St Mawes Day dawned with fine, sunny weather and a good 20 knot fresh breeze which made for exciting racing, writes Claire Wood.

Some classes chose to race with reduced sail, but everyone had a good day's strenuous racing.

There were a number of wins by the St Mawes-based sailors on their regatta day - Working Boat Demelza, skippered by John Andrew, powered into a great win, and in the Bay Fleet, Jinja, skippered by Ian Matthews won the IRC Division I fleet.

The Twister class, who were encouraged down for the week by Christopher Hoare, was won by Crionna, and in the Ajax fleet, who are mainly based in St Mawes, local boat Amalthea, helmed by Roger Wood, won against stiff competition.

The dinghy fleet made for great spectating with some spectacular capsizes and very keen racing.

Once ashore tales were swapped at the now legendary shoreside event in St Mawes. Commodore "Bomber" Holm presented the trophies to the major race winners and the party carried on until midnight with three bands, plus an impromptu visit by the Falmouth Marine Band, playing to the many hundreds in the crowd, who by now were in party mood.

RESULTS Carrick fleet - Class H Shrimpers: 1, Mischief (N Bate); 2, Lucinda (P MacFarlane); 3, Isolde (P Arha).

Class F Flying Fifteens: 1, Local Boys Gone Bad (I Cadwallader); 2, Leeding Edge.com (T Lee); 3, Flo (D Duke).

Class V Sunbeams: 1, Polly (J Money); 2, Caprice (S Trenoweth); 3, Verony (P Badger).

Class O Dragons: 1, Rainbow (M Trebilcock); 2, Tucano (N Offord); 3, Encore (J Gibbons).

Class K IODs: 1, Kyla (J Bingham); 2, Wild Goose (M Conlin); 3, Mitzi (R Dicker).

Class W Ajax: 1, Amalthea (R Wood); 2, Athena (D Liddington); 3, Avocet (D Sharps).

Class B Large working boats: 1, Demelza (J Andrew); 2, Rebecca (P Slater); 3, Winnie (A Williams).

Class C Small working boats: 1, Zilpha (S Berryman); 2, Krystal (B Trevartha); 3, Dolly (B Prynn).

Class G Gaffers: 1, Polly (B Lawrence); 2, Emily Alice (R Lawrence); 3, Scallywag (A Platt).

Class D St Mawes One Designs: 1, Robin Hood (D and E Mantle); 2, Spinaway (R Brown); 3, Buccaneer (N Leach).

Bay fleet - Class M Multihulls: 1, Crackerjack (M Webb); 2, Flying Circus (D Healey); 3, Alderney Race (C Gladwell).

Class A IRC Division I: 1, Jinja (I Matthews); 2, Gotcha (J Symington); 3, The Clan (J Nesbitt/G Peck).

Class Q IRC Division II: 1, Miss Piggy (T and D Cunliffe); 2, Celebration (W Jennings); 3, Shenanigan (C Mulcahy).

Class J J24: 1, Jitterbug (J Hicks); 2, Zaphoo (P Owen); 3, Jiggy With It (C Brown).

Class E PY Division I: 1, Manitou (R Spragg); 2, Bee Jolly (S Hill); 3, Noon HI (J Penty).

Class U PY Division II: 1, Gordon Rose (S Dart); 2, Juma (P Azancot); 3, Amneris (P Hackett).

Class K Marieholms: 1, Saellan Vaer (G Hindmarsh); 2, Mathilde (M Davis); 3, Kalinka (P Evans).

Class D Sports boats: 1, Hiawatha (M Peck); 2, Joules Argo Rat Pack (C and A Russell); 3, Cardinal Puff (R Beauman).

Class T Twisters: 1, Crionna (M MacMullen); 2, Helix (C Hoare); 3, Acrobat (J Elwell).