The weather forecast was for light winds and light they were, from a max of about 5knots at the start of the racing gradually dropping to nothing at the end of the second senior flight with the fleet drifting over the shortened course line at the gate.
There was quite a committee boat bias on the line for the early starts and recall after recall to the extent that both senior fleets had 2 black flag starts. Markus and Isaac went for what I call the "late committee boat" start by going in late and popping out from the committee boat and going right. The right was favoured and Markus pulled out a good lead by working it. Isaac didn't push quite as far right and went around the top mark in 9th. Markus held his lead in the dying breeze and won by a good margin. Isaac picked up a place to finish 8th.
Leonard made his start about 1/3 up from the pin in a good gap with clear air and was soon able to cross most of the fleet over to the right hand side. He didn't go as far right as the race winner Freddie and was 6th at the wing mark when we saw him next. The run got lighter and lighter and he was over run by a bunch before getting to the gate and ended up 12th.
The PRO announced that he would wait until 3:30 and re-evaluate. No wind was in sight and they pulled the pin. So, only one race down.
Mark has put some pics on the Facebook page.
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