Prior claims the first series success

With 13 boats on the water, Sunday morning saw the third race in the Welland Yacht Club  Morning Points series.
With a light breeze and the odd stronger gust the start got underway without incident.
Martin Cook managed to position himself well for the start and, although the faster phantom of Paul Burton and the two of the lasers helmed by Andy Prior and Will Cook soon pulled ahead, he would still keep within handicap of them.
Despite having position on the water, Burton couldn’t pull out a big enough lead and ended fourth overall.
It was Prior who took the win with Will Cook just managing to beat his dad Martin into second place.
The afternoon saw the final two races of the Munson Cup series and, with Tom Bell on rescue boat duties picking up series average score, it was all down to Prior to manage his results and retain his series lead.
Again with 13 boats the start of the first of these races saw the boats of Burton and Cobb over the line early and having to do penalty turns.
Although managing eventually to reach the front of pack, Burton would have to settle for third with Prior taking his second win of the day.
Will Cook clinched second and Brian Cobb managed to climb back to fourth.
With the series now secured, Prior wasn’t going to take it easy and was determined to make a clean sweep of the day’s results.
With the fleet now down to 10, the start got underway without any penalties handed out.
Although Burton managed a better start and pulled out a fair lead, Prior was managing to keep close enough.
The end result was close but Prior pulled off the treble with Burton taking second, Will Cook third and Brian Cobb fourth.
The first series victory of the season – the Munson Cup – goes to Prior.