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Result Details

Event name: Ugly SW Tour
Date: 28 March 2009
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Club: Bristol Corinthian Yacht Club
Classtype:RS200 , see more results

Bumper day for the RS200 South West Ugly Tour at Bristol Corinthian YC sponsored by West Country Boat Repairs.

The new RS200 South West Ugly Tour sponsored by West Country Boat Repairs got off to an awesome start at Bristol Corinthian YC on March 28th with a bumper turnout of 39 boats and some very entertaining racing in very varied conditions. Bristol Corinthian YC is a nearly round large reservoir in beautiful rural Somerset countryside on the Somerset levels right in the lee of the Mendips. Only snag is with location when the wind is in the north the wind comes over the Mendips and produces very interesting shifts. On Saturday the mean wind was 12-18 knots from the WNW but varied between due west and due north often at the same time on different parts of the lake giving PRO Rhys Lankester a nightmare. That four such good quality were held with relatively short delays was ample testimony to the superb work of the now slightly greyer Rhys and his constantly in action team of mark layers.

Generally it was a nice sunny day but frequent big black lumps from the Bristol direction kept on producing some very lively wind and rain although most crews did not spot the rain from the downwind spray. The leeward gate at times became a bit of an upturned hull grave yard; crew to helm which leeward mark are we going round? Answer the one with the less capsized boats around it. With such a high calibre fleet and such varied conditions there was some terrific close racing with constant place changing throughout the fleet on every leg; you never felt you were out of the race.

Race 1 and after a close tussle James Peters/Alan Roberts pulled clear to win comfortably after 4 laps from Pete Vincent/Tessa Nicholls who even by their admission had outrageous luck on the second beat and Ian Martin/Chris Martin. In race 2 Peters/Roberts, the Martins, Vincent/Nicholls, Ben Saxton/Kate Macgregor arrived at the second windward mark at the same moment resulting in Peters spinning and the Martins taking a handy lead. Vincent/Nicholls sneaked through on the third beat to win from the Martins and Saxton/Macgregor.

Race 3 and Ian Pickard/Karen Falcon got over their first race capsize whilst tacking to lead from Vincent/Nicholls but the Martins disappeared in a cloud of spray on the left to pull out a what looked like a race winning lead but right at the end of the final run Peters/Roberts found the new pressure first to just win from the fast James Stewart/Toby Lewis and the Martins third.

All to play for in race 4 and the Martins made no mistake this time again holding a handy lead with BCYC finest lardy boys Christian Humphrey and Chris “play pen” Bishop for company they at last won a race having led the previous three at some stage. Everything now depended on who finished in what order behind them, Saxton/Macgregor were second, Humphrey/playpen just held onto third with Peters/Roberts ahead of Stewart/Tobytastic. This left the Martins and Peters/Roberts both on 6 points with Peters/Roberts winning overall with one more first place.

Exe SC finest Rosie Sands/Andy Williams won the silver division in 10th place from Burghfields Ellie Martin/Katherine Lovering ahead of club mates Paul Whitbread/Neil Hayes. BCYC’s Stephen Woodward/Emma Yates won the bronze division in 15th ahead of Paul Smalley/Claire Usherwood and Neil/Lucy Chadborn from Saltash.

End of a great day, have a look at the terrific shots on Fotoboat.com. Next round of the Ugly South West Tour is at Starcross YC on Sunday May 3rd.

Rank Fleet SailNo Helm Crew Club R1 R2 R3 R4 Nett
1 gold 1350 James Peters Alan roberts Hayling island 1.0 (8.0) 1.0 4.0 6.0
2 gold 988 Ian martin Chris Martin Burghfield (3.0) 2.0 3.0 1.0 6.0
3 gold 1301 Pete Vincent HRH Tess Nicholls BCYC 2.0 1.0 (13.0) 6.0 9.0
4 gold 1328 Ben Saxton Kate Macgregor GWSC (8.0) 3.0 7.0 2.0 12.0
5 gold 1203 James Stewart Toby Tastic Frensham Pond 5.0 (6.0) 2.0 5.0 12.0
6 gold 1360 Francis Peters Dave Evans Hayling Island 4.0 5.0 5.0 (15.0) 14.0
7 gold 1130 Rob Jenninigs Mariantyhe Evangelidid Wembley 6.0 4.0 6.0 (18.0) 16.0
8 gold 1029 Christian Humphrey Magic Man Bish BCYC 7.0 (17.0) 8.0 3.0 18.0
9 Gold 1165 Ian Pickard Karen Falcon (19.0) 10.0 4.0 10.0 24.0
10 silver 609 Rosie Sands Andy Williams Exe SC (16.0) 9.0 9.0 9.0 27.0
11 gold 1049 Jane olive Darren Mcnamara BCYC 14.0 15.0 (40.0 DNS) 7.0 36.0
12 Silver 640 Ellie Martin Katharine Lavering Burghfield (18.0) 12.0 12.0 13.0 37.0
13 silver 584 Paul Whitbread Neil hayes Burghfield 15.0 (22.0) 10.0 14.0 39.0
14 Silver 481 John teague Lynn Billowes BCYC (22.0) 7.0 17.0 16.0 40.0
15 bronze 654 Stephen Woodward Emma Yates BCYC 12.0 (31.0) 11.0 17.0 40.0
16 gold 960 Jayne Johnson Nicola Mcilroy Starcross 9.0 19.0 14.0 (20.0) 42.0
17 bronze 386 Paul Smalley Claire Usherwood Weston SC 10.0 24.0 (26.0) 11.0 45.0
18 bronze 604 Neil Chadborn Lucy Chadborn Saltash (24.0) 23.0 15.0 12.0 50.0
19 silver 977 Jimmy Millar Iain millar BCYC 20.0 11.0 (24.0) 21.0 52.0
20 bronze 832 Wes Kangurs Jo Kangurs BCYC 17.0 16.0 19.0 (24.0) 52.0
21 silver 1319 Lucy Matthews Stephen Glennie Royal Navy 26.0 21.0 (40.0 DSQ) 8.0 55.0
22 silver 1285 Paul Teague Pat Teague BCYC (28.0) 14.0 22.0 19.0 55.0
23 bronze 370 Gary Parks B Parks Mounts bay SC 11.0 (30.0) 25.0 26.0 62.0
24 bronze 1365 Chris Appleton Bubbles BCYC 13.0 32.0 18.0 (40.0 DNS) 63.0
25 bronze 589 Matt Dry Hanna sandsham BCYC 23.0 20.0 20.0 (27.0) 63.0
26 bronze 1164 Emma Johnson Eve Williams SCSC 21.0 (26.0) 21.0 22.0 64.0
27 bronze 1361 Julian Sawyer Lynn Sawyer BCYC 27.0 25.0 16.0 (32.0) 68.0
28 silver 464 Liz Teague Pete Cruickshank BCYC 25.0 13.0 (40.0 DNS) 40.0 DNS 78.0
29 bronze 593 Chris Bower Paul Coates South Cerney/ Parkstone (35.0) 18.0 31.0 29.0 78.0
30 bronze 728 Jon Jenkins Sam Barker castle Cove (40.0 DNF) 29.0 27.0 25.0 81.0
31 bronze 826 Charle Richardson Kerry Pinker BCYC 30.0 (40.0 DNF) 29.0 23.0 82.0
32 bronze 904 Mike Riley Dave Martin BCYC 29.0 (33.0) 23.0 31.0 83.0
33 bronze 1342 sarah Green David Green BCYC (32.0) 28.0 28.0 28.0 84.0
34 bronze 924 Tina Mackie Matt Buckle Torpoint Mosquito 31.0 27.0 (40.0 DNS) 33.0 91.0
35 bronze 411 Will rhodes chris Chorlton BCYC (36.0) 34.0 30.0 34.0 98.0
36 bronze 457 John hibberd Sarah Tauwhare BCYC 34.0 35.0 (40.0 DSQ) 30.0 99.0
37 bronze 323 Nic jefferis Trevor Baker 33.0 (40.0 DNF) 40.0 DNS 40.0 DNS 113.0
38 brionze 327 Sally campbell Irene Griffih BCYC (40.0 DNF) 40.0 DNF 40.0 DNS 40.0 DNS 120.0
38 bronze 1111 John Havey James Grant Mounts bay sailing club (40.0 DNF) 40.0 DNF 40.0 DNS 40.0 DNS 120.0
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