Plum Pudding Race at Ulley Sailing Club
by Rosalie Hill 4 Jan 2012 14:03 GMT
26 December 2011
The traditional fancy dress Plum Pudding Race on Boxing Day, 26th December, brought a very successful year for Ulley Sailing Club, between Rotherham and Sheffield to a close. Father Christmas, arriving with his young helpers in his Santa Express (the club's festively decorated mini tractor and trailer), started the race.
Some 18 boats, and 28 brave people, including an assortment of Santas, elves, fairies, penguins and snowmen, took to the water in unseasonably warm but very windy conditions. Only 14 boats survived to the end of the first lap in a race which was hotly contested by many of the club's past and present national class and youth champions and the large watching crowd was entertained by some spectacular nose dives, pirouettes and capsizes.
In a very diverse fleet Jamie Mawson, this year's national RS 600 series winner, led on the water throughout but former Enterprise Junior World Champions, Mark and Simon Pinder in their Merlin Rocket won on handicap, from the club's latest young talent, 17 year old Max Nicholson (winner of both Yorkshire and Humberside Youth Sailing Association Series this year) sailing a Laser Radial.
A full set of photos can be viewed on the Ulley Sailing Club website.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Helm | Crew | Boat Type |
|---|
| 1 | Mark Pinder | Simon Pinder | Merlin Rocket |
| 2 | Max Nicholson | | Laser Radial |
| 3 | Adam Loveday | Rachel Burkitt | Enterprise |
| 4 | Jamie Ashton | | Solo |
| 5 | Jamie Mawson | | RS 600 |
| 6 | Matt Velamail | Tim Brownell | Enterprise |
| 7 | Tim Vick | Rebecca Marks | Lark |
| 8 | Georgiana Hill | | Splash |
| 9 | Dave Staniforth | Rebecca Thickett | Enterprise |
| 10 | Jonathan Holt | Tom Lawrence | RS Vision |
| 11 | John Twiggs | | Laser |
| 12 | Peter Cleverley | | Laser Radial |
| 13 | Alan Ward | Gary Benton | Enterprise |
| DNF | Mark Burkitt | Linda Burkitt | Enterprise |
| DNF | Martin Fenby | Christopher | Enterprise |
| DNF | Darren Machen | | Laser |
| DNF | David Holt | Rebecca Holt | Enterprise |
| DNF | Brian Cavell | | Streaker |