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Results / RS Fat Face Racing Circuit Weymouth & Portland Sailing Academy - 10/07/2004

RS800 Fat Face Racing Circuit Weymouth 10/11 July The last weekends practice before heading out to Lago di Garda next week. And what a weekend! 20 knots plus all day Saturday, 15 knots that gradually dropped to 10 knots by the last race on Sunday. With the wind coming straight over Chesil beach, the race officer could use the entire length of the harbour to really give us some room to get motoring. Plus the satisfaction of going back to work on Monday with a suntan when it seemed to rain everywhere else in the country?! The event was shared with the 700s, 600s and K6s. Steve Irish managed to get a weekend pass to come to the event only 2 weeks after the arrival into the world of their new born baby daughter (congratulations Paula and Steve!) and cleaned up in style. Sailing with Martin Gotrel, 3 firsts on the first day meant a quick 1,2 on Sunday morning and back home to nappy changing duty! The score line on Saturday did not quite represent the closeness of the racing with Steve and Martin capitalising on mistakes by James Date and Mark Hogan, and Chris Haworth and Stuart Aston. Both of these boats lead races on Saturday and handed them to Steve and Martin with a variety of capsizes and boat handling errors. Steve and Martin sailed flawless races to take a deserved 3 bullets. Chris and Stuart ended up tied on points after day one and held second from James and Mark on count back. Rounding up the top five overnight were Ronald Miller and Peter Marshall and Alex Davies and Sarah Hughes with 4,3,5 and 5,8,7 respectively. Alex and Sarah however deserved a bonus points reduction for the most stylish manoeuvre of the day. A port tack flyer in race 2 saw them successfully cross the fleet, over stand the windward mark to ensure no extra tacks and an extra fast, stylish looking bear away as they tore round the windward mark in the lead of the 33 boat fleet... one small problem? RS racing allows you to hit marks, this perhaps left Alex with a false sense of security as he rounded very close travelling at about 12 knots? Two words? Anchor Warp?!! This was all being filmed by Mark Asquith who was 29er coaching at the time and was looking for some footage of the top 800 sailors bearing away in 20 +knots. Mpeg coming soon to the website! Sunday, and more sunshine, but slightly less breeze which the majority of the fleet were very happy with after the previous night in Rendezvous night-club. For some their second night of Rendezvous hospitality in a row, but at least less breeze meant there was less being sick on the water on day two? Toby Wincer. Steve and Martin started as they left off the day before with a victory in race one. Followed home by Ronnie and Peter, with Chris and Stuart having the worst dose of bad luck for the weekend when the shackle securing the pair of them to the top of the mast gave way as they approached the final leeward mark in 2nd. They recovered to 4th with James and Mark taking 3rd. Race two and the breeze increased slightly, the usual suspects were battling it out at the front again, led briefly by Jono Ratnage and Max Goulden who were putting in a bid for the most inconsistent series of the weekend, with results ranging from 4th to 27th! They showed some awesome upwind pace (possibly something to do with the combined crew weight of 180kg, but sailing well too!) and sometimes kept it together downwind! The leaders of James and Mark, Steve and Martin and Chris and Stuart were separated by no more than 5 boat lengths most of the way round. A proper dog fight, with James and Mark eventually coming out on top and nearly ending up aboard the committee boat finishing in rather a large gust with about 5 seconds separating the top three after 45 mins of racing. The final race of the day saw Chris and Stuart disappear off into a large lead, taking the race from James and Mark. Dave and Fiona Sayce joined the battle for the first lap, but by the second beat the two leaders were well clear, Sam Neal and Mandy Bretherton put in their best result of the weekend with a 4th. Chris and Stuart were very unfortunate with the trapeze wire breakage and without this, 2nd and 3rd positions would have been reversed, but as it was James and Mark took second. Ronnie and Peter headed for shore before the last race safe in the knowledge they had secured 4th and to get a head start on the drive back to Scotland. Alex and Sarah completed the top 5 with 5,5,10 on Sunday, just pipping Spod Olive and Jane Norris. These two boats were never far apart all weekend and we can see some beer being bet on the outcome of Garda. Although Spod celebrated his 40th birthday this weekend, so may be too old for that sort of behaviour now??! Another top weekend for the 800?s, well run by WPSA who laid on fantastic weather for us, and with close racing and close battles going on throughout the fleet. The 800 is the perfect boat for Garda and with 40 + boats expected out there next week it can?t get much better? can it? James Date.
Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy R S 800 Racing Circuit 10 - 11 July 2004 Series Series Place Sail No Helm Crew Points 1 1058 Steve Irish Martin Gotrel 6 2 1080 James Date Mark Hogan 11 3 1064 Chris Haworth Stuart Aston 12 4 1065 Ronald Millar Peter Marshall 18 5 839 Alex Davies Sarah Hughes 30 6 1057 Spod Olive Jane Norris 33 7 843 Rob Watson Nob Holmes 40 8 1054 Justin Deal Sarah Marriott 44 9 985 David Sayce Fiona Sayce 46 10 878 Sam Neal Mandy Bretherton 51 11 964 Ian Martin Chris Catt 57 12 934 Jonno Ratnage Max Goulden 59 13 1046 Charlie Coulborn Rich Burlingham 65 14 921 Ruos Gibbs Jayne Johnson 70 15 836 Derek Buchanan Elaine Buchanan 77 16 850 Brett Ellway Rory Paterson 86 17 938 Stuart Bishop Simon Bishop 88 18 989 Ben Schooling Tim Hirst 93 19 926 Alastair Shires Penny Shires 96 20 929 Nigel Furnles Matt Gotrol 97 21 1072 Jon McCuirve Lou-Lou McCuirve 101 22 1019 Tim Cutsforth Sally Cooper 102 23 1084 Matt Critchley Rob Chaplin 108 24 916 Babbs Emmans Emma Heeley 112 25 864 Adrian Coatsworth Julia Jenkins 114 26 953 Andy Picrell Grahame Dobson 114 27 907 Paul Bartlett John Parkes 118 28 NONO Pippa Baker Mostyn Evans 133 29 931 Tom Jeffcoate Toby Wincer 134 30 1015 Michael Archer Richard Williams 140 31 980 Allan Higgs Alex Lyon-Dean 147 32 956 Ian Martin Claire Booth 149 33 809 Bill Smith John Heffernan 149
 
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