Well the good news is that a Jeanneau Sun Oddyssey 37 won the 2011 Fun Race, this is an annual bash from Largs to Colintraive held amongst the Jeanneau owners. I own a Sun Oddyssey 37 but it wasn't my boat that won it was another entrant. A windy old day with a F4 southerly when we started at Largs which gave us a great run up the Kyles till about Rothesay. During the sail across, one of the other entrants, in a go faster Sun Fast 35 with fancy sails, decided to try and overtake me on the inside and maybe even intimidate me by coming so close we could have handed over a cup of coffee to him.
He failed and dropped behind, then the wind swung round to the NW and we were hard to windward for the last stretch up to Colintraive. It was all hands to the winches and sheets as it started to gust up to 30 knots with us still carrying full sail.
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Happy Crew on hearing the race
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Things all got a bit fraught about half way up the Kyle with the boats all crowding together in the narrow confines when a little bit of shouting could be heard above the sounds of winches and flapping sails.
The result, well on the day at the picnic ashore the SO 37 was declared the winner with Tarawa coming in at 5th spot in a field of 13, so not bad, though the crew didn't take it too well.
There was some dark mumblings about the No 1 result as some felt that the winner may have been a little "confused" about the start time. I understand that some of the official photos are to be scrutinised which will have the time recorded to confirm all is above board. Thank you to the crew, Julie and Dave and to Angus Scott for the beer and nibbles.
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