Round the Island Race

Saturday 5th June 2010

Due to the lack of wind, rather than attempting the full Round the Island race, we sailed a shorter course in the Solent. 

Comments from the Race Officer, Ken Surplice

Thank you all for supporting the RIOW race this year. Now that it is over I will confess that this was the first time that I had managed a race and committee boat. Thank you all for being well behaved and making it an enjoyable task and a great day and thank you Jenny Lowry for your valuable help. And thank you too to those who sent messages to say how you enjoyed the day. We novices need encouragement! Next year our new Sailing Secretary, David Bamber, will manage the race, but I am happy to help, if required, based on my new found experience.

I’m back to bring you the detailed results of the June RIOW race. Apologies for the delay in this, which is due to me having to learn more about the intricacies of scoring while having too much going on at work. In addition, to make future racing easier, I have updated our long established results spreadsheet to automatically incorporate handicaps. All we have to do in future is enter yes or no to sail declarations, and specify the type of engine/prop combination. Then Excel does the rest and we get instant results.

In addition to sorting out the scoring mechanism, there were three other points of interest which I’d like to share with you:

• Handicap for having a lifting keel but declaring that you will not use it.
  At first I was inclined to exclude this and indeed a past commodore and racing guru agreed. However, our Association Handbook, in which I discover more useful stuff every year, does state that there is a specific category for declaring that you will sail with your keel down during the race. You might think about this next year.
• Handicap for roller reefing.
  The 2008 handbook offers a handicap for roller reefing but mysteriously this line has disappeared from the 2010 handbook. Asking around, nobody knows why it went missing and the RYA Portsmouth Yardstick web pages don’t offer any advice either. In view of any better advice, and the fact that this handicap is still mentioned on our web site, we will keep it. Although all entrants had roller reefing, and the same ten handicap points, the percentage advantage will vary.
• Handicap for Seal 850.
  I will need to update the entry form. It asks if your rig is standard but for the Seal 850 handicap we need to know if the rig is tall or short.

Since the race, I’ve had further input on improvements we can make to race instructions and rules. Have your input ready for our next AGM. Meanwhile, with everything now sorted, you can see the full results attached. Congratulations to the class winners!

Results

Class	Sail No	Boat	Helm	PY No	Finish time	Elapsed Time	Corrected Time	Over the line	Position
21	18	Dawn	Geoff Turner	1093	14:00:33	4:00:33	3:40:05	2	1
26	50	Rascal	Phillip Linsell	996	13:50:05	3:50:05	3:51:00	1	2
26	96	Calypso	Jon Foreman	1036	14:00:55	4:00:55	3:52:33	3	3
21	99	Kitty	Terry Gates	1073	14:31:35	4:31:35	4:13:06	6	4
235	29	Sandy Lady	Jim Hamilton	1080	14:37:09	4:37:09	4:16:37	10	5
235	21	Vienna	Adrian Lumb	1080	14:48:04	4:48:04	4:26:44	12	6
26	100	Skylark	Richard Tanner	1016	14:31:58	4:31:58	4:27:41	7	7
235	38	Zephyr	Peter Scrivens	1060	14:45:36	4:45:36	4:29:26	11	8
26	21	Cleo	Peter Lowry	996	14:31:00	4:31:00	4:32:05	5	9
27	147	Niquaydi	Richard Watson	1006	14:35:47	4:35:47	4:34:08	8	10
26	69	Miss Fidget	Richard & Gilliane Sills	976	14:36:01	4:36:01	4:42:48	9	11
325	35 GBR5643T	Lucky Devil	Mike Lockwood	950	14:30:39	4:30:39	4:44:54	4	12
850	76	Sea Lady	David Bamber	1110	16:04:22	6:04:22	5:28:15	13	13

These results are also available in Excel format.

Photos, taken by Diane Watson from Niquaydi and Sue Surplice from Cleo.

Waiting for the start

During the the race

At the Folly afterwards