Friday, 23rd December 2016
In this the final Sunday Sailors race of 2016, 7 of the 22 yacht fleet opted to fly spinnakers. Six of those 7 were first across the finish line whilst 5 of the 7 recorded the fastest elapsed times. The use of spinnakers does come with a 3 minute adjustment which altered the final finish order so that 5 out of the 7 first final finishers flew spinnakers. The combination of course 12 and the wind direction provided the opportunity to sail 3 of the 7 legs downwind – 4.9 out of a total rhumb line length of 9.8 nautical miles. It was BLUE TACK (Andy Lynch) who crossed the finish line first with CARPE DIEM (Paul Commins) and PLAY (Ian Pridgeon) joining her on the podium. All 3 flew spinnakers.