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Clyde Cruising Club
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Suite 101
The Pentagon Centre
36 Washington Street
Glasgow G3 8AZ
Tel: 0141 221 2774
Fax: 0141 221 2775
email:hazel@clyde.org
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CCC INFORMATION
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Established in 1909, and has now grown to 2,200 members. CCC organises racing
and cruising events, has a dinghy training section, supports disabled sailing, and publishes
Sailing Directions for most of the Scottish coast...
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Tarbert Scottish Series 1999
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Monday Press Report
As the sunshine finally arrived on Loch Fyne competition for the top prize at the silver
jubilee Tarbert Scottish Series, the Scottish Series Trophy, hotted up. In the 1720 class
Kevin Sproul and the crew of Proctor Winning Masts worked hard to record two second places in
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Proctor Winning Masts - The leading Cork 1720
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contrasting races to assume the overall lead in the highly competitive class, while Nigel
Bramwell and the crew of the Sydney 46 Hawk scored two first places to break the winning
run of Tony de Mulder's Victric 4. Other leading contenders for the main prize, which is
awarded to the best performance at the regatta as judged by representatives of the
sponsors and the Clyde Cruising Club, must include current holder Graham Campbell who is
aboard the Class 6 leading Flare 25 Aggro 2 which has now scored three first places two
seconds and a third to lead overall. On the big boat course Hawk, with David Bedford as
tactician, came good as they finished in a fading westerly breeze which left Victric
drifting almost half an hour astern. As a new south westerly arrived for the second race
Victric became caught up with the class 2 boats on the second run and could not get back
to the left side where the better breeze was. De Mulder and his crew reckon they need
finish no worse than fifth to win the class. "That is the main priority at the
moment but another first would surely put us in with a chance of the overall trophy,
but we'll worry about that when the time comes." Said owner de Mulder who won the
class last year with the
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After winning the offshore race Ostrea had consistent finishes
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same crew. "If anything it has been a little easier this year as there are a few boats
which are not here this year." In Class 1 past winners Chris Bonar's BH36 Bateleur was
another boat to suffer severely when the wind dropped. After having built up a meaningful
lead from a good first beat Bateleur stuck too far towards the east shore of the loch and
was marooned in the calm. They came back in the second race with a victory, while the
steady consistency of Neville Hodkin's new X362S Extra Djinn sees the Scarborough boat
with slender one point lead over the Welsh Sigma 400 Corwynt Cymru which won the first race
today. The only boat with an perfect run of first places is former Scottish Fireball
Champion David Sinclair's Sigma 38 Trilleachan which secured overall victory in the
Restricted Sail Class today with a day to spare.
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