Chichester Yacht Club Magazine December 2017 | Page 14

Frozen Toe 2017 starts in bright autumn sunshine - by Mark
Green
Chichester Yacht Club started its
2017 Frozen Toe Open series in
beautiful bright sunshine. Over 50
boats joined the racing with a large
contingent from Felpham Sailing
Club and a number of Merlin Rockets
from Shoreham enhancing the
competition.
The Race officer, Derek Jackman,
decided on an M shaped course to
make the most of the North Westerly
wind blowing across the CYC lake.
The course gave the sailors plenty of
challenges with two good beats, a couple of
Runs and a fast reach each lap. The 12-17
knot wind from the NW added to the challenge
giving good hiking conditions in the middle of
the lake and light wind areas to avoid closer to
the banks.
After the first two races, the Merlin Rockets
dominated the fast fleet with six of the top
seven places, Alex Jackson & Mark Oakley
leading with two first places, and only Edward
Thornton in his Finn able to break up the Merlin
party in fourth place. Further down the fast fleet
there was a tight race between Dell Quay's Bill
Dawber and CYC's Nick Elliman, with Nick
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overtaking Bill at the final mark and then
carefully covering Bill all the way to the line, but
Bill reversed the result in the second race.
In the Medium fleet, Felpham’s Guy Mayger
won both races, followed home by Guy Dulace
in race 1 and Nick and Biddy Colbourne in race
2.
In the Slow fleet, Felpham’s Owen Rowlands
put in a very consistent performance winning
both races, followed in both races by CYC’s
Thomas Larson and Felpham's Alice Serna.
Full Results are available on the CYC open
meeting results page.