Results / RYA Spring Championship Largs Sailing Club - 24/03/2012

Nine RS200s arrived on Saturday 24 March to a sunny Largs for the first event of the 2012 calendar; the Malin Waters sponsored RYS Scotland Spring Championships hosted by the Scottish Sailing Institute.

After a slight delay the first race got underway in a shifty and rather patchy F2. Two or three of the fleet were rather over eager after the winter break and had to restart leaving Fiona Hall and Ashly Martin (Dalgety Bay/Largs) to take the lead around the first windward mark, a lead which they held to the finish.

Fiona/Ashly were closely pursued by Ronnie and Tor Millar (Dalgety Bay) until Ronnie found a rather large hole down the last run sucking him back to 8^th. This left locals Martin Faulkner and Stuart Ross to take second and Doug Paton and Nikki Stewart, newcomers to the fleet having borrowed the infamous ‘red shed’ third. The wind dropped slightly for the second race making finding the breeze even more important.  Ronnie/Tor took the win with Graham and Vicki Tait (Aberdeen and Stonehaven) second and Fiona/Ashly closely behind in third.

The race officer decided it was time to call it a day and the fleet headed ashore for lasagne provided by the event organisers.

Sunday dawned even sunnier and warmer than Saturday, who would have thought this was Scotland in March? Unfortunately the wind didn’t want to play ball. After a postponement ashore the fleets eventually launched around 1pm but with the breeze never really filling in consistently racing was abandoned for the day. This gave Fiona/Ashly the overall win with Graham /Vicki in second and Martin/Stuart third.