Hamble Winter Series Report- Week 3

(Hamble, So’ton, England)- The 43rd running of the Hamble Winter Series continued for week 3. It proved to be a somewhat drama-filled weekend.

“This is Hamble Race Control. The race is not live. We have exceeded the wind limit!”

Well, that’s what the PRO would have said if the CV WetWheels had gone out on Sunday morning for the 3rd week of the Hamble Winter Series. Fortunately, for the PRO’s- Peter Bateson and Ian Bullock- the approach of Storm Ashley had been so well forecasted and anticipated that the decision to cancel Sunday’s racing was taken by around 4 pm on Saturday. Some, including Gavin Howe, had already reported they would not race. Gordon Mclean on Marks 1 mark boat for the one-design fleet was already relishing a dry copy of the Sunday Times!!

So, that left Saturday for the Hamble One-Design Championships, and PRO Ian Bullock went out to get “at least four” races in with Sunday’s impending doom in mind. This was the second weekend of the championship so the scores would be added to the previous weekend for the overall results.

J/111 Class
In the J/111 class, Louise Makin and Chris Jones’s JOURNEYMAKER II continued their form from Race 4 and banged in four bullets to take the class with 9 points! Paul Griffiths’s JAGERBOMB couldn’t find the form that gave them 3 firsts in the first weekend. They had to settle for four seconds and a 13-point second place. JOLENE beat Ella Wollman’s FREQUENT FLYER into third place.

When Ian Bullock was in the HRSC Clubhouse, JOLENE reported that they had “taken their battens out of their mainsail and moused their halyards for the winter!”

Thanks for the contributions from Trevor Pountain

For more Hamble Winter Series sailing information
https://www.hamblewinterseries.com/