North East Clubs 2005 Late Series Event 1 – Brechin – 23rd October 2005

Brechin was the place to be on Sun 23rd – while it was p….sing down all day in Aberdeen and Dundee, we had a dry overcast day with a light NE wind at Brechin. Ten modern fast IOM’s entered with Skippers from all three of the North East Clubs. The Rygged Handicap system as modified by Brechin was used but as you would expect most of the Skippers were off scratch. At the end of the day, one handicap boat had got four seconds so the system seems to work.

The NE wind allowed a long beat down the full length of the pond but often the boats were so close there was a pile up at the windward mark. However, the long reaches back down the pond sorted them out and there was generally no trouble at the leeward marks. Shaky Bill had leaking problems with his new Stealth and Ali (non shaky) had servo failure changing two before he got going. Colin Brown was unbeatable from the start, he never did a thing wrong, the points gap shows this but it was Italico weather (if the others need an excuse).

Race officer Boyd thanked his assistants Ian Hotson, Grant Cuthbert and Club President Andrew Haxon.

Final positions were: