Yachts & Yachting - July 2018

CLUBS & CLASSES

„7-8 July

Lord Birkett Memorial

Trophy, Ullswater YC

East Coast Piers Race,

Marconi SC

Weymouth Dinghy Regatta

„8-12 July

Sharp’s Doom Bar Merlin

Week, Salcombe YC

„13-15 July

Port of Plymouth Sailing

Association Yacht Regatta

„14-15 July

Contender East Area

Championship, Downs SC

Medway Dinghy Regatta

„16-21 July

Cork Week, Royal Cork YC,

Ireland

Findhorn Regatta and

Findhorn Week

„19-23 July

Round Guernsey, Sark &

Back, Solo Ofshore

Racing Club

FORTHCOMING

EVENTS

„22-27 July

Ramsgate Week

Abersoch Dinghy Week

„23-27 July

Cowes Classics Week

„25-27 July

Brightlingsea Youth

Regatta

„27-30 July

Penzance Around Scillies &

Back, Penzance SC

„27 July-3 August

West Highland

Yachting Week

„28-29 July

Wayfarer, Eastern Champs,

Waldringfield SC

„28-31 July

IRC and Cruising Yacht,

Penzance Around Scilly and

Back (PASAB), Penzance SC

„28 July-1 August

Deben YC Regatta

Team Padro

retain Comet

Trio Inland title

Adrian and Tracie Padro retained the

CometTrioInlandChampionshiptitle

over a weekend of glorious sunshine and

light breezes at Llangorse SC.

Fiteen teams with a mix of original

and new rigs competed over ive races at

the Noble Marine-sponsored event.

Andrew and Caroline McAusland were

second overall in their brand new Peak

Dinghy-builtCometTriowithSteve

Ashford/Martin Yeomans third and Bob

andColetteHorlockfourthoverall(irst

original rig).

During an emotional AGM, David

Talbotsteppeddownater18yearsas

chairman of the Comet Combined

Association; in recognition of his work

fortheclassanewDavidTalbotTrophy

will be awarded at this year's national

championship at Exe SC.

Ullswater Daodil Regatta snakes and ladders

UllswaterYC’sirstopenofits60thyear,the

Dafodil Regatta, attracted a 57-boat entry.

A weekend of variable conditions saw light and

ickle breezes followed by stronger winds.

In the 15-strong biggest leet, the RS200s, Oliver

Groves and Esther Parkhurst (Beaver) recovered

from a poor opening day to win three races on the

Sunday and take irst, with Martin Penty and Sam

Waller also clinching a win and second overall.

It was typical lake sailing with shits and holes

and the fabled snakes and ladders; in the 12-boat

Musto Skif leet, Tom Gillard (Sheield Viking)

appeared to have turned up with the biggest

ladder, counting ive top two results for victory,

with local Jono Shelley second.

In the Waszp leet, Daniel Hesp (Carsington)

and Graham Priestley (UYC) battled it out, with

Hesp taking irst place on countback. Robert

Richardson (RWYC) in his RS100 won the

asymmetric prize and in the conventional

handicap leet, Laser sailor Jonathan Nicoll

took the win.

Gilles Fournier's French J/133 Pintia won

the Cervantes Trophy Race ater IRC

time correction for a third year in a row.

he top three overall were all racing in

IRC Two, with homas Kneen's new

BritishJPK11.80Sunrisetakingsecond

ater a close battle with the Army Sailing

Association's X-41 British Soldier.

Forty-sevenyachtscompetedinthe

irst domestic race of the 2018 RORC

Season's Points Championship, with a

lightbreezeontheSolentforadownwind

start of the 130nm course to Le Havre.

Edward Broadway's British Ker 40

Hooligan VII took line honours in 25

hrs, 18 mins, 08 secs. British successes

elsewhere saw Nick Angel's new J/121

Rock Lobster second in IRC One; and

Ian Hoddle's Sunfast 3600 Game On won

IRChreeandtheTwo-HandedClass.

J/133 Pintia

hat-trick wins

Cervantes Trophy

he Saltash Sailing Club Tamar Packaging Spring Series was

held over four Saturdays.

he eight J/24s had diferent winners for each race, the

overall prize going to Alan Harris-Guerrero’s, Legal Alien,

which had come up from Fowey. Other overall winners of

their divisions were: IRC, Neil Trathen’s Laser 28 Elusive;

NHC, Adam James’ J80 Joie de Vivre; MOCRA, Bruce

Sutherland’s multihull Bare Necessities.

Saltash SC Spring Series

PAULINE THOMPSON

JOHN BALDRY]

PATRICIA PADRO

Whitstable YC welcomed a 30-boat leet for the H A

Briddon-sponsored 505 Nationals, which saw overseas

teams claiming the top two places. hree days of racing in a

variety of conditions saw a number of race winners, with

Tom Gillard/Harry Briddon Nathan Bachelor/Sam Pascoe

(Tynemouth); France's Philippe Boite/Matheus Fountaine

(CVSQ) and USA's Mike Holt/Rob Woelfel (Santa Cruz)

Michael Quirk and Tim Needham (Australia) all taking a

win. But it was Holt/Woelfel who took the overall victory.

Overseas teams top 505s

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