Results / RS Fat Face Racing Circuit Lymington Town SC - 09/07/2005
Thirty RS800s arrived at Lymington, braving the ominous forecast and well
prepared for a light wind weekend�..
After a bit of ferry dodging whilst launching, the race committee did a
great job of getting the racing started in a promising 8-10 knots of
north-easterly breeze. After a break from 800 racing for the majority of
the season, Tom Jeffcoate/Toby Wincer pulled out a great lead to round
the windward mark in first place. The glory was short lived only to
realise there was no need to round a spreader mark (for the 700s only!),
allowing the number one seeds Steve Irish/Martin Gotrel in Magic Marine
to gybe set and take the lead. Further back in the pack the race for the
windward mark was on, with the tide making it even harder. Lots of dagger
boards getting wrapped around the lines � pretty frustrating stuff! Not
much place changing from here on, with the Magic Marine boys taking the
first bullet of the day followed by Jeffcoate/Wincer with Spod/Jane Olive
in Sola/Harken in third.
Race two was all about tide dodging. Left paid for the tide but the
breeze was coming in from the right. After a fair bit of tacking it was
Justin Deal/Sarah Marriott who came out trumps to round the windward mark
ahead of the Olives with Irish/Gotrel third. Approaching the windward
mark for the second time and the question was not so much which way do we
go, but more like where the heck is it? After Deal/Marriott made the
classic mistake of rounding the 700s windward mark, the whole fleet then
realised that a K6 was nicely tangled around their mark, with a RIB
thrown in for good measure! The pecking order was then established with
the Magic Marine boys in first, the Sola/Harken team in second,
Jeffcoate/Wincer third and Deal/Marriott cursing their way to the finish
in fourth.
Race three and the tactics were clear � go left and keep out of the tide!
With the K6 finally removed from the mark there was a visible course and
some much better breeze than predicted. Once again Irish/Gotrel stamped
their authority all over the fleet and did a horizon job. Meanwhile Andy
Cornah/Orwin Murray and Ben/Jenny Vines battled hard for second and third
place.
Day two and what looked so exciting from the shore materialised into
precisely nothing out in the Solent; but the shorties were out in force
and sunbathing shifted to top of the agenda. The committee attempted a
start but by the end of lap one it was clear that abandonment was on the
cards.
Not deterred by the failure of the first race, the committee raised the
flags and set the 800s off on a second. A little breeze began to fill in �
and the first few 800s crept round the top mark, lead by Ben Vines and
closely followed by Russell Peters. By the end of lap one Irish/Gotrel
worked their magic (marine!) and tacked out to the left hand side which
paid off enormously putting them in top spot by the windward mark. Vines
and Peters were still well in the chase, with the Olives and David/Fiona
Sayce also making awesome recoveries to round well up there in the
rankings. It all got a bit confusing by the bottom as finally the well
awaited sea breeze made its entrance, so just to add to the comedy of the
racing kites were dropped and it was a beat across the line.
By race five a 12-14 knot sea breeze had established itself well and
there was no holding the 800 fleet back. First general recall of the
weekend and not surprisingly either with a ripping tide shoving all boats
over. The black flags soon put a stop to that and finally the 800s were
let loose on the course. Top mark and the Magic Marine boys were
revelling in the conditions. Other names well up there include the
Olives, Jeffcoate/Wincer, Cornah/Murray, Peter Barton/Suzanna Bickford
and Deal/Marriott. By the final run Barton/Bickford sailed themselves
into second place behind Irish and Gotrel. Jeffacoat/Wincer hung in there
to take third while Deal/Marriott just pipped the Olives to finish fourth.
A great weekend had by everyone � but all 800s were in agreement that
we�re never sailing on the same course as the K6�s again!
1 RS 800 Magic Marine 1058 Steve Irish Martin Gotrel Draycote
Water 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 4.0
2 RS 800 Harken/Sola 1083 Spod Olive Jane Olive Stokes Bay 3.0 2.0
7.0 6.0 5.0 16.0
3 RS 800 Sharky 931 Tom Jeffcoate Tony Wincer Royal Idgaf 2.0 3.0
10.0 9.0 3.0 17.0
4 RS 800 1054 (47) Justin Deal Sarah Marriott FPSC 14.0 4.0 4.0
5.0 4.0 17.0
5 RS 800 Pixie 834 Ben Vines Jenny Vines Imperial Poona 7.0 5.0
3.0 7.0 7.0 22.0
6 RS 800 skifftastic.co.uk 1016 Peter Barton Suzanna Bickford Royal
Lymington 8.0 8.0 9.0 8.0 2.0 26.0
7 RS 800 878 Sam Neal Mandy Bretherton Grafham Water 15.0 10.0
5.0 3.0 11.0 29.0
8 RS 800 985 David Sayce Fiona Sayce HISC 10.0 7.0 12.0 10.0
6.0 33.0
9 RS 800 Kate 881 Andy Cornah Urwin Murray Netley 11.0 6.0 2.0
17.0 BFD 36.0
10 RS 800 955 Andrew Smith Ash Davison Stokes Bay 6.0 15.0 15.0
2.0 DSQ 38.0
11 RS 800 Octopussy 890 Richard Keeton Helen Rumbold RLYC/LTSC
13.0 13.0 14.0 12.0 8.0 46.0
12 RS 800 Wet Dreams 989 Ben Schooling Tim Hirst Datchet/HISC 9.0
16.0 17.0 11.0 10.0 46.0
13 RS 800 983 Tim Boon Rich Evans Felixstowe Ferry 19.0 12.0
21.0 4.0 13.0 48.0
14 RS 800 Sail 4 Cancer 1089 Ian Martin Claire Booth Bough Beech
12.0 9.0 18.0 14.0 DNC 53.0
15 RS 800 1011 J. Ross Heather Back Hamble River 24.0 19.0 6.0
20.0 9.0 54.0
16 RS 800 926 Alistair Shires Penny Shires Stokes Bay 17.0 17.0
16.0 19.0 12.0 62.0
17 RS 800 Yogi 1012 Paddy Gamble Fiona Lockwood Stokes Bay 16.0
11.0 8.0 DNC DNC 65.0
18 RS 800 836 Derek Buchanan Elaine Buchanan Oxford 20.0 20.0
11.0 18.0 17.0 66.0
19 RS 800 Astronomy Domine 1063 R. Holdway David Ching Poole 18.0
18.0 24.0 15.0 15.0 66.0
20 RS 800 991 M. Streeton M. Roebuck HISC 21.0 14.0 20.0 21.0
14.0 69.0
21 RS 800 Baggy Wrinkles 847 Adam Stork Sam Stork Lymington Town
4.0 25.0 22.0 DNC 19.0 70.0
22 RS 800 Kaleidoscope 809 Bill Smith Philip Hodgkins Lymington
Town 22.0 23.0 DNF 13.0 16.0 74.0
23 RS 800 1052 Christian Reynolds Lucy Jones Locks 5.0 DNF 13.0
DNC DNC 78.0
24 RS 800 Oh RS again 916 Babs Emmans Roaldn Emmans 26.0 21.0
19.0 16.0 DNC 82.0
25 RS 800 L8 again 833 Pippa Baker Mostyn Evans Mounts Bay 23.0
24.0 23.0 22.0 18.0 86.0
26 RS 800 Prego 970 Simon Ward Jo Barriball Lymington Town 25.0
26.0 25.0 DNF DNC 106.0
27 RS 800 951 John Cooper Becci Wigley Lymington Town DNF 22.0
DNF DNC DNC 112.0
28 RS 800 Racey Tart 1072 Joanathon McGuire Lou-Lou McGuire Stokes
Bay DNF DNF DNS 23.0 BFD 113.0
29 RS 800 6th Element 1051 Alex Willard Becca Willard DNS DNF
DNF DNC DNC 120.0