GW Smith Trophy 1

‘The first race of the second Thursday evening series, the GW Smith Trophy, was an interesting race in some wind which changed just before the start from near northerly to near southerly.  However the OOD, Rupert Livesey, was quick off the mark and reversed the course from K to L, which gave a good beat up stream and run downstream.

There was good turnout of 11 boats with representatives from five different classes.  Ken Duffell and Matthew in their Merlin eventually pulled out a good lead, but not enough to beat the N18 of Charles Fox and Robert Blakebrough on handicap, with David Baker  and Jim Green in the Albacore third, Ros Warwick-Haller fourth in her Laser and Tim and Ed Medcalf 5^th in their Firefly, so a good spread of classes in the top places.  Racing was close all round and the wind stayed around for most of the time giving plenty to talk about over a drink and a tasty supper.’

Report and results – John Adams