Cora 贏得 RORC Lewmar Cherbourg Race 冠軍

皇家海洋競賽俱樂部 2024 年 RORC 賽季積分錦標賽的決賽是前往科唐坦地區瑟堡的傳統比賽。

Sun Fast 3200 Cora, raced Two-handed by Tim Goodhew & Kelvin Matthews, was the overall winner of the RORC Lewmar Cherbourg Race after IRC time correction. The Royal Ocean Racing Club's finale for the 2024 RORC Season's Points Championship was the traditional race to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. The 71 boat fleet was an impressive sight, starting to the east off the Royal Yacht Squadron Line, Cowes. Combined with JOG, the Lewmar Cherbourg Race attracted 235 sailors for the last offshore race of the RORC season.

由 Tim Goodhew 和 Kelvin Matthews 兩人駕駛的 Sun Fast 3200 Cora 在 IRC 時間修正後成為 RORC Lewmar Cherbourg Race 的總冠軍。皇家海洋競賽俱樂部 2024 年 RORC 賽季積分錦標賽的決賽是前往科唐坦地區瑟堡的傳統比賽。由 71 艘船組成的艦隊令人印象深刻，從考斯皇家遊艇中隊線以東出發。與 JOG 結合，Lewmar Cherbourg Race 吸引了 235 名水手參加 RORC 賽季的最後一場海上比賽。

After a light-air spinnaker start, the main strategic judgment after leaving The Solent was choosing the best lane towards Cherbourg. The forecast increase and shift in the gradient wind, as well as the current in The English Channel, were crucial for a top performance.

在輕帆起航後，離開索倫特島後的主要戰略判斷是選擇前往瑟堡的最佳航道。預測的梯度風的增加和變化，以及英吉利海峽的海流，對於最佳表現至關重要。

David McGough's J/109 Just So was second overall and the JOG Series Points division winner. Third overall was Jean-Lin Flipo's J/99 Yalla! All of the podium boats were racing in IRC Three.

David McGough 的 J/109 Just So 獲得總成績第二名和 JOG 系列積分組冠軍。總成績第三名是 Jean-Lin Flipo 的 J/99 Yalla！所有登上頒獎台的船隻都參加了 IRC 3 比賽。

On top of overall victory, Cora was the winner of IRC Three and IRC Two-Handed; a fine end to the season for Tim Goodhew and Kelvin Matthews.

除了總冠軍之外，Cora 還贏得了 IRC 三人賽和 IRC 雙人賽的冠軍；蒂姆·古德休和凱爾文·馬修斯為本賽季畫上了圓滿的句號。

"A really nice way to close out the season," commented Cora's Tim Goodhew. "Last year we won, the final race and it's always nice to retain some of the silverware!" However the Cherbourg race did not start well for Cora as Tim explains.

「以一種非常好的方式結束這個賽季，」Cora 的 Tim Goodhew 評論道。 「去年我們贏得了最後一場比賽，保留一些獎杯總是很好的！”然而，正如蒂姆解釋的那樣，瑟堡比賽對科拉來說開局並不順利。

"We were called over the line at the start by the Race Committee along with three other boats," confirmed Tim Goodhew. "We went straight back to restart and probably only lost about eight boat lengths in a 75-mile race. Some of the others took longer to turn round, which cost them a lot more. We spent the next six hours trying to catch up with the J/99 Yalla!, our big competition in IRC three. We both had the same strategy of sailing west. We knew that the new breeze was coming from the northeast, giving a big right shift over the course of the evening. However, the big picture was that the real wind was very variable and you have to make your decisions on the fly. The goal was to maximize our velocity towards Cherbourg to the south. We didn't go as far west as Yalla!, this worked out well for us. We were in a good position when the shift came in and we profited quite nicely."

「比賽委員會在比賽開始時就叫我們和其他三艘船一起衝過終點線，」蒂姆·古德休（Tim Goodhew）證實。 「我們直接回去重新開始，在75 英里的比賽中可能只損失了大約8 艘船的長度。其他一些人需要更長的時間才能掉頭，這讓他們付出了更多的代價。我們在接下來的6 個小時試圖追上J/99 Yalla！ ，我們在IRC 3 中的重大比賽，我們都採取了向西航行的相同策略。的右移。時，我們處於有利地位，並且獲利頗豐。

In IRC Two, Ross Applebey's Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster was the winner by 17 minutes after IRC time correction from Gareth Edmondson's JPK 1030 Insert Coin. Sun Fast 3600 Diablo raced by Cal Finlayson & Maggie Adamson was third in IRC Three and IRC Two-Handed.

在 IRC 2 中，Ross Applebey 的 Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster 在根據 Gareth Edmondson 的 JPK 1030 插入硬幣進行 IRC 時間校正後，以 17 分鐘的成績獲勝。由 Cal Finlayson 和 Maggie Adamson 駕駛的 Sun Fast 3600 Diablo 在 IRC 三人賽和 IRC 雙人賽中獲得第三名。

"The Scarlet Oyster team are pretty pleased!" commented Ross Applebey. "The exit from The Solent was painful, we were struggling for speed. Nothing was really working for us but we made some small gains. We knew the conditions were going to change and after Bembridge Ledge we were making good VMG towards Cherbourg with the Code Zero up. With Scarlet Oyster in those conditions, you have to heat it up and get speed on the angle and we kept getting lifted west, so we kept going that way. In our class we rolled the dice, we were either going to win by being the furthest west or come last. After making that decision, the biggest concern was if we ran out of wind before the shift came, but that didn't happen, we kept going. The Scarlet Oyster crew has been much the same for thousands of miles, and we will be celebrating in Cherbourg!"

“猩紅牡蠣團隊很高興！”羅斯·阿普爾貝評論道。 「從索倫特海峽的退出是痛苦的，我們在努力爭取速度。沒有什麼對我們真正有用，但我們取得了一些小收穫。我們知道情況將會發生變化，在本布里奇礁之後，我們正在透過程式碼向瑟堡取得良好的VMG在這種情況下，將猩紅牡蠣歸零，你必須將其加熱並在角度上加快速度，我們不斷向西移動，所以我們繼續朝這個方向前進，在我們的班級中，我們擲骰子，我們要么會贏。在瑟堡慶祝！

In IRC One, RORC Treasurer Derek Shakespeare's J/122 Bulldog was the winner by just over three minutes after IRC time correction from Lawrence Herbert's J/133 Corazon. Third was Richard Powell's First 40 Rogan Josh.

在IRC One 中，RORC 財務主管德里克·莎士比亞(Derek Shakespeare) 的J/122 Bulldog 在勞倫斯·赫伯特(Lawrence Herbert) 的J/133 Corazon 的IRC 時間修正後僅以三分多鐘的優勢獲勝。第三名是理查德鮑威爾 (Richard Powell) 的 First 40 喬許喬許 (Rogan Josh)。

In IRC Four, David Cooper's Dehler 38 Longue Pierre corrected out to win the class by ten minutes from Gareth Penn's Contessa 32 Jemima of Farley. Dudley Stock's X-302 Xtract was third by just 37 seconds after IRC time correction from James Holmes' Laser 28 Blazer.

在IRC 四中，大衛·庫珀(David Cooper) 的Dehler 38 Longue Pierre 糾正了錯誤，比加雷斯·佩恩(Gareth Penn) 的法利(Farley) 的Contessa 32 Jemima 領先10 分鐘，贏得了組別冠軍。達德利·斯托克 (Dudley Stock) 的 X-302 Xtract 在詹姆斯·霍姆斯 (James Holmes) 的 Laser 28 Blazer 的 IRC 時間校正後僅以 37 秒的優勢名列第三。

James Neville's Carkeek 45 Ino Noir took Line Honours in the race and won the IRC Zero big boat Class.

James Neville 的 Carkeek 45 Ino Noir 在比賽中獲得了線榮譽獎，並贏得了 IRC 零級大船組冠軍。

"A great way to end the season, the increase in wind came a bit later for us, in terms of beating the smaller boats under IRC. However, we had a wonderful race downwind in up to 14 knots of

「這是結束賽季的好方法，對我們來說，風力的增加來得有點晚，因為我們在IRC 下擊敗了較小的船隻。然而，我們在順風時以高達14 節的速度進行了一場精彩的比賽。