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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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Saturday Press Report
After a less than auspicious start to the Silver Jubilee Tarbert Scottish
Series when the the winds shut off at the start and the finish of the long
offshore races from Gourock and Bangor, today (Saturday) the 216 competing
boats in 14 classes had a short lived taste of racing on Loch Fyne at its
best. Starting in a steady 12 knot northerly breeze the big boat classes
looked to be set for a close race on the southernmost of the three race courses.
Nigel Bramwell's Hamble based visitor Hawk, a Sydney 47, and Keith Miller's
Swan 46 Crackerjack
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Keith Miller's Swan 46 Crackerjack
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looked to make the early pace until the wind died mid way through and allowed the
slower boats to reduce their deficit. Defending class title holder Victric 4,
Tony de Mulder's Dubois 37 maintained their speed advantage through the lighter
period and was in good shape when a new, stronger north westerly reduced the final
loop of the traditional Olympic triangle course to a drag race to the finish, with
the windward leg becoming a fetch. Victric remains unbeaten to head Class 0, while
Hawk slipped to fifth on handicap. " We had no way of coming back after the breeze
died. We had worked hard and reckoned we were saving our time on the boats behind but
we were stuffed by the end of the final run." said Hawk's tactician David
Bedford.
In Class 1 the mid race break also favoured some of the better sailed slower rated
boats as the Ulster J-35 Bengal Magic sailed by Brian Shaw came through to win on
corrected time. The new, stiffer breeze gave crews more of a skill test. In Class 5
Gordon Aikman's Moody 336 Scanne
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Gordon Aikman's Moody 336 Scanne
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gybed heavily at the penultimate turn and snapped her boom in half when it
crashed on to the shrouds. Under a hasty makeshift repair they hung on to win
by a slender 57 seconds. In the 1720 class Tommy and John Murhphy's After Midnight
leads after two races today. With Rob Smith, former UK Melges champion steering,
After Midnight scored a first and third in very trying conditions. With the wind
shifting on each leg of the traditional Olympic course After Midnight stayed on
top their game to win, consolidating with a third in the second race - a windward
leeward race won by Kevin Sproul on Proctor Winning Masts. Proctor strayed too
far inshore on the first race and were stranded in a hole in the breeze to finish
last.
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