| What a difference a week makes to the weather in the Solent. After the gales and bitter cold wind over the Easter holiday, the second week of the Raymarine Warsash Spring Series on 30 March was greeted with sunshine and blue sky. Only the breeze was elusive but after some delays, all competitors enjoyed a taxing day’s racing, even if this meant plenty of work for the course setters and mark layers having constantly to revise their plans in the light and variable wind.
The two sportsboat courses were laid along the Meon shore near the entrance to Southampton Water and they enjoyed the best of the early morning breeze. The Laser SB3s started cleanly and Pieter Heyn’s Go Hard or Go Home arrived at the windward mark first just ahead of Sbeed and Palava. Heyn then took a flyer out to the right which proved fatal, allowing Palava a small lead. ...more |
