It was probably due to crews wanting to escape from Jon�s boat-moving work party but we got twelve enthusiastic entrants for Night Jar 14. And two were over enthusiastic going OCS and being recalled! Mind you, that didn�t stop them moving back to the front of the fleet by the second leg.
But the wind was all over the place � enough at A where the Bates was anchored but virtually nothing from 0 around 1 and up to B. Andy / Phil had had enough after one lap but John in the Solo and Mike & Eric continued to crawl their way around.
Richard Hughes in his elderly Radial was the first to be shortened after one 30 minute lap. He had put in a stormer (relatively speaking) and was 8 minutes up on Bob�s Full Rig and over 10 on the fellow Radials of Alan Singleton, John Bracegirdle and Barbara Thompson.
Katia�s Tera and James� Oppy looked as though they were in with a chance on PH at least. But, although they looked painfully slow, the wind picked up marginally for the back markers and those on 2 laps took the leading results. That didn�t stop Mike & Eric accepting a tow back – for the first time in a long while they said!
There was no food for the first Thursday this year. So thanks are due to Andy and a hungry Katia for staying on to produce the results.