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Article on the Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Race by Jerry Freeman
The 2010 edition of the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland race was the best in living memory; it had everything a sailor could wish for in a short-handed ocean race.
For a start there was a very big fleet comprising 56 hot boats with keen crews.
The classes were closely matched, from the first cohort of class-40 ever to contend this classic event right through to the Corinthians in class 4.
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Mary and Jerry finish the shetland Round Britain & Ireland Race
Mary and Jerry crossed the Plymouth finishing line
at 1007 on Monday. For each of them this was the 6th completed Round Britain
& Ireland Race.
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QII moves up the fleet
QII arrived in Barra yesterday, Saturday, afternoon at 1622. Kinsale to Barra in well under 3 days! In the process she did some overtaking. She was 4th in her class to arrive and, on corrected time, an unbelievable 3rd! She is currently shown as up to 6th place in the whol;e irc fleet – fantastic for a boat designed for open class racing – but it’s possible that lower rating boats still to arrive will come ahead on irc.
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Leg 1 Results
Except for the Class 40s and multihulls, which have their own classes, the Race is run under the irc handicap system. QII was designed instead for classes determined by boat length and so gets a terrible irc handicap. It puts her in class ! although she is one of the smaller boats in the fleet! So Mary was not expecting to beat many boats on irc.
To her amazement and delight the results posted at the Kinsale Yacht Club yesterday evening show QII 8th in the irc fleet of 39 boats QII sets off on leg 2 of the Race to Barra just before 10pm this evening.
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QII in Kinsale
QII crossed the Kinsale finish line at 2259 BST on
Monday. Her position in the fleet is not yet known as the RWYC's race website is
down. There were several boats ahead but none which Mary and Jerry were ashamed
to be behind and QII was ahead of a lot, including some which were expected to
be ahead.
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Race preparations underway
Over the past few weekends Mary & Jerry have
been preparing for the Race. Twohanded, they followed the SORC fleet who were
doing the singlehanded Round the Island (Wight) Race which was a good
opportunity to test different sails in racing conditions.
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QII's Refit
QII is now back in the water after a major winter re-fit. She has been re-sprayed in her original red and white colours by her builder, Steve Etheridge,at his workshop in Sway, just outside Lymington, and is looking very smart. At the same time Steve has made improvements to the area where the mast goes through the deck to stop water finding its way into the cabin, made the water ballast transferable from one side of the boat to the other operable on deck so that it will no longer be necessary to go down into the cabin in order to tack the boat as well as a host of minor improvements.
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Mary Falk and Jerry Freeman enter RBI
Mary has teamed up with Jerry Freeman to enter QII in the 2010 Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Race for the 2010 continuation of the QII Challenge.
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