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West Australian
22-05-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Jessie James comes from behind to take the crown in heat two of Princess Royal Sailing Club winter series
Brett Hawker's division one yacht Jessie James gave four division two boats a 30-minute start and beat them all home to win by a huge margin in heat two of the winter series on Saturday. In a gentle south easterly breeze at about five knots the four division two boats took 12 minutes to get to the first mark, which is one of the shortest legs in the harbour course race. Chris Oldham had Joker out in front and moving well in the light air. Stephen Brown had Mary Maitland not far off the pace with Stephen Lee's Flasheart hanging in and well ahead of Corrine Ridgeway in Sicarius which doesn't like gentle breezes. However, there was enough wind to allow spinnakers to be used but it was still slow going. Jessie James now had the daunting task of the chase. It was fairly apparent that when the big boat started that it wouldn't take it long to to catch the fleet. Hawker had the boat moving at double the speed of the smaller yachts and was looking good. Meanwhile Brown had overtaken Joker with his skeleton crew, the skeleton was an 11-year-old junior sailor which was helpful as it made Mary Maitland just that little bit lighter. Joker and Flasheart were having their own tussle as Jessie James moved in to take the lead and glide home to a resounding victory. Brown was the best of the division two fleet taking second place with Lee pipping Oldham for third place.
West Australian
15-05-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Albany teenager Eden Gray claims coveted Princess Royal Sailing Club title to open winter series
Teenager skipper Eden Gray with his father Benn as crew, upstaged his fancier opponents to win the coveted title of Cock of the Harbour on Saturday. The race had been postponed from the previous Saturday due to the inclement weather and was also heat one of the winter series. The weather was ideal with a steady southerly at around the 14 knot mark which began dropping out towards the end of the race. It was a combined fleet with six boats from division two and Brett Hawker's Jessie James from division one. Hawker began 30 minutes after the division two boats and had the unenviable task of chasing, catching and passing the other six. In the end he passed only one but it was a brilliant sail by the veteran skipper. The start was a little chaotic when three boats broke the line and had to restart and all did quite well to get up with the others. Eden Gray, 14, in Flying Flounder was the early leader and opened up a handy lead which he held for the major part of the harbour course event. Chris Oldham had Joker moving well after a tardy start. Stephen Brown was also doing well in the early stages and having a great tussle with Stephen Lee in Flasheart. Peter Bane in Dunluce who also had to restart was engaged in his battle with Mark McRae in Sicarius and both were trailing the fleet. Meanwhile Jessie James had started and was bridging the gap in no uncertain manner. Joker found some good air and was able to pass the leading Flying Flounder and took front position where it stayed to the finish. Flasheart now chased the Flounder to the finish line passing Mary Maitland on the way. Jessie James had done well to catch one boat and recorded the fastest time in a show of force. The results were Flying Flounder first, and Joker second and fastest in division two with Mary Maitland in third place. Heat two of the winter series will be conducted this Saturday with the early start at 1.30pm.
Telegraph
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The Bay, review: five series in, and the Morecambe-set crime drama still hasn't found a memorable lead
TV detectives usually have miserable personal lives, for some reason. Just look at the ones on screen right now. DCI Jessie James in Unforgotten has a cheating husband. The new Jim Bergerac is grieving for his recently deceased wife. DS Jenn Townsend (Marsha Thomason) in The Bay (ITV1), back for a fifth series, is no different. Her problems are mundane. Her widowed mum has come to stay and is a bit annoying. Her husband is stressed because he's a deputy head and the Ofsted inspectors are coming (the headteacher greeted this news by announcing that she was going off sick with stress, leaving her deputy to face the music). She probably relishes a knotty murder case, just to distract from her home life. Mundanity is actually one of the USPs of The Bay. It feels nicely realistic in its little details: police officers complaining about the state of their office, or keeping themselves going by getting a Crunchie from the vending machine. It is also uniformly well-acted, with Leanne Best standing out in this ensemble as the distraught mother of the murder victim, and the plotting is solid. A student has been found dead and the investigation delves into her family dynamic, her university life and romantic relationship. Everyone is a suspect, and the truth is revealed steadily over the course of six episodes. Daniel Ryan is the real heart of the show as DI Tony Manning, the boss doing the best he can while dealing with the many frustrations of the job. The female officers in The Bay are all efficient, including newcomer Lou McLaren (Olwen May). Perhaps too efficient: do detectives really turn up at so many suspects' houses alone, and carry out solo arrests? And I have a confession to make about The Bay: even though I've watched previous series, when this one came around I had completely forgotten who the lead character was, other than she was a woman who replaced that other woman whose name I also couldn't remember. The show has never had a memorable lead, because the writers have never given them any distinguishing features. But the fact it keeps getting recommissioned must mean that viewers are tuning in.
