TMSC Solo open meeting 2022

As you know, I am a keen dinghy racer, usually racing two or three times a week year round. So I was happy to give something back when my club, Torpoint Mosquito SC, https://www.tmsc.org.uk/ asked me to be race officer for their inaugural Solo open meeting. https://www.solosailing.org.uk/ Even for a small event (18 racers in this case) there's always a lot of organisation. This time there were 11 club members involved, some manning the safety and mark laying boats, others on shore accepting entries and calculating the results. And then three of us on the committee boat, as fortunately I was being ably assisted by Emma and Doug. For it needs at least three people to start and, especially, to finish a race. It's common for boats to finish overlapped, and even the tail enders need to have their positions accurately recorded. Then results have to be calculated allowing for 1, sometimes 2 discards. Fortunately, although the wind went round 180 deg after setting out the first course and laying buoys ( the mark laying crew had a real workout on what was the hottest day of the year) it then stayed fairly consistent and we managed to run three windward leeward races, each lasting 40 minutes. Although this video starts with a start and ends with a finish the clips are in random order from a fixed point as the camera was actually being used to record the starts and finishes. And as always with my short videos there's no audio. So no irritating music or wind noise