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Dabchicks RS Tera Train and Race

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Eastern Tera Sailors Head West.

The bank holiday weekend saw the Tera sailors of the East heading to Dabchicks Sailing Club at West Mersea for the first Train and Race weekend of 2014, sponsored by Virtual Rigger. 7 Pros and 20 Sports were to contest the Open Meeting on the Sunday.

Saturday was a training day where we used the opportunity to look at tides and how best to cope with them. Also the light winds that would be prevalent for the weekend. Not pinching too much and keeping the boat going through the water, whilst looking for the darker patches for more pressure was the order of the day.

Sunday dawned brighter than Saturday but would there be more wind? It certainly didn't seem likely with a fitful breeze from the SW blowing down the river to start. The first race got away and it was anyone's guess whether to look for more pressure or see where the most tidal benefit was. Keeping your head out of the boat and looking around was key. Matt Smith faired best in the Pros and Mersea local Joshua Davies prevailed in the Sports.

The second race was abandoned just as the Sports started as a huge windshift came through taking the breeze to a more Southerly direction. After a quick reset of the course the racing got away again but with definite bands of pressure coming through. Five minutes of decent pressure seemed to be followed by five minutes of relatively little. Absolute concentration and not getting too separated from the fleet was key.

Matt again proved the victor in the Pro Fleet with Matthew Taylor taking the Sports. With the breeze becoming increasingly fitful could we get a third race in before boredom set in? In a brave move the race team went for it and managed to get both starts away in a period of pressure before it went light again. Much debate whether to shorten at the windward mark became unnecessary as a cracking Force 4 sea breeze kicked in accompanied by another big wind shift to the SE. Luckily with the tide the course was still just a beat and run and everyone was able to finish in short order. Matt made it a clean sweep in the Pros and James Oakley took the Sports race.

The final fun for the day was an informal race in from the race course to the launch area. Everyone had a cracking sail in surfing on some big waves as we came in through the creeks into West Mersea.

When the results were worked out Matt Smith obviously won the Pros followed by Archie Hainsworth in second and Lucy Greenwood in third. In the Sports, consistency paid, and despite not winning a race Oscar Cubitt took the win followed by Matthew Taylor then Joshua Davies. Issy Taylor-Jones was first girl in 10th. Sam Blake got the endeavour prize for finishing 6th at his first Tera event.

Well done to all for completing so many races in such tricky conditions. Our thanks to Simon Butterworth of Virtual Rigger for generously sponsoring the prizes. Paul Jackson our PRO who also spent Saturday running around sorting out boats and gear. Sue Green for running the beach and Jude and Jay Pearce for setting up the event.

Next round of the Eastern Travellers Series is at Royal Harwich on Saturday 17th May. All welcome.

Full results can be seen here. Here

Steve Greenwood's photos can be seen here.https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/

Results

Sailed: 3, Discards: 0, To count: 3, Entries: 8, Scoring system: Appendix A

Tallie Number	Class	Sail No	Club	Helm Name	R1	R2	R3	Total	Nett
6	Tera Pro	984	Alton water SC	Matt Smith	1.0	1.0	1.0	3.0	3.0
3	Tera Pro	2528	Alton water SC	Archie Hainsworth	3.0	2.0	2.0	7.0	7.0
2	Tera Pro	2526	Alton water SC	Lucy Greenwood	2.0	3.0	5.0	10.0	10.0
5	Tera Pro	2372	Dabchicks SC	Charlie Pearce	6.0	4.0	4.0	14.0	14.0
1	Tera Pro	2226	Bewl Water	Caitlin Atkin	7.0	5.0	3.0	15.0	15.0
4	Tera Pro	2315	Alton water SC	Max King	5.0	6.0	6.0	17.0	17.0
7	Tera Pro	2364	RHS	Josie Ruffles	4.0	7.0	7.0	18.0	18.0
27	Tera Sport			Dylan	9.0 DNC	9.0 DNC	9.0 DNC	27.0	27.0

Tallie Number	Class	Sail No	Club	Helm Name	R1	R2	R3	Total	Nett
14	Tera Sport	416	Alton Water SC	Oscar Cubitt	2.0	2.0	3.0	7.0	7.0
21	Tera Sport	1747	Stour SC	Matt Taylor	5.0	1.0	2.0	8.0	8.0
16	Tera Sport	2661	Dabchicks SC	Joshua Davies	1.0	3.0	6.0	10.0	10.0
24	Tera Sport	2261	Grafham Water	James Oakley	6.0	4.0	1.0	11.0	11.0
25	Tera Sport	2612	RHS / Grafham Water	Jack Oakley	4.0	5.0	5.0	14.0	14.0
23	Tera Sport	2472		Samuel Blake	3.0	7.0	8.0	18.0	18.0
26	Tera Sport	676	RHS	Tristan Richardson	8.0	6.0	4.0	18.0	18.0
11	Tera Sport	2440	Bewl Water	William Caiger	11.0	9.0	7.0	27.0	27.0
13	Tera Sport	418	Alton Water SC	William Carron	7.0	8.0	13.0	28.0	28.0
22	Tera Sport	2201	Royal Harwich	Issy Taylor-Jones	9.0	13.0	10.0	32.0	32.0
	Tera Sport	1668	Bewl Valley SC	andreas Purse	12.0	11.0	9.0	32.0	32.0
8	Tera Sport	1638		Blake Tudor	19.0	10.0	11.0	40.0	40.0
9	Tera Sport	2169	Bewl Valley SC	Marcos Purse	13.0	17.0	12.0	42.0	42.0
	Tera Sport	1058		Harvey O sullivan	10.0	12.0	21.0 DNF	43.0	43.0
18	Tera Sport	2156	Bewl Water	Henry Gillett	14.0	18.0	14.0	46.0	46.0
15	Tera Sport	2138	Alton Water SC	Natasha Cubitt	15.0	14.0	17.0	46.0	46.0
17	Tera Sport	220	Aldeburgh YC	William Doble Thompson	16.0	19.0	16.0	51.0	51.0
10	Tera Sport	1199	Dabchicks SC	Lucy Aird Brown	17.0	16.0	18.0	51.0	51.0
12	Tera Sport	2584	Bewl Water	Becky Caiger	18.0	15.0	21.0 DNF	54.0	54.0
19	Tera Sport	315	Alton Water SC	oliver Johnson	20.0	20.0	15.0	55.0	55.0

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