{"id":3808,"date":"2024-08-29T20:55:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/?page_id=3808"},"modified":"2024-08-29T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:59:34","slug":"rti-race-report-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/?page_id=3808","title":{"rendered":"RTI Race Report 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The smiling crew on ‘Game Changer’ as they near the Point of Ayre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In windy and occasionally not so windy conditions, Game Changer won the Ellan Vannin Maritime Centre Round the Island Race on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the Beneteau 40.7 from Bangor\u2019s third time of competing in the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club\u2019s annual race, and it managed to get round in just over nine and a half hours. The boat took the Ramsey Town Cup for first place in the Div 1IRC handicap, with Keith Lord\u2019s  A Crewed Interest 2nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Our boat is beautiful and took us round the corners,\u2019 said skipper Shaun Douglas. \u2018If we hadn\u2019t hit a hole at Maughold we might have been on for the course record. That was a shame but we were just glad to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018It was 18-20 knots off the Point of Ayre and a bit bumpy. We were then reaching down to Peel and hit a bit of calm after the Calf. After Port St Mary we were flying with the S2 spinnaker, doing 8-9 knots.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a big crew of nine, including some older members of the sailing fraternity causing them to call themselves the \u2018Saga Tour\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018It must have been my thirtieth time in the event and it was exhilarating,\u2019 said David Edwards, a former Commodore of the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club. \u2018I had to do two thirds of the spinnaker.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boats set of in brisk Force 4-5 conditions at 11am on Saturday morning, and made rapid progress up the island\u2019s north east coast. A Crewed Interest, the A-35 which won the IOM Breweries Cup and which was Overall Winner on NHC handicap, got a superb start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We hit the start line at full speed with six seconds to spare,\u2019 said skipper Keith Lord, who got back to Ramsey about 25 minutes after Game Changer. \u2018It was tough going down the west coast.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We had dolphins surfing in our wake around Jurby,\u2019 said Mark Yell, who was crewing on A Crewed Interest. \u2018We had rain chasing us all the way round too.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018But we kept pace with the other boats, and always had them in range. We took a big wave off Chicken Rock \u2013 it came out of nowhere, all over the front end of the boat. There was lots of teamwork with all of us taking shifts.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were several different winners in various categories among the eight starters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018It was great to see the trophies going far and wide \u2013 to Maryport, Bangor, Douglas, and the MSCC\u2019s own James Bishop, who took the Coronation Cup for Div 2 , NHC Handicaps, with Goodrum 2nd<\/sup>,\u2019 said Jerry Colman, current Commodore of the MSCC, whose Sea-Pie of Cultra got back third on the water shortly before Kuba Szymanski\u2019s 40.7 Polished Manx at 11pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We had a really good crew. We were becalmed for an hour off Peel when the leaders slipped away. We put the spinnaker up by the Drinking Dragon and held it all the way to Maughold. It was cooler than I expected for July. It was windy up at the Point of Ayre. The crew did well in that and so did the old boat.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Bishop\u2019s first silverware in Cutlass of Man. \u2018Elizabeth Callow is a superb crew. I wanted to retire but she insisted on continuing and I\u2019m very grateful we finished. For the smaller yachts it was a beat all the way from the Point to the Calf.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodrum and Skyfall also made it back in the small hours. Cadenza unfortunately had to turn back half way to the Point of Ayre after her mast spreaders broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Ellan Vannin Maritime Centre for sponsoring the race, to race officers Andrew Dean and Yogi Quayle, and to Niamh Poole for organising the supper on Friday night and refreshments for the returning sailors on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In windy and occasionally not so windy conditions, Game Changer won the Ellan Vannin Maritime Centre Round the Island Race on Saturday. It was the Beneteau 40.7 from Bangor\u2019s third time of competing in the Manx Sailing & Cruising Club\u2019s annual race, and it managed to get round in just over nine and a half…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3808\/revisions\/3812"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msandcc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}