2025 Series 2 Race 3

A quiet week of light winds at the Holy Loch.

Tuesday Dinghy Racing

Just three boats this week, sailing a triangular course. More Mischieff had a commanding lead by the end of the second lap and race officer Bill Aitchison sent them around for a third lap, calculating the results on average lap time.

1^st         More Mischieff  - Flying Fifteen - Chris Bowen

2^nd         Solo – Ali Gordon

3^rd         Killer B - B14 – Fin Hurrel

Wednesday Racing – Series 2 – Race 3

Whitesail

Atia, Judicious and Moonlight were all close to the start line as the start signal sounded, but the wind suddenly faded. Atia and Judicious manged to keep their momentum, leaving Moonlight behind on their way to the first mark by the marina entrance. Such was the fickle wind they sailed into a hole amongst the Pipers creating a melee approaching the mark, losing all momentum and steerage. Moonlight however was in a different airspace, and came through on a beam reach rounding the mark between the two groups still trying to get round the mark.

Heading across to Kilmun, Moonlight led the way until finding her own hole in the approach to the mark, enabling all the other boats to get round inside. The leg across to Lazaretto presented a decision on which side of the dive boat to take. Atia went right, and Judicious went left, but both met at the next mark, with Moonlight chasing some way behind. However Atia and Judicious were able to round the mark, leaving Moonlight stranded by wind shifts which meant having to tack several times to get round. While Judicious may have crossed the finish line just ahead of Atia, it was Duncan Chalmers Atia that won on handicap, and a late charge by Nigel Scriven’s Moonlight saw him take second place ahead of Jim Hoey’s Judicious.

1st Atia - UFO 27 - 47m 02s – Duncan Chalmers

2nd Moonlight – Sonata - 49m 56s – Nigel Scriven

3rd Judicious – J30 - 51m 25s – Jim Hoey

Flying Fifteens

Three Flying Fifteens competed this week. With the benefit of starting ten minutes ahead of the whitesail class they managed to make it across to Kilmun before the wind started to die. It was a game of looking for wind and although More Michieff was never challenged, there were times when it looked like Woffle and Efficacious w

ere going to catch up, only for the wind to die on them again. In the last minute of the race Woffle found a puff of wind and managed to cross the line just ahead of Efficacious.

1^st          More Mischieff – Chris Bowen

2^nd         Woffle – Jim MacLean

3^rd         Efficacious – Tommy McGeachie

Pipers

The Pipers were at the mercy of the wind and Tom Piper fond some wind and had a convincing lead by the second mark at Kilmun, while the others remained becalmed by the marina. Tom Piper held onto his lead while the others fought to find wind.

1^st         Tom Piper – Fergus Campbell

2^nd         Billie Piper – Iain Hurrel

3^rd         Stay Puff – Robert Towart

4^th         Leander – Jim Campbell

5^th         Tamarind – Andy Love

Dinghies

The dinghies, starting first also had some wind for the first part of the race. Painted Warrior and Home Brew gradually pulled away, and by the finish were well clear of thee other boats.

1^st          Painted Warrior  - Contender –  Neil Wilson

2^nd         Home Brew – Albacore – Peter McWhinnie

3^rd         All the gear – Laser Radial – Harris Munns

4^th         Killer B – B14 – Fin Hurrel

Correction : Last week in the crews race we made a mistake. The whitsail race was actually won by Andrew Leech sailing J30 Judicious.