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Cowes – Dinard - St Malo 1,2,3 July 2005
Enigma also won the Holman Cup – BCT IRM; Sandison Memorial Salver – lst boat home; RORC prize BCT - IRC Super Zero
Maverick also won the Newcome Hoare Trophy – best IRC yacht on corrected time with 25% of the crew under 25
Francis Prout Trophy – BCT MOCRA Rating Rule TRIOHE (Richard Roscoe)
John West Trophy (Club challenge for 2 yacht teams scored in IRC overall)
1 ENIGMA OF LONDON (Reichel/Pugh 76) Charles Dunstone
Class IRC Z - 5 prizes 1 EXABYTE 111 (IMX 45) Shaun Frohlich
1 MAVERICK 2 (IMX 40) Dominic Chappell
Class IRC 2 - 5 prizes 1 PEN AZEN (J109) Philippe Delaporte
Class IRC 3 - 5 prizes 1 FESTINA LENTE (Sigma 38) Meakins Family
1 ENIGMA OF LONDON (Reichel/Pugh 76) Charles Dunstone
Multihulls – 2 prizes 1 TRIOHE (F 9AX) Richard Roscoe
2nd Handed Class - 2 prizes 1 ROARING FORTIES (Open 40) Michel Kleinjans
1 AUDACIOUS (Farr 45) David Wadsworth
1st in class to cross the line receiving a RORC medallion:-
Sigma 38 FESTINA LENTE (Meakins Family) Prima 38 SERENDIP (Paul King) J 105 Night & Day (Pascal Loison) J 109 Pen Azen (Philippe Delaporte) First 40.7 TARKA (Nick Jones) Reflex 38 PUMA LOGIC (Sailing Logic – sailed by Phillippe Falle) 3 July 2005
Class 2 started at 12:10, Me’Julie, Philip Pascall’s J109 and Harry Heijst’s S&S 41 Winsome both getting the jump on the rest with good starts. Anticipation, Peter Newlands’ First 40.7 lived up to her name and had the best of starts in class 1 at 12:20. Super Zero and Zero started together at 12:30, Stamina II, Michel Perelie’s A40, Alice, Simon Henning’s Mumm 36 and Cityjet.com, Jean-Philippe Chomette’s Nacira 60 showing the way. The Multihulls were the last class to start at 12:40, Triohe, Richard Roscoe’s F9AX and Carbon Tiger 2, Brian Haynes Farrier F33R away well with Triple Fantasy, Michael Leslie Millerchip’s Kelsall 35 trying to get the edge only to find he had pushed a little to hard and was OCS at the gun and had to return. At the first passing mark of the course Snowden Buoy (leave to starboard) a number of yachts were seen to pass to the South of it earning themselves a penalty at the beginning of the 170 mile race. Running under kites down the Solent to the Forts gave the fleet a flying start. This was about to change as they rounded Bembridge to pop out into the Channel for the long beat in heavy seas to Les Hanois. The conditions would begin to give the crews something to think about as they once again had to use their seamanship skills along with racing tack -ticks. By mid to late afternoon yachts were being forced to retire with gear failure varying from broken backstays to shreaded sails. There were also a couple of reports of man overboards, which were quickly dealt with. The first was off Jeu D’Esprit where the crewmember was recovered by Adelaide Star, who at the time was having a few difficulties of their own and then presented back to his original vessel. Although un-injured Jeu D’Esprit decided that the sensible thing to do would be to retire back to shore. Adelaide Star is considering asking for redress for the time taken to assist in the recovery. The second swimmer came from Jeronimo who quickly took text book actions, starting their engine and had the MOB back on board in a matter of minutes. They also took the decision to retire from the race. Other yachts had problems on the Mal de Mare front. Those yachts who took the option to go rock-hopping along the Island shore would find their gamble paid dividends in the long term, keeping them out of the stronger tides and giving them enough push the west before the breeze died off during the night. Those who did not take this option and preferred the relative safety of deeper water and a more direct route found themselves caught in a drifting competition. Enigma of London rounded Les Hanois at 02:44 and held their lead to finish off St Malo at 07:07 on Saturday morning. Second yacht to finish would be Cityjet.com at 08:57. It was looking as if it would be a ‘Big Boat’ race as Aera, and Spirit of Jethou followed on behind just after 10:00. A battle was ensuing behind them between Bear of Britain and Fidessa Fastwave with Bear clawing ahead over the line by just 15 seconds. With the trailing yachts caught in areas which where all but becalmed it would be a long hard struggle to the finish after the battering at the start. This lack of breeze had a devastating effect on the fleet with crews running out of time before they had to return to the UK, many of whom deciding it was their only option to retire. A long race for some with boats still racing on Sunday evening! The RORC would like to extend its thanks to the Societe Nautique de la Baie de St Malo, theYacht Club de Dinard, especially Monsieur Christian Fougeray who provided the committee boat Barravel for the finishing line. If you have your own story of this race that you would like to share with others, send it to the RORC who will put it on a special section of the website.
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