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Monday, 8 September 2008
RORC Cherbourg Race - last outing of the season....
Puma Logic and Jaguar Logic set sail on Friday evening to race to Cherbourg with an expected fleet of 52 yachts. This race was the culmination of the RORC offshore series and Jaguar Logic, skippered by Sailing Logic's friend Pete Summers, came along to push Puma hard and also join in the celebrations in Cherbourg. The weather was appalling, and for once the forecast pretty accurate.
Only 18 yachts appeared on the start line, with the rest deciding that a Force 8 southerly wind on the nose wasn't going to be fun and decided to stay at home and watch the tennis.......I think perhaps they had the right idea!
Never to be daunted, the Logic yachts set off down the Western Solent and out of through the Needles and then across the Channel to Cherbourg. Puma Logic was trying to consolidate her second place in IRC 1 Class, and for that they needed to make sure that British Soldier were in sight at all times. The maths were that if British Soldier won the race and Puma had not taken part, then they would have overtaken Puma to claim second and push Puma to third. Pen Azen emerged just after day break in Cherbourg as the Class winners with British Soldier second and Puma Logic third.
Puma spent half of the race without a mainsail up, after a technical problem, which meant that even getting to Cherbourg in third place, and not too far behind Pen Azen and British Soldier was another great achievement. Jaguar Logic came a very creditable 4th place, after having half their crew drop out at the last minute after looking at the weather, and with the rest of the team being made up of first time offshore racers, hats off to them!
The obligatory few beers were drunk, a belated French breakfast eaten at the yacht club, and then onto a rice little restaurant...........mmmm.....we always enjoy Cherbourg!
The teams were met at the finish by a Logic groupies...namely Jane, Maire, Poochie, determined not to miss out on some fun time and a few drinks with the crew.
The yachts returned safely at Sunday lunchtime, and all is well.
STOP PRESS:
Puma Logic has now been confirmed as coming 2nd in IRC Class 1 and also 2nd in IRC Overall which is a fantastic achievement for a team of relative novice offshore sailors, and a little sailing school yacht....we are VERY proud of you!!!
Posted by Philippe Falle at 5:39 PM
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Puma Logic has now been confirmed as coming 2nd in IRC Class 1 and also 2nd in IRC Overall which is a fantastic achievement for a team of relative novice offshore sailors, and a little sailing school yacht....we are VERY proud of you!!!