to be adjusted to give as true as possible course

In Division 1 Roger C in the RS Vareo had a textbook start, having a small gap from the gun.  The 29er broke away from the fleet immediately, tacking away from the shore in search of clear wind, this paid off as they led the fleet around the first mark… again the bunch seemed to hinder each other more than help.  The Supernova of Geoff T was quickest to the leeward mark having a slender lead over a tightly packed bunch.  The wind was up a little on the beat, not enough to hike but mainsheets were being squeezed on, definitely suiting the non-trapeze boats in the fleet.  Over the remaining 2 laps the Supernova stretched away from the packed bunch, more so on the beats.  Geoff T took the win on the water and on corrected, with Vaughan E and Paul B in the Wayfarer just pipping Alec D to second.

Division 2 in the second race of the day was led to the first mark by Isabelle N in her Tera Sport after judging the right hand shift after the start perfectly.  Dylan W in his ILCA 4 had the better line on the run but the Feva XL, with its spinnaker set sailed around the outside to lead on the water by the completion of the run.  The slight increase in breeze was to the pleasure of the fleet for the uneventful remainder of the race.  James N in the Feva XL took line honours on the water and corrected time, Isabelle N 2nd and Dylan W 3rd.

Thank you to the volunteers - Paul Harries and Rebecca Bell running the racing from the starting hut and Simon Goodwin and Gavin Sims for providing safety boat cover.

Results
Race 12
Division 1
Rank Class SailNo HelmName CrewName PY Corrected

1 ILCA 6 165267 Alec Denny 1154 0:23:56

2 SUPERNOVA 357 Geoff Turner 1075 0:24:15

3 ILCA 6 202408 Eloise Cusden 1154 0:24:57

4 WAYFARER 10041 Vaughan Everitt Paul Bell 1109 0:25:18

5 ILCA 6 213791 Noah Sutton 1154 0:25:45

6 RS VAREO 161 Roger Cusden 1093 0:26:41

7 STRATOS 307 Jo Musson Gareth Davies 1103 0:28:21

8 29ER 838 Keira Edwards Simon Turnbull 895 0:30:00

9 DART 18 6400 Alan Gregory 822 0:33:39

Division 2
Rank Class SailNo HelmName CrewName PY Corrected

1 TERA PRO 2442 Anwen Sims 1364 0:13:23

2 TERA SPORT 3230 Isabelle Nuttall 1445 0:13:34

3 FEVA XL --- James Norris Jesse Norris 1244 0:14:39

4 ILCA 4 215649 Dylan Williams 1213 0:16:10

 

Race 13
Division 1
Rank Class SailNo HelmName CrewName PY Corrected

1 SUPERNOVA 357 Geoff Turner 1075 0:27:33

2 WAYFARER 10041 Vaughan Everitt Paul Bell 1109 0:27:58

3 ILCA 6 165267 Alec Denny 1154 0:27:59

4 ILCA 6 213791 Noah Sutton 1154 0:28:19

5 ILCA 6 202408 Eloise Cusden 1154 0:28:31

6 RS VAREO 161 Roger Cusden 1093 0:29:33

7 STRATOS 307 Jo Musson Gareth Davies 1103 0:29:35

8 29ER 838 Keira Edwards Simon Turnbull 895 0:34:43

9 DART 18 6400 Alan Gregory 822 0:35:45

Division 2
Rank Class SailNo HelmName CrewName PY Corrected

1 FEVA XL — James Norris Jesse Norris 1244 0:23:37

2 TERA SPORT 3230 Isabelle Nuttall 1445 0:26:21

3 ILCA 4 215649 Dylan Williams 1213 0:31:11

4 TERA PRO 2442 Anwen Sims 1364 0:33:37