Sunny day but light variable breeze coming out of Orient bay.Bad news and Essex were on equal points going into the final day.A bit of match racing was in order for the day ,Rob Samways and Sandy doing the honours as race officers.The race started out in about 5 knots but on the final lap to finish the wind died to 1 knot and less .Bad news and Essex exchanged places regularly but Essex held the slight lead to get the first race,Second race was also very light Essex got away nicely to a comfortable lead but then wind died and this saw bad news right on the heals of Essex .Bad news managed to overtake Essex close to the leeward can but a puff coming in from port was noticed a little earlier than bad news and Essex was first to round ,Shortened course was blown.,so this was to finish Essex unfortunately had a bad rounding and tried to keep momentum going by staying on port.Bad news tacked immediately after rounding and managed to find breeze and got in a comfortable win over Essex.So boiled down to the last race to whom would get the GD trophy ;with Essex and bad news on equal points.The breeze finally settled a bit and the final race got away.Essex was well ahead but then at top can the breeze died again.Essex was again slowly hauled in by Bad news.Rob blew shortened course and at this stage the boats had bunched up close together.A slick gybe by bad news inside of Essex saw bad news win just seconds ahead.
Thus GD champions are Luke and Stephen Wagner,just a single point ahead of Essex.The closest GD thus far!!Luke and Stephen also managed to claim the Hunter Trophy (the handicap trophy).The monthly mug belonged to Rob Tarbie on his Extra.Also greatr to see that Tim and Joe Phillips newcomers have claimed the Silver fleet trophy ,sailing consistently better.So well done to them!!
Please realize that the GD results and Hun ter trophy are affected by average points awarded to those sailors that did bridge duty so you will see that certain sailors have a result on the day they did race duty.
Kind regards
Tim Duguid
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