Posted by: Dave Latham, on: Sunday, August 23, 2009
Ciudad De Ceuta won this years overall first place in the tenth Sotogrande Sailing Regatta.
Seawolf and her most novice crew yet, consisting of 7 female crew members finished in a very respectable 5th place in class 2 and 11th overall in a fleet of 30 very competitive sailing yachts.
Three days racing saw a windward/leeward course set on Saturday, covering 10 miles in medium to light airs. Sunday saw the longer coastal race, with all the yachts sailing from Sotogrande down to the aero buoy situated on the East side of Gibraltar, then back to Sotogrande.
The final days racing on Monday included 2 races, again windward/leeward in lighter airs.
Posted by: Dave Latham, on: Tuesday, August 04, 2009
The 13th Gibraltar Regatta was held on the 25th/26th July by the Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club.
Racing took place over 2 days in the Bay of Gibraltar.
Light airs made for some interesting sailing on the Saturday, when the fleet were sent around the rock to the Aero bouy on the East side and back.
Trumpeter of the Rock took line honours followed by Seawolf and the superbly sailed Vikingo in Third , the corrected results gave victory to Vikingo, Seawolf Second and Trumpeter third.
Sunday again saw light airs:
2 windward leeward courses were set and sailed by the fleet, sailing gains and losses were seen all day as the light airs came and went, leaving wind holes all around. The boats that managed to keep sailing throughout, were rewarded with very close racing at the front of the fleet.
After all the results were in the final standings were:
First Vikingo 6.5 points
Second Trumpeter 6.5 points
Third Seawolf 8.0 points
Well done again to the new novice crew who trained with us and sailed on board Seawolf.