UKWA Inlands Farmoor Sat/Sun June 10/11 2007

     Whilst we had a good turnout of 80 sailors, the wind was disappointing and whilst the Team 15 sailors enjoyed themselves o the Saturday the rest of us simply sunbathed and hoped that Sunday would bring an improvement.
     This meant of course that the LWA one-day event scheduled for the Saturday was in fact cancelled.
     Sunday dawned misty but there was some wind at last. Race Officer James Palin dragged himself out of bed and had us on the water early. We managed three races in the morning and then the wind disappeared for several hours. The day was about to be abandoned around 3.30 ish when surprise, surprise the wind decided to come back again and we had two more races.
     On the main course Race One saw Rod Davis get first round the mark and held his position until lap three when Bob Ingram crept past him. An incident on the windward mark resulted in a protest from Tim Gibson, Rod crossed the line in second place but had forgotten to take his tally so the protest was unnecessary.! Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls. This brought Dave Gilchrist up to 2nd place ahead of Tim with Adrian Rippington in 4th. Alan Jackson got his act together in Race 2 and powered his way to the front, finishing ahead of Tim and Bob. Race 3 found local boy Andy Lacy in good form and he managed to hold on to 2nd place behind Tim, pushing Bob in to 3rd.
     Bob and Tim shared the honours in the last two races, with one win apiece, giving Tim the overall and Unlimited victory by the narrow margin of one single point. Alan Jackson was 3rd and Dave Gilchrist 4th (and 1st 9.5) ahead of Adrian Rippington and Andy Lacy.
     In the RSX Fleet Jacob Brubert was totally dominant, taking first place in every race ahead of Andrew Petts who carded all 2nds with the exception of his discard. James Davenport was 3 points adrift in3rd place. Kirsten O'Callaghan was 1st lady with a 4th overall in the RSX fleet, ahead of Ashley Barratt who was the one and only U17 RSX.
     In the Technos Ali Masters (7.8 Junior) won all his races except one and finished ahead of Sophie Bailey and Ryan Tilbury. Sam Sills was 1st 6.8 in 2nd place overall, ahead of Mathew Brown and Kieran Martin. Conor Bainbridge was 1st 7.8 U15.

RESULTS: (overall positions in brackets)
Unlimited:
1: (+ 1^st Master) Tim Gibson (1); 2: Bob Ingram (2); 3 (+1^st Vet) Alan Jackson (3)
Raceboard:
1: Dave Gilchrist (4); 2: Adrian Rippington (5); 3: Andy Lacy (6)
1^st Lady: Janet Pain (11)
RSX:
U20:
1: Jacob Brubert (1); 2: Andrew Petts (2); 3: James Davenport (3)
1^st Girl: Kirsten O'Callaghan (4)
U17:
1: Ashley Barratt (5)
Techno:
7.8:
1: Ali Masters (1); (+ 1^st girl) Sophie Bailey (3); 3: Ryan Tilbury (4)
6.8:
1: Sam Sills (2); 2: Matthew Brown (7) ; 3: Kieron Martin (8)

Full results courtesy of John Eskdale and Sailwave:

 

Techno Fleet Pos Class Age SailNo Helm Sex R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Total Nett 1 7.8 Jnr U17 511 Ali Masters 1 1 -3 1 1 7 4 2 6.8 9561 Sam Sills 3 2 -4 3 2 14 10 3 7.8 Jnr U17 9588 Sophie Bailey F 2 4 -9 2 3 20 11 4 7.8 Jnr U17 9610 Ryan Tilbury 4 3 1 -5 5 18 13 5 7.8 Jnr U17 717 Joanna Evans F 6 8 2 -11 4 31 20 6 7.8 Jnr U17 422 George Bowles -8 5 6 4 7 30 22 7 6.8 U15 453 Matthew Brown 7 6 5 7 -10 35 25 8 6.8 U15 9562 Kieran Martin 5 7 -13 10 8 43 30 9 7.8 Jnr 9587 Izzy Hamilton F -11 9 7 9 6 42 31 10 7.8 Jnr U17 579 Josh Leadbetter 10 11 10 8 -12 51 39 11 7.8 Jnr U15 678 Connor Bainbridge 12 -16 8 6 14 56 40 12 7.8 Jnr U17 653 Nicola Granger F -15 14 12 13 9 63 48 13 7.8 Jnr U17 1641 Jamie Ingram 9 13 -16 12 15 65 49 14 7.8 Jnr U17 9607 Harriet Ellis F 13 -18 11 14 16 72 54 15 7.8 Jnr U17 9692 Charlie Money -18 10 17 15 18 78 60 16 7.8 Jnr U17 9662 Tom Owen 16 -17 15 16 13 77 60 17 6.8 9631 Joe Bennett 14 12 -19 19 17 81 62 18 7.8 Jnr U15 3-984 Kate Strange F 17 15 14 17 -19 82 63 19 7.8 Jnr U17 650 Linsay Smith F DNC DNC 18 18 11 95 71 20 6.8 U15 9638 Cloe Bennett F 19 19 -20 20 20 98 78 21 6.8 994 Amy Barratt F 20 20 21 -24 DNC 109 85 22 6.8 9721 Alex Mitchell DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 120 96 22 7.8 Jnr 362 Avril Gibbons F DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 120 96 RSX Fleet: Pos Class Age SailNo Helm Sex R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Total Nett 1 Y RSX U20 967 Jacob Brubert   -1 1 1 1 1 5 4 2 Y RSX U20 9630 Andrew Petts   2 2 2 2 -3 11 8 3 Y RSX U20 2741 James Davenport   3 -4 3 3 2 15 11 4 Y RSX   58 Kirsten O'Callaghan F -5 3 4 4 4 20 15 5 Y RSX U17 415 Ashley Barratt   4 -5 5 5 5 24 19 Raceboard Fleet: Pos Class Age SailNo Helm Sex R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Total Nett 1 Unltd M 40 Tim Gibson -3 2 1 2 1 9 6 2 Unltd M 164 Bob Ingram 1 -3 3 1 2 10 7 3 Unltd V 416 Alan Jackson 5 1 4 3 DNC 32 13 4 9.5 V 519 David Gilchrist 2 4 -6 6 4 22 16 5 9.5 V 843 Adrian Rippington 4 6 5 -7 3 25 18 6 9.5 V 9383 Andy Lacey 7 7 2 -10 5 31 21 7 9.5 V 537 Rod Davis DSQ 8 8 4 6 45 26 8 Unltd V 148 Richard Baker 8 5 7 -9 7 36 27 9 9.5 V 7282 Brian Tilbury 6 -11 11 5 9 42 31 10 Unltd V 353 Paul Robinson 9 -10 9 8 8 44 34 11 9.5 V 538 Janet Pain F 10 12 -13 12 11 58 45 12 9.5 V 226 Joe Coulson DNC 13 12 11 10 65 46 13 9.5 V 868 Bill Keeling DSQ 9 10 DNC DNC 76 57 14 9.5 1111 Paul Leone DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 95 76 14 9.5 V 557 Graham Horsley DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 95 76 14 7.5 M 267 Douglas Starr DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 95 76 14 9.5 M 0 Christopher Gibson DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 95 76 14 Unltd M 87 Andy Mexome DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC 95 76