Our Final Yacht Race of the season was held on Sunday 13th September.

This was a race with a twist -- Doug Angus was organising this one and he decided to run it as a "Pursuit Race". This meant that Pegasus had an eighteen minute start over the fastest boats in the fleet ... but did it do him any good? ....... Read on to find out.

The race was sailed in ideal conditions with three laps of the loch lasting roughly two hours which was the designated time for the race to run.

Eight boats participated with the faster boats (on handicap at least) having to catch-up the slower boats before the allocated two hours had elapsed.

On each lap all eight boats had to pass through the start/finish line which was laid just off Meridian. This became increasing difficult to achieve as a two to three knot tide set up across the line much to delight of the audience on the committee boat and chagrin of the skippers as they battled against decreasing odds.

(Some even opted to scrape past the bouy and accept a 360 degree turn as a penalty.)

The pursuit race system seemed to work well as five of the competitors crossed the finish line within five minutes of one another -- this was particularly exciting against the tide. A special mention should be made of Pointer who sailed a blinding last tack and overtook at least two boats in the last minute.

The photo below shows Pointer and Amatory on the broad reach heading towards Attadale.

Steve Patch in Scamander was the first (but not the only one) to overtake Pegasus.

Scamander took an impressive first place with Rob Teago and crew in Amatory coming in second.

Scamander and crew at the finish line

Steve holding the Commodore's Cup and sporting one of his famous T-shirts! 

Below, the crew of Mhojo desperately search for some boats to overtake..... 

The fleet seemed scattered at first but closed up at the end.