A combination of sun, high tide and a force two to three south westerly produced some great sailing conditions for the third summer series race at Salcombe.

Race officer Simon Gibbons was able to use all the estuary and sent the fleet to Black­stone followed by a trip to Yalton, Frogmore and Gerston and then a loop in the main estuary.

In the junior fleet, Max Pearce in his blue-sailed Quba won on handicap from Evie Booth in her RS Tera and in the medium handicap fleet Tom Morris in his Laser Radial was a clear winner from the Booth's Aeros.

In the fast handicap, three Merlin Rockets and a National Twelve came to the line, and Peter Cook and Janet Exelby yet again won, even with Graham and Fiona Cranford Smith making the best start of the fleet.

The Solo fleet was dominated by the 'master' Tim Law and the 'up and coming ap­prentice master', Peter Ballentine.

These two took the start and then had a race on their own ,with the master covering every move of the apprentice.

The rest of the fleet muddled along and class captain Adri­an Griffin sneaked in a capsize at Yalton; however, there are no secrets at Salcombe, as the whole fleet were told of the event at the bar debriefing after the race...

The Salcombe yawl fleet was very depleted as 12 of them had ventured across the Tamar and down to Fowey for a separate yawl open meeting on foreign Cornish waters.

Of the boats that did sail at Salcombe, David Jayne claimed line honours from Peter Strat­ton.

Juniors

1 Quba 5

Max Pearce,

2 Terra 2146

Evie Booth,

3 Topper 721

George Alexander

Medium handicap

1 Laser radial 154601

Tom Morris,

2 RS Aero 5 1517

Claire Booth,

3 RS Aero 9 1517

Chris Booth

Fast Handicap

1 Merlin 3616

Peter Cook and Janet Exelby,

2 Merlin 3769

Garaham and Fiona Cranford Smith,

3 Merlin 3621

Andrew and Tristrum Squire

Solos

1 5599

Tim law

2 4894

Peter Ballentine,

3 5601

Simon Yates

Yawls

1 28

David Jayne,

2 161

Peter Stratton