South West District IOM Winter series round 2 West Cornwall RSC

17 of the districts IOM skippers made the trip to Falmouth for this event.

The forecast was for fine weather with a light, steadily increasing SW breeze.

For once the forecast was correct and apart from being a bit nippy conditions could not have been better.

Ro Peter Cropper opted to run one fleet taking three skippers out to observe each race leaving 14 to look for room on the start line.

The earlier races were as expected dominated by current UK champion Tony Edwards.

Son James and local sailor Gavin Watson were also performing well and kept Tony looking over his shoulder.

At the lunch break Tony had a modest lead over James and Gavin.

During the break skippers changed from No.1 to No.2 rigs and things slowly but surely started to change.

Gavin’s boat revelled in the conditions and he had 4 wins in a row pulling him up to level the score with Tony.

At the same time Simon Clark who had a fairly indifferent start to the event had a good string of first and second places but they would never be good enough to challenge the top 3.

Top 3 were Gavin Watson, Tony Edwards and James Edwards.

Everyone had a good well mannered days sailing and will be looking forward to round 3 at Sedgemoor next month.

Full Results: swdws2