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2002 Reports

Whether it’s because some of the details of a busy season quickly started to become confused or simply because I couldn’t quite face the job, I made no attempt to write reports of everything this year, finding it simpler to copy what I could from ‘Flypaper’ and adding the account of our epic Clyde delivery trip. So a significant part of our programme is likely to stay unreported, although I did initially intend to write up the Round Mull Race and West Highland Week while I could still remember them...

• Hot Toddy Trophy
  An exciting first outing of the year, but averaging 7 knots for over 5 hours still wasn’t good enough!
• J & A Forteith Trophy
  The sorry tale of how we had Farr Out where we wanted her and blew it!
• Glencoe Regatta
  How could I omit our historic line honours win in the Passage Race?
• Round Mull Race
  Quite a windy race, and the first in four years where we failed to win a leg.
• West Highland Week
  A second consecutive consistent showing at our favourite regatta, culminating in a final day race win.
• Clyde Delivery Trip
  25 hours to log 140 miles between Oban and Crinan after retreating from the the Mull of Kintyre in a SE’ly force 9!
• Cumbraes Weekend
  Lovely late summer racing for a very tired crew.
• Scottish Two-Handed Race
  Effectively out of touch after taking a pasting on the first brisk beat, but some kind of achievement to finish at all!

Some of the events in which Fly competed but I haven’t written up were Oban Town Regatta, Lochaber Regatta (where discretion proved the better part of valour for a novice crew in fresh conditions), Round Balnagowan, the Ardgour Double and Bute Regatta Weekend. A few club races I can barely remember have also escaped the net, although perhaps I should at least mention being part of Hutch’s victorious OSC First Keelboat Aggregate crew and the lucky skipper who drew her for the Swap Helms ‘drifting match’ on a quiet night when Twig came second in Fly!

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