RA Veteran Nationals and final PRACC round @ Poole

After a scintillating afternoon, Lester Gilbert pipped Roy Stevens to the Veteran championship title at Poole. Weather had been overcast with some light rain earlier in the day but with light breezes, course setting was an interesting challenge for PRO Peter Wiles.

Lester’s six race wins (5 after the lunch break) to Roy’s 3 finally edged the winning margin to just 3 points.

Full results: myara2015veteransnats

In contrast to Saturday’s overcast and occasionally wet conditions, Sunday turned out to be a beautiful sunny day. However the combination of very light airs with loads of shifts meant that the start had to be delayed slightly. PRO David Munro was kept thinking the whole time about tweaks to the course but as the day progressed, it was the likely effect of the sun, lifting weed off the bottom of the lake that proved the main problem. After a break for lunch, what turned out to be the last heat was raced but the skippers voted in favour of calling a halt at that stage as it was becoming increasingly difficult to avoid weed.

Peter Wiles took the honours both for the day and for the PRACC series overall. Dave Andrews couldn’t male it on the day but held on to his second place in the series with Vernon Appleton in third. Bob Conner was presented with the Gerry Gray trophy for the second successive year having attended all 10 rounds.

Full results: pracc20201520final