Results / Sprint Championships Rutland SC - 12/04/2014
Photos by Lucy Preston:
1st Gold - Tommy Wright & Ally Martin
1st Silver - Peter Nelson & Nic Holden
The twenty 200s were one of several flavours of RS gathered for their annual splash and dash, The Sprints. Ignore those who say the format is kerazy, bada-bing, bada-boom, the Rutland people have it off to a ‘T’ (thanks to John Fothergill, David Rowlands and team). It is fun, and intense, and there isn’t much hanging around between the twelve, one lap races, coloured flights (on day 1), no discards, and general recalls involve the entire fleet restarting round the ends of the line – the 3 minutes between fleet starts never stops. The two-day format is pretty binary, Saturday’s results determining whether you were in Gold or Silver fleet on Sunday.
Day one was cold and a force 4-5. Which was a shame for lightweight team (The Killer Shrimp) and me – she may be perfectly formed but properly tiny and underclothed that morning. I stacked it on the same tight gybe .... twice. After the second time we got going – and having plucked her from the raging vortex of the self bailer – she was so cold she couldn’t speak - I headed shore-wards. Therefore Claire Walsh reports:
‘In a slight change to previous years formats we began randomly assigned to 4 flights and did 3 races in a round robin to provide seeding for the racing after lunch. With the breeze in a south westerly direction, the shelter of the clubhouse made it seem deceptively warm and non-breezy, something which was soon corrected as we all planed our way down to the damn in about 18-20 knts and wished we hadn’t thought hikers and a rash vest was a good idea…
The first round robin saw some very mixed results for the majority of the fleet as boat handling was tested by the very gusty conditions and short courses. After the round robin we went back ashore for a quick lunch, the addition of about 4 layers and our new flights. The afternoon saw a further three races in those two flights, and with the breeze dropping down just a touch the racing became incredibly close with Ian and Chloe Martin and Ali Martin and Tommy Wright showing the most consistent form in group 1 and Caroline Martin and MJ Gifford with an impressive score line from group 2.
Back ashore (but sadly not in time for rounders) we rallied round the Rutland bar, for some nice rum to soothe our aches and get prepped for the next round of gold and silver fleet racing the following day.’
Sunday dawned sunny and less breezy. But this was the Midlands in Spring – when we got out to the other end of the lake, it was a robust force 4 or so. Having defaulted myself out of contention for the gold fleet Saturday (instead I sat in a hot bath all afternoon with a large Jack Daniels), Claire Walsh says of the Gold fleet:
‘ ... 6 races back to back were scheduled and we moved, into the southern arm of the reservoir. As we got there it turned out, yet again, to be surprisingly windy and with the change in sailing area we saw even shiftier and gustier conditions. Tom Wright and Ali Martin were on great form with blistering speed downwind seeing them win 3 races. Other race highlights included bullets from newcomers Richard and Luke Bailey (with an interesting pin end start) as well as Caroline Martin and MJ Gifford. The shifty conditions challenged everyone and some very high tension mark roundings made for an adrenaline filled day. In the end Ian and Chloe Martins consistent scores saw them take 2nd place to Tom and Ali followed by Claire Walsh and Darren McNamara in 3rd.'
In the Silver Fleet, I made a complete ‘barker’s egg’ of the first two starts (an Ulsterism, and something definitely worse than a dog’s breakfast). ‘Call Me’ Dave Jessop with Megan Chamberlain and Keith Escritt and Andrea Clough won these races. A change in strategy for Team Bradley – crew today drysuited (her ‘yowser trousers’), and we port tacked the next 4 starts – a nice, long, under-populated line, albeit pretty unbiased. Peter Nelson and Nic Holden pipped us in race 3, but we returned the favour in race 5, and John McKelvie and Sarah Watson won the 6th race. No discards meant consistency was key – nothing silly upwind, pop the hull offwind, avoid undignified wetness. Peter Nelson and Nic Holden of Northampton SC won from the Killer Shrimp and me (Wembley SC). 4 of the 6 winners had ex ‘Pat’s’ on board - from the same corner of Strangford Lough, Norn Iron.
Great format, huge fun. Plagiarism being quicker than original thought, we have *ahem* adopted the format for an annual fixture at Wembley Sailing club – it works very well, is a change to the usual 1-hour slog, the RO never gets bored and we’ll repeat this year. Fleets used to more orthodox racing will initially regard the format with the expression you get teaching a dog a card trick, but once they’ve done it, they love it.
Next 200 event is the SEAS Saturday 26 April, Bough Beech. Details of this and other upcoming events are all at http://uk.rs200sailing.org/index.asp?selection=Events&Fleet=RS200
Julian Bradley & Claire Walsh
Sailwave results for RS Sprints 2014 at 2014
RS Sprints 2014
Results are final as of 17:09 on April 13, 2014
RS200 Gold Fleet
Rank | Fleet | Sail No | Club | Helm | Crew | Rating | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total | Nett |
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1st | RS200 Gold | 1554 | Thomas Wright | Ally Martin | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 12 | ||
2nd | RS200 Gold | 1354 | Burghfield SC | Ian Martin | Chloe | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 16 | |
3rd | RS200 Gold | 1510 | Bristol Corinthian YC | Claire Walsh | Darren McNamara | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 22 | |
4th | RS200 Gold | 940 | Island Barn Reservoir SC | Dicken Maclean | Hannah Young | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 25 | |
5th | RS200 Gold | 566 | Richard Bailey | Luke Bailey | 3 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 37 | 37 | ||
6th | RS200 Gold | 1422 | Burghfield SC | Caroline Martin | Michael John Gifford | 11 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 41 | 41 | |
7th | RS200 Gold | 1072 | Roundhill SC | Neil Barrett | Sophie Jones | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 45 | 45 | |
8th | RS200 Gold | 1325 | Lancing SC | Charlotte Savage | Mike Wood | 10 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 45 | 45 | |
9th | RS200 Gold | 1515 | Daniel Lewis | Martyn Lewis | 12 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 52 | 52 | ||
10th | RS200 Gold | 1173 | Northampton Sailing Club | Chris Larr | Abigail Larr | 5 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 55 | 55 | |
11th | RS200 Gold | 1228 | Joe Adams | Emma Lucas | 7 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 55 | 55 | ||
12th | RS200 Gold | 1423 | Wembley Sailing Club | Steve Janering | Chloe Sideris | 9 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 13 DNF | 65 | 65 |
RS200 Silver Fleet
Rank | Fleet | Sail No | Club | Helm | Crew | Rating | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total | Nett |
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1st | RS200 Silver | 975 | Northampton SC | Peter Nelson | Nic Holden | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 20 | |
2nd | RS200 Silver | 1263 | Wembley SC | Julian Bradley | Helen Cafferata | 7 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 24 | |
3rd | RS200 Silver | 1347 | Papercourt SC | David Jessop | Megan Chamberlain | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 24 | |
4th | RS200 Silver | 968 | Yorkshire Dale SC | Keith Escritt | Andrea Clough | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 25 | 25 | |
5th | RS200 Silver | 1154 | Royal Harwich YC | James Williams | Sarah Tuppen | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 26 | |
6th | RS200 Silver | 1546 | Strangford Lough YC | John McKelvie | Sarah Watson | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 30 | |
7th | RS200 Silver | 1340 | Charlotte Dobson | Lucy Preston | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 DNF | 11 DNS | 35 | 35 | ||
8th | RS200 Silver | 1444 | Jody Warner | Emma Warner | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 38 | 38 | ||
9th | RS200 Silver | 965 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 11 DNS | 55 | 55 | ||||
10th | RS200 Silver | 1237 | 11 DNS | 11 DNS | 11 DNS | 11 DNS | 11 DNS | 11 DNS | 66 | 66 |
RS300 Gold Fleet
Rank | Fleet | Sail No | Club | Helm | Crew | Rating | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total | Nett |
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1st | RS300 Gold | 370 | Phil Bishop | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | |||
2nd | RS300 Gold | 523 | Burghfield SC | Harry McVicar | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 26 | ||
3rd | RS300 Gold | 323 | Wembley Sailing Club | Matt Jenkins | 4 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 29 | ||
4th | RS300 Gold | 481 | Martin Harrison | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 31 | 31 | |||
5th | RS300 Gold | 411 | Royal Harwich YC | Steve Bolland | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 DNF | 13 DNS | 35 | 35 | ||
6th | RS300 Gold | 426 | Papercourt SC | Richard Le Mare | 6 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 40 | 40 | ||
7th | RS300 Gold | 518 | Roundhill SC | Luke Pepper | 5 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 40 | 40 | ||
8th | RS300 Gold | 500 | Burghfield SC | Pete Ellis | 7 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 45 | 45 | ||
9th | RS300 Gold | 335 | Lancing SC | Sam Knight | 10 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 46 | 46 | ||
10th | RS300 Gold | 524 | Strangford Lough YC | Matt Sargent | 11 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 46 | 46 | ||
11th | RS300 Gold | 476 | Bristol Corinthian YC | Steve Sallis | 9 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 53 | 53 | ||
12th | RS300 Gold | 354 | Northampton Sailing Club | Mark Newton | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 78 | 78 |
RS300 Silver Fleet
Rank | Fleet | Sail No | Club | Helm | Crew | Rating | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total | Nett |
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1st | RS300 Silver | 410 | Northampton SC | Tom Moore | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||
2nd | RS300 Silver | 478 | James Cowlishaw | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 20 | |||
3rd | RS300 Silver | 526 | Draycote Water SC | Mark Donnelly | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 27 | ||
4th | RS300 Silver | 450 | Wembley SC | Mark Henman | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 28 | 28 | ||
5th | RS300 Silver | 417 | Dan Treloar | 6 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 28 | |||
6th | RS300 Silver | 321 | Island Barn Reservoir SC | Andy Bayliss | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 13 DNF | 29 | 29 | ||
7th | RS300 Silver | 415 | Andrew Belson | 8 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 38 | |||
8th | RS300 Silver | 386 | John Moore | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 13 DNF | 13 DNS | 53 | 53 | |||
9th | RS300 Silver | 406 | Jim Strother | 9 | 8 | 9 | 13 DNF | 13 DNS | 7 | 59 | 59 | |||
10th | RS300 Silver | 379 | Dan Skinner | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 78 | 78 | |||
10th | RS300 Silver | 456 | Yorkshire Dale SC | Ross McKissock | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNF | 78 | 78 | ||
10th | RS300 Silver | 525 | Barry Steel | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 78 | 78 |
RS400 Gold Fleet
Rank | Fleet | Sail No | Club | Helm | Crew | Rating | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total | Nett |
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1st | RS400 Gold | 1215 | Y Felinheli | Josh Metcalfe | Patrick Metcalfe | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 14 | |
2nd | RS400 Gold | 1383 | Frensham Pond SC | Nick Craig | Toby | 13 DNF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 19 | |
3rd | RS400 Gold | 1186 | Leigh & Lowton SC | Dave Exley | Jo Hartigan | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 24 | |
4th | RS400 Gold | 1418 | QMSC | Howard Farbrother | Dan Martin | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 28 | |
5th | RS400 Gold | 422 | Jonathan Swain | Craig Williamson | 5 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 30 | ||
6th | RS400 Gold | 1161 | N/A | Ben Robertson | Pete Snowdon | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 43 | 43 | |
7th | RS400 Gold | 1342 | Arun YC | Jack Holden | Hannah Parr | 6 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 13 DNS | 45 | 45 | |
8th | RS400 Gold | 1395 | Leigh & Lowton SC | Paul Allen | Michael Allen | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 47 | 47 | |
9th | RS400 Gold | 1340 | GWSC | Sam Neal | A Johnson | 13 DNF | 7 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 52 | 52 | |
10th | RS400 Gold | 1296 | Bartley SC | Howard Eeles | John Knight | 8 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 53 | 53 | |
11th | RS400 Gold | 946 | Nick Eaves | Dave Prosser | 9 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 13 DNF | 13 DNS | 63 | 63 | ||
12th | RS400 Gold | 1344 | Roger O'Gorman | Roger Craig | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 78 | 78 |
RS400 Silver Fleet
Rank | Fleet | Sail No | Club | Helm | Crew | Rating | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Total | Nett |
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1st | RS400 Silver | 725 | Budworth SC | Bill Kenyon | Andy Dawson | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 14 | |
2nd | RS400 Silver | 1051 | Netley SC | Matt Sheahan | Ellie Sheahan | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 16 | |
3rd | RS400 Silver | 1131 | Welton SC | Ben Williamson | Fay Wheldon | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 18 | |
4th | RS400 Silver | 697 | Bartley SC | Richard Ashwell | Matthew Jones | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 26 | |
5th | RS400 Silver | 628 | Bob Peak | Barry Garrad | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 35 | 35 | ||
6th | RS400 Silver | 1101 | QMSC | Simon Baker | David Rueda | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 39 | 39 | |
7th | RS400 Silver | 1175 | Bartley Green SC | Shawn Woodcock | Tony Cliff | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 40 | 40 | |
8th | RS400 Silver | 1168 | Alton Water SC | Oli Harris | Ed Deacon | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 46 | 46 | |
9th | RS400 Silver | 1216 | Leigh & Lowton SC | Caroline Exley | Jude Allen | 13 DNF | 9 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 53 | 53 | |
10th | RS400 Silver | 1275 | Hickling Broad SC | David Hearsum | Gareth Fay | 8 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 13 DNF | 13 DNS | 59 | 59 | |
11th | RS400 Silver | 1416 | Norman Bell | Barbara Bell | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 DNF | 13 DNS | 67 | 67 | ||
12th | RS400 Silver | 983 | Kevin Podger | Heather Chipperfield | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 13 DNS | 78 | 78 |
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