Monday, March 28, 2011

CT 49

Boat: CT 49

Builder: TaChiao (TAIWAN)

Designer: Scott Kaufman

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Bell Lawrie Scottish Series - Offshore Races Overall


Author: Andi Robertson

It is the Irish brogue which is the dominant accent in the pubs of the Kintyre village of Tarbert on Loch Fyne rather than the home Scots as the boats racing from Bangor on Belfast Lough completed their overnight passage race to Tarbert long before the first Clyde boats broke the finish line.
Not that the passage race from Northern Ireland was without its stops and
starts, but it proved a brisk canter by comparison to the stop start tour
of the Clyde glue pots which some of the 100 plus Gourock starters had to
endure. At one point the main turning mark off Brodick Bay by the Isle of
Arran had 70 boats milling around pointing aimlessly in different
directions. Many spent six hours rounding this single mark and early
evening tonight there are still most of the bigger class 1 and 2 boats
which raced from Gourock still struggling to finish having been set an 80
mile course down to the Heads of Ayr. Irvine Bay on the Ayrshire Coast was
one of their biggest sticking points.

By comparison, although they stopped at times and lost their lead to their
main rivals, the Corby 38 Gloves Off and Corby 40 Cracklin Rosie, the
offshore was a great debut for Bob Stewart's new Dublin based Ed Dubois
designed 40 footer Azure.

Just launched last weekend, rigged on Sunday and tuned on Tuesday, Azure
lead across the North Channel but soon marked a quiet spot on the Arran
shore which Gloves and Cracklin sailed round going on to lead by two miles.
After wriggling free Azure took their revenge when their two Dublin Bay
compatriots became ensnared in another calm.

" it was tough at times but we worked hard. We kept peeling the spinnaker
and kept going and that really made a big difference. We're delighted with
the boat." Commented Mark Pettit who has project managed this, the first
new IRC race boat design since Toy de Mulder's Victric which won regularly
on Loch Fyne.

Of the Gourock starters it was Hamish Mackay who guided the new Elan 362
Silver Darling, which was also just launched this week, to cross the line
first in IRC Class 3. They dropped to third on corrected time behind the
new X332 Tundra of Donald Sharp who won outright the Kip Regatta warm up
two weeks ago.

Race 1 Offshore Race from Bangor, Belfast Lough and Gourock, Clyde to Tarbert


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