{"id":17505,"date":"2022-10-27T02:41:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T02:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest.jboats.com\/?p=17505"},"modified":"2023-02-03T03:32:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:32:53","slug":"sunny-shortsnshades-hamble-winter-series-week-ii-maybe-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jboatssouthwest.com\/sunny-shortsnshades-hamble-winter-series-week-ii-maybe-maybe-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Shorts’n’Shades Hamble Winter Series Week II? Maybe… Maybe Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Hamble<\/a>,\u00a0England<\/a>)- The second weekend of this year’s\u00a0Hamble<\/a>\u00a0Winter Series, was a two-day affair, to incorporate the\u00a0Hamble<\/a>\u00a0IRC Autumn Championship. Forty-six teams had entered the five races which, were programmed over the two days, with a mix of windward \/leeward and round the cans. The three races planned for Saturday looked very ambitious with a forecast of lovely sunshine and 2-4 knots from the NW. Indeed, some competitors stayed ashore expecting there to be no racing at all. The Race Team, led by Peter Bateson, are made of sterner stuff though, and armed with their SPF-30 sunscreen, they left the\u00a0Hamble<\/a>\u00a0on time to “give it a go.”<\/p>\n They set up just inshore of 4V,\u00a0Hamble<\/a>\u00a0Yacht Services buoy, laying a short course to the NW, ready to start on time. However, a 20-degree wind shift, just as the start sequence was about to get underway, led to a postponement and re-set of the course. 4Q, John Fisher was one windward mark and a laid buoy was set for a shorter leg for classes 2-4. The course for Class 1 was for 3 miles, with the lengths scaling down to 2.2 miles for class 4. All classes got away cleanly but it wasn’t long before the very light breeze became even lighter. With the help of the NW going tide, everyone got to the windward marks and then turned to run back against the tide. Those who gybed inshore made gains. The Race Committee sensibly decided to shorten at the leeward mark and all boats eventually made it. The last finisher took just over two hours for the two legs of the course. The CV waited around until 15.00, but although the modest SW breeze arrived at Lymington and then Lepe, it never made it to the race area and racing was abandoned for the day.<\/p>\n Sunday was sunny too, but this time the predicted wind was 11-14 knots. Coming from just east of south and occasionally reaching 18-19 knots, the two planned races were completed in good time.\u00a0<\/p>\n In IRC Class 1, Louise Makin’s\u00a0J\/111<\/a>\u00a0JOURNEYMAKER II proved that she could go in the light stuff and the breeze by scoring three first places. “A champagne day,” said Louise. Cornel Riklin’s\u00a0J\/111<\/a>\u00a0JITTERBUG was second on 7 points.<\/p>\n In the sixteen-strong IRC Class 2, Mike and Susie Yates’\u00a0J\/109<\/a>\u00a0JAGO took second for the weekend. “Yesterday I got sunstroke,” laughed Susie, “and today I was blown away!”<\/p>\n IRC Class 3 was won by Becky Walford’s\u00a0J\/92<\/a>\u00a0BRENDA’s J, while Simon Shillaker’s\u00a0J\/92S<\/a>\u00a0JAMBO took third place.\u00a0<\/p>\n Back in the HRSC Clubhouse, there was another well-attended prize-giving. Force 4 Chandlery was the official day sponsor, represented by Julian Cox. They were joined by Kingfisher Ropes and B&G in giving away vouchers and goodie bags to those on the podium. Commodore Serena Alexander presented the glassware. Thanks for this contribution from HRSC’s Trevor Pountain.\u00a0\u00a0Sailing photo credits- Paul Wyeth\/ PWPictures.com<\/a>\u00a0 Follow\u00a0the Hamble Winter Series on Facebook here<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0For\u00a0more Hamble Winter Series sailing information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Hamble,\u00a0England)- The second weekend of this year’s\u00a0Hamble\u00a0Winter Series, was a two-day affair, to incorporate the\u00a0Hamble\u00a0IRC Autumn Championship. Forty-six teams had entered the five races which, were programmed over the two days, with a mix of windward \/leeward and round the cans. The three races planned for Saturday looked very ambitious with a forecast of lovely sunshine and 2-4 knots from the NW. Indeed, some competitors stayed ashore expecting there to be no racing at all. The Race Team, led by Peter Bateson, are made of sterner stuff though, and armed with their SPF-30 sunscreen, they left the\u00a0Hamble\u00a0on time to “give it a go.”<\/p>\n They set up just inshore of 4V,\u00a0Hamble\u00a0Yacht Services buoy, laying a short course to the NW, ready to start on time. However, a 20-degree wind shift, just as the start sequence was about to get underway, led to a postponement and re-set of the course. 4Q, John Fisher was one windward mark and a laid buoy was set for a shorter leg for classes 2-4. The course for Class 1 was for 3 miles, with the lengths scaling down to 2.2 miles for class 4. All classes got away cleanly but it wasn’t long before the very light breeze became even lighter. With the help of the NW going tide, everyone got to the windward marks and then turned to run back against the tide. Those who gybed inshore made gains. The Race Committee sensibly decided to shorten at the leeward mark and all boats eventually made it. The last finisher took just over two hours for the two legs of the course. The CV waited around until 15.00, but although the modest SW breeze arrived at Lymington and then Lepe, it never made it to the race area and racing was abandoned for the day. In IRC Class 1, Louise Makin’s\u00a0J\/111\u00a0JOURNEYMAKER II proved that she could go in the light stuff and the breeze by scoring three first places. “A champagne day,” said Louise. Cornel Riklin’s\u00a0J\/111\u00a0JITTERBUG was second on 7 points.<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nSunday was sunny too, but this time the predicted wind was 11-14 knots. Coming from just east of south and occasionally reaching 18-19 knots, the two planned races were completed in good time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nIn the sixteen-strong IRC Class 2, Mike and Susie Yates’\u00a0J\/109\u00a0JAGO took second for the weekend. “Yesterday I got sunstroke,” laughed Susie, “and today I was blown away!”
\nIRC Class 3 was won by Becky Walford’s\u00a0J\/92\u00a0BRENDA’s J, while Simon Shillaker’s\u00a0J\/92S\u00a0JAMBO took third place.\u00a0
\nBack in the HRSC Clubhouse, there was another well-attended prize-giving. Force 4 Chandlery was the official day sponsor, represented by Julian Cox. They were joined by Kingfisher Ropes and B&G in giving away vouchers and goodie bags to those on the podium. Commodore Serena Alexander presented the glassware. Thanks for this contribution from HRSC’s Trevor Pountain.\u00a0\u00a0Sailing photo credits- Paul Wyeth\/ PWPictures.com\u00a0 Follow\u00a0the Hamble Winter Series on Facebook here\u00a0 \u00a0For\u00a0more Hamble Winter Series sailing information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jboats_news_reviews"],"yoast_head":"\n