Brown Cup Scottish Schools Champs at Loch Earn Sailing Club
by Colin Tait 21 Jun 2007 08:01 BST
12 June 2007
Michael Gorzkowski wins at the Brown Cup Scottish Schools Championships © Alan Forsyth
Loch Earn Sailing Club hosted their annual Scottish Schools Championships on Tuesday the 12th of June. Once again the event was sponsored by Skandia and rash vests were kindly supplied by Gul to all the competitors.
45 entries representing 17 Scottish Schools were split into a 27 boat Topper fleet and an 18 boat Fast Handicap fleet. Race Officer Colin Tait started two races sailed around the clubs fixed marks both races were sailed in a steady North Easterly Force 2-3.
Roy McCubbin RYA Scotland Performance Coach and Loch Earns resident RYA coach Graham McCubbin were on hand throughout the day giving some excellent on the water coaching.
Andy Hazell Sponsorship Executive Skandia Group was once again on site to watch the racing and present the prizes.
Thanks to all the parents, teachers and club members who helped to make this another great event.
Overall Results:
Topper Class:
1st 45247, Lorenzo Chiavarini (Lochgilphead High School)
2nd 44645, Shona Ross (Kingussie High School)
3rd 26734, Megan Rupar (Kingussie High School)
4th 45013, Anna Gorzkowski (George Watson College)
5th 45408, Sean Tait (Mackie Academy)
Handicap Class:
1st Laser 179802, Michael Gorzkowski (George Watson College)
2nd Laser 182234, William Steele (Balfron High School)
3rd Blaze 540, Andrew Lines (Stewarts Melville)
4th Laser Radial 130155, Kenneth Laing (North Berwick High School)
5th Laser Radial 165745, Andy Mckeown (St Margaret's High School)
Brown Cup Scottish Schools Champions:
1st Shona Ross, Megan Rupar, Freddie Calvert (Kingussie 29pts
2nd Michael & Anna Gorzkowski,Mhairi MacDonald (George Watsons 31pts
3rd Lorenzo Chiavarini,Graeme Stocks,Rona Young (Lochgilphead 35pts