From the left (in boats): Vicky (TMS Nacra 17), Xiao (TMS Flying Shadow), Max (TMS Flying Shadow), Sin and Cloe (TMS Flying Shadow), Julie (TMS Flying Shadow), Moon (TMS Flying Shadow), and Jenna and Amber (TMS Flying Shadow).
On the Race Committee boat: Cryptic. On the dock: Asher, Tiffini, Gnarly, and Caethes. On the pier: Arwen, Cole, and Marius.
Calm seas, with a nice fleet turnout, highlighted this weeks Cat Fight in The North Sea. With a fresh breeze of 18 knots out of the southwest, turning from of the Southeast during the second race, The North Sea regions were well behaved as no DNFs (Did Not Finish) were recorded on the day. The crowds that gathered on the shores of the islands in the Ziziphus, and Genip regions, and along the Poseidon Centre Spectator Pier and small race dock in the Eden Jakana region, relished the charged fleet-foiled feline force on display from this weeks skippers. This weeks fleet, sailing on the North Sea Copacabana and North Sea Cat Fight 02 courses, was made up of a majority of five The Mesh Shop (TMS) Flying Shadows, four sailing single-handed and one crewed respectively. Two TMS Nacra 17s rounded out this weeks catamaran fleet in the first race. One Nacra skipper opted to use her Flying Shadow with crew for the second race.
Race Director: Cryptic
Wind: SW (225°) 18kts
Wind: SE (135°) 18kts
Note:
Did Not Finish (DNF) = number of finish +1
Did Not Start (DNS) = number of start +1
Today’s winner was Julie (JulieRoyale Resident), with Moon (moonglownight Resident) second, and Jenna (jnx1e Resident) in third place. Congratulations to all of you. Thank you to everyone who came to sail and spectate.
Race Notes:
Moon (moonglownight Resident) and Jenna (jnx1e Resident) finished tied with 6 points. As they both have duplicate finishes, Rule A8.2 of Appendix A, Scoring, 2021 – 2024 World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing is used to break this tie:
“If a tie still remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.“
| Skipper | Race 1 | Race 2 |
| moonglownight Resident | 4 | 2 |
| jnx1e Resident | 2 | 4 |
In the last race, Moon breaks the tie with Jenna with his second place finish over Jenna’s fourth place finish.
North Sea Racing 