Race 08 had the smallest field in the series so far, with only nine starters, but the moderate north-easterly conditions obviously suited Sheer Force with us finishing 2nd on handicap and 5th outright. On corrected times, we were 35 seconds behind the winner Chloe III (which, coincidentally, crossed the line exactly 35 seconds behind us on the water). In the end, the committee boat could not separate Sheer Force from Out of Sight - we both registered the same elapsed time of 1:06:59. Out of Sight is not in the Full Series pointscore (she may be in the Lite Series) and has not been in the RANSA handicap lists to date.
It's not surprising we weren't too sure where other yachts were. Apart from Chloe and Out of Sight, which were close to us, the 4 yachts which beat us were from almost 3 minutes to 13 minutes ahead, and the 2 behind us were 4 minutes back.
The table below shows the 9 yachts in the order we crossed the line:-
| Results Race08 | Elapsed | Outright | Handicap | Diff fm | Mins | Rel to |
| Time | Place | Predict | Fleet | behind | Sheer | |
| Place | Average | winner | Force | |||
| PANTHER | 0:54:13 | 1 | 1 | -11.1 | 0:00:00 | 0:12:46 |
| SCARLETT O'HARA | 1:02:34 | 2 | 3 | -2.7 | 0:08:21 | 0:04:25 |
| TOCCATA | 1:02:37 | 3 | 2 | -2.7 | 0:08:24 | 0:04:22 |
| SYMBIOSIS | 1:04:16 | 4 | 4 | -1.0 | 0:10:03 | 0:02:43 |
| SHEER FORCE | 1:06:59 | 5 | 6 | 1.7 | 0:12:46 | 0:00:00 |
| OUT OF SIGHT | 1:06:59 | 5 | 5 | 1.7 | 0:12:46 | 0:00:00 |
| CHLOE III | 1:07:34 | 7 | 9 | 2.3 | 0:13:21 | 0:00:35 |
| AMON RA | 1:11:01 | 8 | 8 | 5.7 | 0:16:48 | 0:04:02 |
| ANTHANTA VI | 1:11:32 | 9 | 7 | 6.2 | 0:17:19 | 0:04:33 |
| Corrected | Corrected | |||||
| Time | Position | |||||
| PANTHER | 1:06:46 | 8 | ||||
| SCARLETT O'HARA | 1:02:50 | 3 | ||||
| TOCCATA | 1:07:26 | 9 | ||||
| SYMBIOSIS | 1:03:11 | 4 | ||||
| SHEER FORCE | 1:02:33 | 2 | ||||
| OUT OF SIGHT | 1:05:39 | 6 | ||||
| CHLOE III | 1:02:08 | 1 | ||||
| AMON RA | 1:05:33 | 5 | ||||
| ANTHANTA VI | 1:06:33 | 7 |
This table shows that Sheer Force's elaspsed time was only 1.7mins slower than the fleet average, our second best race in the series on this statistic. This is the performance necessary for us to win a prize in this Division 1 field.
With the smallish fleet, the handicapper got the finishing sequence pretty right. The biggest "surprises" were that Chloe crossed the line 7th (expected to be 9th) and Anthanta was 9th (expected to be 7th). By reducing an elapsed spread of 17:19 to a corrected spread of 5:17, the handicapping system got its best score so far, 69%.
Barring any late corrections, the Full Series pointscore table after Race 08 will look like:-
| Points after Race08 | Points | Place | Lowest Drop |
| UPLIFT | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| SUNDOWNER V | 11 | 2 | 6 |
| ANTHANTA VI | 13 | 3 | 13 |
| PANTHER | 14 | 4 | 7 |
| CADENZA | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| SYMBIOSIS | 16 | 6 | 6 |
| SCARLETT O'HARA | 18 | 7 | 9 |
| SPEARHEAD | 20 | 8 | 8 |
| SHEER FORCE | 20 | 8 | 9 |
| CHLOE III | 22 | 10 | 11 |
| FARR LAP | 24 | 11 | 24 |
| TOCCATA | 24 | 11 | 13 |
| SUMMERSALT | 24 | 11 | 10 |
| LOVE BYTE | 26 | 14 | 24 |
| GETAWAY SAILING.COM | 33 | 15 | 12 |
| AMON RA | 37 | 16 | 15 |
| DJ2 BOS GLOBAL | 56 | 17 | 17 |
| CHANCELLOR | 60 | 18 | 24 |
| OBSESSION | 61 | 19 | 24 |
| X3 | 62 | 20 | 24 |
| DISTRACTION | 82 | 21 | 24 |
| PANACEA | 83 | 22 | 24 |
| AKELA | 84 | 23 | 24 |
Our good result last night will promote Sheer Force to equal 8th with Spearhead. Prior to Race 08, we were in 13th place. We will be on 20 pts, with the series leaders on 8 to 13 pts. Of course, this second place gives us a good start in the post-New Year 8 race Twilight Lite series (best 6 races count).
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