Cruisers, dayboats and dinghies mustered for the Thames Estuary Nore Race on Saturday. There were 87 boats in all – down on the usual turnout – with a freshening west wind and mostly upwind course starting and finishing at Southend Pier.

Yachting Monthly journalist Dick Durham was co-skippering Sarah, a Trapper 500, with her owner Max Lieberson, an RYA cruising instructor and two crew.

She came third in class and seventh overall.
See Dick Durham’s test of the Trapper 500 in the September issue of Yachting Monthly.