One of the brands competing for attention back than was Pontiac, which threw into the fight nameplates whose success feeds a good portion of today’s collector market, for example the GTO and Firebird. The pie was hard to get so that’s the main reason that today we have three carmakers only still in this game, namely Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge. Gaye Slater the Commodore presented all the trophies for this years Championship and Peter Stephens offered his thanks to Dave Owens and his Race Team, Flushing Sailing Club for supporting the Falmouth Firebird Fleet yet again and to Cafe Mylor for laying on their infamous "Curry Night' hospitality.In the old times when the muscle cars war was strong, the market was flooded with vehicles of many different brands, all wanting the same thing: getting a piece of what seemed at the time an ever-increasing pie. Equally for their hospitality in laying on the prize-giving at their stunning new Club House on the Quay in Flushing.
Ultraviolet's Peter Stephens and Tom Laity (together with Gaye Slater, Flushing SC Commodore) retain their trophy from 2019 in the 2021 Firebird Championship at Flushing Sailing Club - photo © Once again the Firebird fleet would like to congratulate the team from Flushing Sailing Club for organising such a successful event showcasing our performance multihull class. Jonathan Money in Orion enjoyed a well deserved third place overall after some gutsy downwind legs pushing close to extremes at times. Ultimately Ultraviolet - Peter Stephens and Tom Laity - proved to have marginally the best upwind performance allowing them to edge both races and fend off the consistent challenge of James Parker and Danny Shenton in Firefly. Steve Hutt and Adrian Hassan and had to post a retirement in order to engineer suitable repair to be able to compete in the final race of the series. Cornish Meadow despite a great start in the first race suffered gear failure. Any mistakes in boat handling or misjudged lay lines were pounced on across the fleet. Both races saw incredibly close racing with multiple position changes through on pretty much every leg of the course. All the crews enjoyed champagne sailing as they sped around the four laps of the windward leeward course. With a stable direction the Race team managed to lay a consistent course for both of the remaining races. Sunday saw clearing skies and a building fresh to strong westerly breeze across the whole of Falmouth Bay. Cornish Meadow took line honours showing once again how competitive all the boats are with a different winner resulting from each race.įirefly in a downwind battle with Ultraviolet during the 2021 Firebird Championship at Flushing Sailing Club - photo © After the enjoyable traditional curry night hosted at Cafe Mylor the first four crews retired knowing the championship was open to anyone with only 4 points between them. Both Cornish Meadow, helmed by Steve Hutt and Jonathan Money in Orion capitalising on the new prevailing conditions to lead the fleet all the way to a closely fought finish line. The final third race on Saturday proved to be a lottery with a large wind shift concentrating all the boats as they chose their gate at the end of a fast asymmetric downwind leg. With the racing being so competitive minimising mistakes was key to taking line honours and each boat took shared the line honours. Peter Stephens in Ultraviolet battled it out with James Parker in Firefly in the first two races.
Equally the competitors found they needed their wits about them to ensure they could post consistent results. Large wind shifts, both backing and veering, lead to constant adjustment from RO Dave Owens and all of his Flushing Sailing Club race team and mark layers. Saturday proved to be a day most Race Officers may have thrown their towel in but the race team manage to achieved their three planned races to all the sailors satisfaction. Two days of racing with plenty of breeze led to five memorable races for all the participants.
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