2022 Noble Marine Lightning 368 Traveller's Trophy at Sutton-in-Ashfield Sailing Club
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Race 1 The winds were a little puffy and shifty, which made for a preferred port tack off the start line. In a surprising move, John Butler started on starboard at the pin end, tacked immediately onto port and made it to the first mark in one go, being lifted all the time. He rounded ahead of Mervyn Berry, and led at the 2nd mark too. It was then that he failed the Aldridge eyesight test (50mm numbers on a cylindrical buoy from 200 metres) and headed for the wrong mark. Mervyn initially followed, but then realised John's error, and let Simon Hopkins and John Claridge through. John C briefly ...