Every season in an afternoon.

The second of this year’s InterClub race days was hosted by RWYC so the lake was busy with the Cruiser fleet, a Flying Fifteen fleet, and the Windermere 17 fleet. The forecast suggested a reasonable Westerly for most of the afternoon but the real picture was much more complicated – challenging conditions for the Race Officer.

As can be seen from the results below, Race 1 was unusual, with three boats scored NSC, and three DNF. Not everyone will be familiar with NSC – it was introduced as RRS A10 in the 2021 revision of the Racing Rules together with RRS A5.1 which permits the race committee to score a boat as NSC – “Did not sail the course” without a hearing. This changed the long standing prohibition on such race committee action. 

I’ll comment further below on what happened, but first, here are the results: –