Congratulations to Keith Jamieson and Maf Smith on attaining second overall in the Flying Fifteen Classic Nationals held at Abersoch last week. Word has it he was beaten by age!
Saturday’s racing was held in light to medium airs with a turnout of 10 boats for the 2nd fleet challenge trophy of the season. The asymmetrics weren’t able to gain ground offwind because of the lack of gusts, so it was Tim Smith that took the overnight lead.
Roy and Kayla had some close racing with William and Lesley for the first couple of races, indeed William only got past in the second race when Roy hit the windward mark – Roy must have thought he could walk on water at that stage because he had been flying the gennaker on a leg so close that it could have been a beat, and still managing to luff William.
Congratulations to Toddy and Ron for biting the bullet and entering the series. Toddy just can’t seem to stop laughing (even when he misses out marks!). Toddy had another good day on Sunday – capsized, couldn’t work out where the buoys are (but was told the secret that even marks have a white band). Get out there and join them
Sunday’s racing was held in better winds – too much like hard work for Rhonny (or so she claimed) especially with a full rig. Paul Burnell, Tim Chittenden, Ian Macpherson, and Arnie Helling all went swimming. Roy and Kayla wondered what else could go wrong – decided it could be a collision and it was! Mike Fairlamb, whilst avoiding hitting the committee boat, and taking out the OD, tacked and had to tack again to avoid hitting Roy, but the merging of their boats meant it was time to do some turns!
Stuart Brookes had a good day’s racing, but having to count a DNS put him out of the reckoning. Anyway, after an eventful three races, all was over just after 3pm which gave everyone plenty of time to get home for the football. It was Tim Chittenden that came out on top after counting a 3rd for being OD on Saturday.
Overall results
FLEET CHALLENGE B
PN Boat Helm Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts
1 160516 T CHITTENDEN LAS OD DNS DNS 1 2 2 8
2 70142 T SMITH MS 3 2 1 5 10 DNS 11
3 937 W CARRUTHERS RS400 4 3 2 OD DNS DNS 12
4 114 T FLYNN M16 5 1 3 4 8 RTD 13
5 167828 S HALL LAS 2 5 4 6 7 5 16
6 167828 I MACPHERSON LAS 1 8 7 7 5 6 19
7 3520 S BROOKES FF DNS DNS DNS 2 1 1 22
8 173813 P BURNELL RS400 8 4 6 DNS DNS 4 22
9 13885 M FAIRLAMB GP 6 7 5 8 9 DNS 26
10 91029 R BLACKBURN RS400 7 6 RTD 10 RTD DNS 34
11 125514 R BRYCE LAS DNS DNS DNS 9 6 3 36
12 21863 D TODHUNTER MS 9 RTD 8 RTD DNS RTD 37
13 35784 R LEE MS 10 9 9 RTD DNS DNS 42
14 40894 A BAINBRIDGE TOP DNS DNS DNS 3 4 DNS 43
15 3521 K JAMIESON FF DNS DNS DNS DNS 3 DNS 57
16 90003 A HELLING TOP DNS DNS DNS 11 11 DNS 58
17 35748 M HULL MS DNS DNS DNS DNS 12 DNS 66
Points for RTD = 11 11 11 14 14 9
Points for DSQ = 11 11 11 14 14 9
Points for DNS = 18
4 races to count