Short delay

Big waves make racing tricky at the International 14 PoW cup

Wednesday dawned wet and windy with local weather stations recording 40 knot gusts. Race officer Malcolm Woolcock gave a two hour postponement which allowed the wind to settle to 6-12 knots from the west but there were still very large waves from the south giving upwind surfing on port and awkward lulls in the troughs on starboard.

The fleet got away cleanly on the second start. The wind was shifty up the first beat with some light patches. Alistair Richardson and Dan Johnson led at the first mark followed by a tight group of James Fawcett and Dave Dobrijevic, Mike Lennon and John McKenna, Jarrod Simpson and Tim Paul, Geoff Carveth and Adrian Murphy and Andrew Penman and Archie Massey.

Penman gybed early and gained down the left. Richardson stretched his lead followed
now by Carveth, Lennon, Penman then Fawcett. This order continued until the third lap when Penman had a slight edge of speed and pointing over Lennon and moved into third then gybed inside Carveth on the next run and carried a gust past him. On the final beat Fawcett had the best of the shifts and moved up to third.

Results so far:

Race four

1-Alistair Richardson/Dan Johnson
2-Andrew Penman/Archie Massey
3-James Fawcett/Dave D
4-Geoff Carveth/Adrian Murphy
5-Mike Lennon/John McKenna
6-Jarrod Simpson/Tim Paul

Overall

1-Martin Jones/Andy Rice
2-Mike Lennon/John McKenna
3-Alistair Richardson/Dan Johnson
4-James Fawcett/Dave Dobrijevik
5-Andy Fitzgerald/Simon Marks
6-Andrew Penman/Archie Massey
7-Andy Partington/Tom Partington
8-Charlie Tavner/Ed Clay
9-Jarrod Simpson/Tim Paul
10-Geoff Carveth/Adrian Murphy