The Race Committee advises us that they are now seeing 10 mph from the south west in the race area so its looking good for racing to get underway as soon as the boats get out there.
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AP Is Down – The Boats Are Leaving The Dock
The Race Committee has announced the end of the postponement ashore and the AP is just being lowered on the shore flag pole so the boats are asked to leave the dock and head to the race area as rapidly as possible.
The Committee Boat is located approximately 1.5 miles south of Point Pendennis.
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The Fertiliser Is Working!
The fertiliser seems to be working it’s magic for Per Elisa’s new mast!
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Update From The Race Committee – Thursday 10.30
The Race Committee has  just made a VHF announcement to competitors to advise them that the wind spotter boats out in the race area have seen the first signs of some wind and so the rest of the committee and mark laying boats will be leaving the dock at 11.00 to head for the race area.  They plan to make a further announcement to competitors at 11.30 and have asked them to be ready at their boats at that time in the hope that they can lower the AP and call them afloat.
Stand by!
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Half Ton Humour
Half Ton Class humour is a special thing and this morning some wag has been down to the dock and delivered a little gift to help Per Elisa solve their lost rig problem
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While We Wait
While we are waiting for racing take a moment to check out this lovely blog piece on Flushing Sailing Club’s website written by one of our race committee member.
You can also check out Fi’s photo gallery from the first three days too.
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Welcome To Savills & Mylor Rigging & Chandlery Day In Falmouth
Good morning everyone and welcome to Savills & Mylor Rigging & Chandlery Day, the penultimate day, of the Henri Lloyd Half Ton Classics Cup in Falmouth. Â Everyone is on flying form here this morning, but sadly the wind isn’t. Â Right now we have sea mist and hardly a breath and as you can see from our photos flags are drooping and the harbour is like a mill pond.
Race Officer Jack Penty has made the decision to hold the competitors ashore for the time being so the AP flag is flying on the shoreside flagpole. He is going to sea to keep an eye on conditions and we hope to get racing later. Â If time permits the plan is for two windward leeward races followed by a regatta course. Â With tomorrow’s forecast being for very
strong winds everyone has all fingers and toes crossed that we can get sailing today.
Tonight we have the Championship Dinner which will take place in the Regatta Marquee from 6pm and after dinner everyone will walk over to the National Maritime Museum Cornwall where the daily prize giving will take place.
Stand by for updates from the race committee and fingers crossed that this mist burns off and we get some wind.
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Henri Lloyd Half Ton Classic Cup – Day 3 Report
Day three of the Henri Lloyd Half Ton Classics Cup was sponsored by Sta-Lok and brought a change of weather and a change of overall leader. After two days of glorious sunshine the sailors found themselves sailing in the infamous Cornish mizzle (a cross between mist and drizzle) with a south easterly breeze of around 10 to 12 knots. The swell had subsided alittle, but was most definitely still in evidence and the lighter breeze made it even harder to navigate through.
The Flushing Sailing Club Race Committee started the day with a pair of windward leeward races and then set the third course around permanently laid marks in Falmouth Bay with the finish off Port Pendennis. As the event reached the midway point the racing was closer than ever with some new faces coming to the top of the heap and mere seconds separating the leading boats on corrected times.
Mike Evans’ The Big Picture, whose crew includes Irish Olympian Mark Mansfield and top International Dragon crew Adam Winkelmann, really found their form and were top performing boat of the day with a 1, 3, 2 scoreline. They won the opener by two seconds from Paul Pullen’s Miss Whiplash with Greg Peck’s Swuzzlebubble third and Jonny Swan’s Harmony fourth. Only 46 seconds separated the top six boats on corrected time with Jean-Philippe Cau and Claude Charbonnier’s Sibelius fourth and Francis
Marshall’s Concorde fifth.
The second windward leeward race was also incredibly tight. Swuzzlebubble beat Sibelius by just one second with The Big Picture third, David Cullen’s Checkmate fourth and Concorde fifth.
Race six brought plenty of drama with a huge right-hander on the first beat which caught out Swuzzlebubble and several other leading boats, a hook around the second mark that forced the rounding boats straight back into those still beating in, and 
Harmony making an enthusiastic port tack mark approach with a stack of boats inside her which created a mini drama all of its own. Fortunately no Half Tonners were injured in the completion of this race in which defending champion Checkmate claimed her first race win of the series with The Big Picture second, Harmony third, Sibelius fourth and Miss Whiplash fifth.
With six races now completed the first of two discards comes into play and Swuzzlebubble bounces up the leader board into first 
place one and a half points ahead of Miss Whiplash. Holding onto third place with a ten point delta is Harmony while Sibelius moves up into fourth a further point and a half back. Fifth and sixth are separated by just half a point with Checkmate just ahead of The Big Picture.
With two more days of sailing, up to six more races to sail and a forecast offering everything from six the thirty-six knots between now and Friday afternoon the regatta remains wide open.
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| Jonny Swan of Harmony and Mike Evans of The Big Picture talk through Sta-Lok Wednesday (day three) at the Henri Lloyd Half Ton Classics Cup |
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Sta-Lok Wednesday Interviews
After Sta-Lok Wednesday three tough and very tight races at the Henri Lloyd Half Ton Classics Cup we spoke with Jonny Swan of Harmony and top performer of the day Mike Evans of The Big Picture.
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Henri Lloyd Half Ton Classics Cup – Photos Sta-Lok Wednesday
The Cornish mizzle was not exactly conducive to great photography today, but here are a few snaps to show you just what it was like out there.
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