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| A very warm welcome to the Royal Southern Yacht Club's 2008 Racing Programme. |
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Here on the Racing home page you will find links to the latest news, results and files.
We could not host these events without the expertise and support of our volunteer members and staff, both afloat and ashore, so I take this opportunity to thank them all.
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I wish you all fair winds and enjoyable sailing in 2008.
John E Greensmith Chairman of Sailing Full Article Here |
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 3 Sad Old Blokes Take Laser SB3 UK National Title in Largs
in Event Reports
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By: RSrn Website Team Read
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| 3 Sad Old Blokes' Take Laser SB3 UK National Title in Largs |
| The final day of the Laser SB3 National Championship dawned windless and it looked like overnight leaders Jerry Hill and his crew of Joe Llewellyn and Sam Minns on '3 Sad Old Blokes' would be announced National Champions without leaving the dock. However the wind had other ideas and by midday a small breeze had developed in the channel off Largs Sailing Club and the postponement flag came down. |
Photo by Alan Henderson, www.fotoboat.com
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| Despite going into the final day with a thirteen point lead, with the possibility of a further four races and a second discard that would come into play after ten races, '3 Sad Old Blokes' couldn't afford to be complacent. |
| The race win went to 'Bod' (Richard Hall) who sailed their best race of the championship to score their first result in the top ten. '3 Sad Old Blokes' crossed the line ninth, with Mark Rushall and his team tenth, 'Team VW Touareg' sixteenth, 'Doolali' twentieth and 'Baloo' twenty-third. With the race committee able to sail up to four races on the final day, Hill did not know whether he had the championship sewn up and the only way to be sure was to stay out and sail all the races. |
Despite going light towards the end of the first race, the wind picked up enabling the race committee to start a second race. For '3 Sad Old Blokes' it was still a case of staying out of trouble, which was helped enormously by the fact that 'Team VW Touareg' and Mark Rushall all started prematurely and were penalised with a black flag disqualification, forcing them to sit out the race.
With the pressure alleviated, '3 Sad Old Blokes' sailed a faultless race to rack up their fifth win of the championship and, when the race committee signalled that no further racing would take place for the day, the national title by an impressive twenty point margin. |
Top 5 Overall Results (10 races, 2 discards)
1, 3 Sad Old Blokes (J Hill/J Llewellyn/S Minns) 21 pts (4,1,1,1,8,1,(12),4,(9),1)
2, Baloo (M Boatman/I Turnball/J Outhwaite) 41 pts (3,6,(11),5,2,3,7,8,(23),7)
3, Doolali (C Simonds/E Simonds/G Simonds) 45 pts (2,7,9,(22),4,10,4,6,(20),3)
4, M Rushall/J Baxter/L Rushall/C Savage 47 pts (1,4,2,9,(23),13,1,7,10,(BFD))
5, Team VW Touareg (J Shelley/J Modral/C Blackburn) 49 pts (11,5,3,4,1,4,5,(23),16,(BFD)) |
| Full results can be found at www.largssc.co.uk/Results2008/Results_files/sb3/f15classd4os.html |
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