GAMES 2 & Acorn Trophy March 2012- Results & Report

15 Skippers brought their radio Marbleheads to Abbey Meads lake for the Met & Southern District Ranking Event, sailing for the Acorn Trophy and the second GAMES round of 2012 in bright sunshine and un-seasonal warmth.

The forecast Easterly light winds materialised as light NE’ly forcing a course realignment. The course was a simple windward leeward with an offset spreader mark after the windward mark and a leeward gate. The start and finish line halfway up the 150 metre course with two rounds. The morning saw big shifts, at times from SE to N gave Hugh McAdoo, the PRO, some problems setting a fair start line. The last few races before lunch saw the wind back to the north, which made a very reaching course, but with enough shifts to the east to make tactics difficult for the skippers and a bit of a nightmare for the race management team. The results reflected the unpredictability of the conditions with 7 different winners

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Images of the event can be found HERE