Yachts & Yachting — February 2018

CLUBS & CLASSES

CLUBS & CLASSES

PAUL HARGREAVES

LIJIA XU

MAMBO PHOTOGRAPHY

29er Inland Champs

A close nish for the 44-boat eet at the

29er Ovington Inland Championship at

Graam Water SC saw Hayling’s Freddie

Peters/Elliott Wells pipping club mates

Nick Robins/Billy Vennis-Ozanne on

countback to win the title.

Shiy winds below 10 knots made for

tight racing. ere was little in it between

the top ve boats in the eight-race series,

with only eight points separating these

teams. ird overall were Pierce Harris/

Ale Cogger (Windermere School); rst

girls: Bella Fellows/Anna Sturrock

(Yealm/Loch Tummel/Royal Tay); rst

juniors: Harris/Cogger; rst mixed team:

Iain Bird/Anna Rowe (HISC/Island Barn).

Wayfarer finale

and Travellers

Going into the eighth and

final event of the UK

Wayfarer Association

Craftinsure National Circuit

and Travellers Series 2017,

four boats had the potential

to be on the overall

podium. A total 20 boats

took to the water in mixed

conditions at Bough Beech.

Mike McNamara and Simon

Townsend (Rollesby Broad)

counted three bullets for

the overall win, with Martin

and Donna Rouse-Collen

(Upper Thames) second on

countback from locals Guy

and Tom Marks.

McNamara-Townsend also

won the Hartley Boats

Trophy for the Craftinsure

National Circuit Series. The

Wayfarer Travellers Trophy

for the best results in all

eight events was won by

Wilson and his crews

Wilson/Rusbridger.

South East Area

Enterprise Series

The South East Area

Enterprise Series saw open

meetings at nine clubs with

57 boats competing,.

The South East Area

Championship at

Papercourt on a gusty

October day saw Ann

Jackson and Alan Skeens

(Burghfield) demonstrating

consistent speed and boat

handling to win ahead of

Paul Young (Midland) and

local David Hodgson.

The Thames Valley Bowl

(best four results from the

SE series) went to David

Beaney and Alison White

(Wembley). The River

Trophy (best three results

from the five river

meetings) also went to

Beaney-White.

A day for the ladies

at Lightning finale

The Rum and Mince Pie

season finale for the

Lightning 368 fleet at West

Oxfordshire SC also

incorporated the inland

championships.

In a light northerly, Penny

Yarwood (Up River) took

overall victory with a race

to spare, ahead of local

sailors Caroline Hollier and

Sophie Kitching.

Yarwood was also awarded

the Bernard Patterson

trophy as the winner of the

traveller series, with second

going to club mate Simon

Hopkins and third to Hollier.

420 End of Seasons

Hatty Morsley and Pippa

Cropley gave a masterclass

of light wind sailing to

claim victory in a 30-boat

fleet at the 420 End of

Season Championship,

hosted at Grafham Water

SC, with an impressive four

wins overall from the

seven-race series.

RC44 Champs Tour

With no racing on the final

day of the RC44 Calero

Marinas Cup in the normally

windy Canary Islands, John

Bassadone’s Peninsula

Petroleum claimed the last

event of the season, the

Gibraltar-based team

including Italian tactician

Vasco Vascotto. Second was

Vladimir Prosikhin’s Team

Nika with Chris Bake’s Team

Aqua third. Slovenia’s Igor

Lah meanwhile with British

tactician Adrian Stead on

board Team CEEREF,

finished fourth and claimed

their second consecutive

RC44 Championship Tour.

Solution Inlands

In the Solution fleet at the

Ovington Inlands, Christian

Smart (Pembrokeshire)

retained the title for the

fourth year running, with

Sam Davy (Hykeham)

second and also taking the

Traveller Series 2017.

Laser Masters at

Queen Mary

Despite forecasts threatening

gale force winds, 61 helms

enjoyed 10-15 knots at the Laser

Performance Masters’ end of

season nale at Queen Mary SC.

In the Standard Fleet, local

favourite Orlando Gledhill won

the rst two races, with Alan

Davis winning the third race.

On day two, Orlando took the

title, despite the attentions of

Davis, who nished second

overall ahead of Le Grice.

In the Radial Fleet, Masters

world champion and coach Jon

Emmett took three bullets to

lead overnight. Emmett gave a

debrief, Olympic medallist Lijia

Xu gave a talk, and there was a

Laser Performance-sponsored

dinner and a jazz evening.

Emmett took three wins the

next day for the title, with

Masters European champion Ian

Jones second, Rob Cage third.

First lady was Alison Stevens.

Draycote’s day two dashed by wintry snow

Peter Gray, Rich Pepperdine and Simon Forbes

won the Datchet Flyer in their National 18.

A 72-boat eet battled it out in round two of

the GJW Direct SailJuice Winter Series. With a 10

knot westerly, the leeward mark was close to the

clubhouse for the spectators. Local Wayfarer

experts Andrew and Tom Wilson took the

handicap win in race one. Andrew Snell’s K1

keelboat’s carried him to victory in race two, with

Alistair Goodwin’s Laser in second and Gray’s

National 18 in third. Snell also won race three,

with Gray second and Goodwin third.

With a building breeze and overnight snow

forecast, the non-discardable nal race scheduled

for the second day was cancelled leaving Gray-

Pepperdine-Forbes the overall winners.

JJRE PHOTOS

Students set Fleet

Nationals record

A record entry for the British University

Fleet Racing Championships saw over

230 student sailors from 25 universities

competing at Draycote Water SC, hosted

by Warwick University SC. e 60 plus

eet of Fireys saw Matt Whiteld/Bobby

Hewitt of Southampton taking the title

from Giles Kuzyk/George Zavos (B’ham),

with Peter Ballantine/Tom Daggitt

(So’ton) third on countback.

e Fast Handicap champions were

29er sailors Crispin Beaumont/Oli

Aldridge (Southampton) with teammates

Gus Dixon-James Leetch, also in a 29er, in

second, and Will Taylor/Harry Odling

(RS200, Plymouth) third.

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