Results / Starcross Open Starcross YC - 05/11/2011
Final round of the 2ndhanddinghies.com RS200 SW Ugly Tour at Starcross YC on Nov 5th – does it get any better?!?!
Starcross YC were blessed with the best imaginable conditions for their RS200 open meeting on Nov 5th which was also the final round of the 2ndhanddinghies.com SW Ugly Tour for 2011.
The 25 competing boats from 7 clubs revelled in classic conditions. A bolt steady northerly straight down the length of the estuary blowing 14-20 knots all afternoon gave superb conditions downwind. There were uniform blue skies with sunshine making many reach for the sun cream with total disbelief – this is November and it is 15 degrees!!!! On top of this in the glorious weather the beautiful setting of Starcross was shown to the maximum. And then PRO Russ Gibbs and his team did a star bar job with spot on courses, start lines, race lengths and sharp turn arounds so 4 quality races were completed in just over 3 hours. Yes you get the picture your reporter loved the day!!
The racing was really the story of 3 boats top performances. Eddie “I love light shifty winds” Whitehead/Alice Kingsnorth recovered from their nightmare performances at Chew Valley and Burghfield to blitz the fleet in a truly emphatic way. Showing the fleet how to start and giving a master class in upwind sailing Eddie and Alice were in the lead in the first 3 races by the first leeward gate to win by huge margins. Pete Vincent/Charlotte “only 2 hours sleep” Cotter had the cheek to lead at first windward mark in the final race and at the leeward gate but once Eddie/Alice sneaked by on second beat they disappeared again. I get the impression Eddie would take these conditions to every event next year along with Chews beer and Starcross’s chips!
In fourth and fifth place overall were bronze fleet sailors Chris Bower/Ian Mairs (Parkstone) and Dave Sweet/Sophie Singleton (Chew VLSC) who sailed out of their skin to produce their results of the season beating many gold fleet and all silver fleet sailors. Chris and Ian’s second in the first race was a particularly fine result.
Apart from these boats Pete “Oohhhh Noooo” Vincent/Charlotte messy crew Cotter and John Teague/Pete “git” Cruickshank had their now obligatory close tussle ending up tied on points for second overall with John/cannot bring myself to mention his name taking second on basis they had one more second whereas on discard they would have been thrashed not that I am bitter!
In the silver division Tony and young Zach Freer just won in 7th overall just ahead of Darren McNamara /Naomi Pound and Starcross’s Mark and Rebecca Elkington.
Many thanks to Starcross for such a fine day; roll on the 2ndhanddinghies.com SW Ugly Tour next year.
Pete Vincent
RS200 2ndhanddinghies Series Open Meeting
Starcross Yacht Club
Results are final as of 9:44 on November 6, 2011
Overall
| Rank | class | sailno | club | helm | crew | fleet | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Total | Nett |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | RS200 | 822 | Parkstone | Ed Whitehead | Alice Kingsnorth | gold | (1.0) | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 |
| 2nd | RS200 | 481 | BCYC | John Teague | Pete Cruickshank | gold | (8.0) | 2.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 16.0 | 8.0 |
| 3rd | RS200 | 1301 | BCYC | Pete Vincent | Charlotte Cotter | gold | (3.0) | 3.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 11.0 | 8.0 |
| 4th | RS200 | 593 | Parkstone | Chris Bower | Ian Maus | bronze | 2.0 | 4.0 | 3.0 | (5.0) | 14.0 | 9.0 |
| 5th | RS200 | 1466 | Chew Valley SC | David Sweet | Sophie Singleton | bronze | 4.0 | 5.0 | (7.0) | 6.0 | 22.0 | 15.0 |
| 6th | RS200 | 960 | SYC | Jayne Johnson | Nicola McIlroy | gold | 5.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | (8.0) | 25.0 | 17.0 |
| 7th | RS200 | 1451 | Chew Valley SC | Tony Freer | Zach Freer | silver | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | (10.0) | 31.0 | 21.0 |
| 8th | RS200 | 993 | ? | Darren McNamara | Naomi Pound | silver | (15.0) | 9.0 | 13.0 | 4.0 | 41.0 | 26.0 |
| 9th | RS200 | 1048 | SYC | Mark Elkington | Rebecca Elkington | silver | 7.0 | (26.0 DNF) | 5.0 | 14.0 | 52.0 | 26.0 |
| 10th | RS200 | 307 | Parkstone | Peter Eyre | Nina Norden | silver | 10.0 | 11.0 | (22.0) | 7.0 | 50.0 | 28.0 |
| 11th | RS200 | 1285 | BCYC | Paul Teague | Pat Teague | gold | 9.0 | 8.0 | 11.0 | (15.0) | 43.0 | 28.0 |
| 12th | RS200 | 1437 | Chew Valley SC | Dave Oakey | Jeannie Oakey | silver | 16.0 | (18.0) | 9.0 | 9.0 | 52.0 | 34.0 |
| 13th | RS200 | 777 | SYC | Richard Garry | Max Hodges | silver | 13.0 | (21.0) | 10.0 | 11.0 | 55.0 | 34.0 |
| 14th | RS200 | 848 | Chew Valley SC | Nick Martindale | Henry Martindale | silver | 11.0 | 10.0 | 14.0 | (16.0) | 51.0 | 35.0 |
| 15th | RS200 | 486 | SYC | Jon James | Franco Marenco | bronze | 18.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | (21.0) | 63.0 | 42.0 |
| 16th | RS200 | 1364 | SYC | Simon Greenslade | Rosie Greenslade | silver | 14.0 | 16.0 | 16.0 | (26.0 DNF) | 72.0 | 46.0 |
| 17th | RS200 | 1111 | Mounts Bay | Pippa Baker | Mostyn Evans | ? | 19.0 | 15.0 | (20.0) | 13.0 | 67.0 | 47.0 |
| 18th | RS200 | 465 | Exe | Orkun Soyer | George Melborne | silver | (26.0 DNF) | 13.0 | 15.0 | 20.0 | 74.0 | 48.0 |
| 19th | RS200 | 609 | Exe | Rosie Sands | Charlotte Coleman | gold | 12.0 | 19.0 | (26.0 DNF) | 18.0 | 75.0 | 49.0 |
| 20th | RS200 | 418 | Exe | Liz Teague | Rosie Davies | gold | (26.0 DNF) | 20.0 | 21.0 | 12.0 | 79.0 | 53.0 |
| 21st | RS200 | 924 | SYC | Tina Mackie | Mike Mackie | ? | 17.0 | 14.0 | (26.0 DNF) | 22.0 | 79.0 | 53.0 |
| 22nd | RS200 | 904 | Chew Valley SC | Mike Riley | Mary Hill | bronze | (21.0) | 17.0 | 19.0 | 19.0 | 76.0 | 55.0 |
| 23rd | RS200 | 1114 | SYC | Charlotte Gough | Angela Bridges | ? | 22.0 | (24.0) | 18.0 | 17.0 | 81.0 | 57.0 |
| 24th | RS200 | 1123 | Whitefriars SC | Carol Langley-Johnson | Clare Knight | ? | 20.0 | 22.0 | (23.0) | 23.0 | 88.0 | 65.0 |
| 25th | RS200 | 426 | SYC | Robin Barker | Jamie Barker | bronze | (26.0 DNF) | 23.0 | 17.0 | 26.0 DNF | 92.0 | 66.0 |
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