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| ...Combs Open - 24th September | ||
Report by: Bob Pyett Combs Sailing Club held their first ever Supernova Open on Saturday 24th September. Nine home boats were joined by eleven visitors from sailing clubs across the UK. With Keith Rix from Chipstead Sailing Club in Kent the longest traveller. As visitors arrived and rigged the wind strength was a steady nine knots from a Southerly direction. However, (this being dinghy racing) as the first race approached the wind swung round to a South-westerly. This presented challenges for both the helms and race officers. Winds from this direction have to travel over the sizeable hill at the side of the reservoir. Consequently we had winds of varying strength and direction landing on the water. This would be an advantage to home sailors used to such conditions but some of the visitors found the conditions "interesting". One commented that his burgee constantly indicated a completely different direction from his hawk wind indicator sited above the deck. The first race saw Mike Gibson Bartley SC first to the windward mark. Paul Thompson Combs SC in second place tried valiantly to catch Mike but ran out of laps, as Mike took the first race comfortably. Paul Undrell and Paul Earnshaw both of Haversham SC tussled for third place with Paul Earnshaw just getting the edge. David Machin from Haversham SC was fifth. Race number two followed a similar format. Mike Gibson took the lead shortly after the windward mark and went onto win from Paul Earnshaw in second place, Paul Thompson in third, Paul Undrell in fourth and Bob Pyett of Combs SC fifth. In race number three Mike Gibson had built up a five minute advantage over the second place boat. So it was no surprise when Mike went onto win the third race. Paul Thomson and Paul Underell took the second and third placing with David Machin in fourth and Bob Pyett fifth. Combs thoroughly enjoyed hosting the Open and thank our visitors for an excellent day's competition. We look forward to hosting an Open in 2012, when hopefully visitors will not be subjected to South-westerly's and the resulting "Combs Effect" wind conditions.
Overall results Full results here.
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