With the club team away racing at Roadford, the remnants decided to 
have a Chocoholics regatta.

AM race

Five boats crossed the start line and on the water nobody could touch 
Steve Axford in his fully rigged Laser. However there was a close battle 
between the three Toppers of Jane Anderson and John and Vicki Duncalf 
with Jane coming out on top.

Results: 

1st Jane Anderson (Topper)
2nd John Duncalf (Topper)
3rd Steve Axford (Laser)
4th Vicki Duncalf (Topper)
5th Roger Heasman (Laser Radial)

Lunchtime: Peter Pocock Junior Series.

This was the last race of the series. Adam Pollard got away first and lead 
all the way. Sarah Balsdon and Grace Waterhouse followed with Tamsyn 
Keens in third on a reduced rig. Sarah Heard had a nightmare trying to 
get round the first buoy as the dam kept causing wind shifts on her just as 
she approached the buoy. On the last leg, Sarah and Grace very nearly 
caught Adam with Tamsyn closing on them as well.

With the series complete Adam is the worthy winner of the Peter Pocock 
Cup. Well done to all our young sailors that took part.

Results: 

1st Adam Pollard
2nd Sarah Balsdon and Grace Waterhouse
3rd Tamsyn Keens
Sarah Heard rtd

PM race: 

With Steve Axford now crewing for Paul and the additional boat of John 
Savage,  six boats started. The Scorpion with Paul and Steve on board 
scorched of the line and disappeared over the horizon leaving the three 
Toppers to squabble with each other for the whole race. Jane Anderson 
looked as if she had got clear but would have made a mistake nearly 
missing West Buoy but for John Duncalf’s kindly prompting. This 
mistake allowed John to overtake her and beat her to the line. 

Results: 

1st Paul Whybrow and Steve Axford (Scorpion)
2nd John Duncalf (Topper)
3rd Jane Anderson (Topper)
4th Vicki Duncalf (Topper)
5th Roger Heasman (Laser Radial)
John Savage (Cadet) rtd   

Team Racing at Roadford Reservoir

Tamar’s travelling team made the trip to Roadford Lake for the first of a 
two-leg keenly contested match against Roadford sailing club.  As a 
much larger reservoir than Upper Tamar, many of the Roadford club 
members sail much bigger dinghies (complete with asymmetric 
gennakers) than those most commonly used at Upper Tamar, so the 
competition had something of a David and Goliath feel to it.  
Nevertheless, Tamar had put together a team with some potential for boat 
speed that included four Laser sailors: Nicky Buckett, Simon Veal, Katie 
Leveridge and not forgetting Mike Ford, who left his Bosun behind, but 
showed that he hadn’t forgotten his old Laser-sailing skills.   Turning out 
once more for Tamar by special request, Toby Tobias soon had his 
immaculate red-hulled Bosun ploughing through the Roadford waves, 
aided by crew John Leveridge.   On the day, though, the most successful 
Upper Tamar boat was the RS200 helmed by Bob Samson, with on this 
occasion Jane Chadney as crew.  On the broad expanses of Roadford, the 
asymmetric RS200 was able to spread its wings and demonstrate its true 
potential, posting a remarkable 2nd place in the morning race (out of a 
combined fleet of around 20 boats).  Despite the wind rising further to 
quite a stiff breeze over lunch, Bob and Jane were going even better in 
the afternoon race, until they were caught unawares as they hoisted the 
gennaker on the second lap for the downwind section and capsized; the 
RS200 promptly inverted and the long delay before righting cost them 
any chance of another good result.  David Harker was also battling with a 
gennaker in his RS Feva, but with the added complication that he was 
sailing single-handed; at the end of the downwind leg, the gennaker 
refused to come down and sadly he capsized at the mark.  When the 
combined results from the two races were calculated at the end of the day, 
Roadford has assembled a substantial points lead and the Tamar sailors 
will clearly need to dig deep to pull back into contention in the second leg 
of the competition next week.