| Saturday (Race 1) IRC Class 1.
1st. "Animula" Titan 36 (Duncan Grant) - see below.
3rd. "Sloop John T" Swan 40 (Iain Thomson).

Sunday - Round Cumbraes IRC Class 1.
1st. "Sloop John T" Swan 40 (Iain Thomson)
2nd. "Animula" Titan 36 (Duncan Grant)
3rd. "Aztec" Sunfast 40 (John Connelly) - see below.

Saturday (Race 1) IRC Class 2.
1st. "Eauvation 4" First 33.7 (David Clark) - see below.
3rd. "Enigma" Sigma 36 (Howard Morrison).

Sunday - Round Cumbraes IRC Class 2.
2nd. "Enigma" Sigma 36 (Howard Morrison)
4th. "Eauvation 4" First 33.7 (David Clark).
This year's event was made hard going by the light winds, but overall it was a good regatta and Saturn Sails faired well. On Saturday the fleet was split, with classes 1,2 and 3 sailing to the north of the Great Cumbrae and classes 4, 5 and 6 in the Fairlie Channel. Classes 5 and 6 managed to get two races, but the other fleets struggled to get one.
In Class 1, Duncan Grant's Titan 36 "Animula" showed good all round speed to win the class and in Class 2, David Clark's "Eauvation 4" also won comfortably. Sailing in Class 4, John Kent's "Farr-E-Nuff" finished second and Gordon Aikman's new Maxi 1100 "Scanne" (see below) won Class 6 with good consistant sailing over the two races.

On Sunday we had great sunshine but still light winds from the south west quarter. Unfortunately the wind died, leaving a "parking lot" at the Tan and most fleets restarted from there, with the wind filling in again from the south.
Iain Thomson sailing the Swan 40 "Sloop John T" won Class 1, with "Animula" 2nd. and John Connelly's new Sunfast 40 "Aztec" 3rd. Howard Morrison sailing "Enigma" finished 2nd. in Class 2 and in Class 4 "Farr-E-Nuff" score another 2nd. |