A good strong breeze for the last race of the season. We anticipated an exhausting beat back from Wallet No. 3, but kind hearted Race Officer Wendy Robinson set a shorter course, with the North Eagle as the outer mark, to be visited twice. Nineteen boats on the Stone start line, Kev Knox’s ‘Barcarol’ the only

A Forecast actually anticipating a sea breeze - but when exactly? Quite nice and sunny, but no wind at all at the start, with most boats kedged near the line and the others hovering a long way back after cutting their engines at 5 minutes. Race Officer Paul Su set a longish course, J 8 X, with the option of shortening

A strong Easterly wind forecast - just what was needed to balance up the dominance of light westerlies so far this season. A good Force 5 and a very lumpy sea on the Marconi start line for the 18 boats present, all except Tommy Mills First Class 8  ‘Geronimo’ and Eric Reynolds’ ‘Absolution’ with a reef in th