By Adam Hilton

Upper Tamar Lake Sailing Club race report – Sunday, September 15

CUP TWO

DAVE Perrett, Jane Anderson and Vicki Duncalf, regular fast starters, led away from the Home 2 startline into moderate west winds interspersed with vicious gusts. 

More remarkable was Brian Pollard’s second place at the first buoy, West (Natasha Routley crewing his Bosun). 

Dave Perrett’s Solo overtook the Bosun definitively at the top of the Lake and Linda Spiller’s Radial also passed before they rounded Inlet. 

A short sharp beat took them to new buoy Seagull and a run to Dam Green followed during which any boat capable of planing, planed. 

Robin Spiller retired with a broken batten.

Results: 1 Jane Anderson (Laser Radial); 2 Vicki Duncalf (Topper); 3 Dave Perrett (Solo); 4 Linda Spiller (Laser Radial); 5 Brian Pollard and Natasha Routley (Bosun); 6 Paul Anderson (Laser Radial); 7 Liam Routley (Laser Full). Retired: Robin Spiller (Solo)

CUP NINE

HALF the fleet started on starboard tack and half on port, but it wasn’t clear which was the better choice; Nathan Pollard, Dave Perrett and Brian Pollard benefitting from starboard tacking; Linda Spiller and Jane Anderson doing well out of port tacks. At West and still at Pinkie the fleet was bunched, but from then on Nathan Pollard established a lead, as the helm of the fastest boat should, with Jane Anderson following. The handicap gave her the victory.

Brian Pollard had another Bosun to compete with, John Dabbs’ (with Adam Hilton); the yellow boat led the red almost throughout.

Results: 1 Jane Anderson (Laser Radial); 2 Nathan Pollard (Laser Full); 3 Linda Spiller (Laser Radial); 4 Dave Perrett (Solo); 5 Brian Pollard and Natasha Routley (Bosun); 6 John Dabbs and Adam Hilton (Bosun); 7 Liam Routley (Laser Radial).

Adam Hilton ran the morning race and Vicki Duncalf the afternoon. Mandy Pollard took the photographs.