GP14 Southern Travellers Circuit at Frensham Pond Sailing Club

by David Innes 21 Oct 2012 07:44 BST 14 October 2012

Seven visitors from the Southern Travellers circuit joined ten local boats for the annual Frensham Pond GP14 open on Sunday 14th October which was shared with the Enterprises.

Faced with mist on the lake and ice on the boats Race Officer Keith Videlo kept both fleets in the clubhouse until a 5 to 10 knot Northerly blew away the mist resulting in glorious blue sky light weather racing. Richard Lord and Norman Brown led the fleet away from a port biased line followed by Steve Cooper and Eugene Shrimpton-Phoenix from BTYC and Nick Clibborn from the home club. These positions were maintained for lap one after which Lord and Cooper extended their lead with James Ward / Richard Whitehill of Papercourt SC coming through to third and David Innes /Jon Denyer from Frensham in fourth these positions being maintained until the finish.

The second and third races were run back to back after lunch.

In race 2 Cooper lead of the line with Lord following and Bryan Taylor from Frensham Pond and Ben Kaplan from Seahorse coming into the fray in the shifty conditions. Lord and Taylor overtook Cooper with Kaplan coming into third just before the finish.

With Lord retiring to the clubhouse with two firsts the third race commenced in similar conditions with Helen Allen of BTYC, Andy Wadsworth of BTYC and Brian Taylor of the line fast. The whole fleet appeared to arrive at the windward mark together spreading out on the run down to the first leeward mark. Those gybing to the right picked up a breeze. At the end of the first lap Wadsworth led from Taylor, Innes and Ward and with the wind becoming variable both in direction and strength positions changed regularly. Taylor took the bullet from Wadsworth and Ward with Innes taking fourth.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Helm	Crew	Club	R1	R2	R3	Pts
2nd	13762	Brian Taylor	Taylor	Frensham Pond SC	8	2	1	3
9th	14050	Simon Millar	Ted Jefferies	Frensham Pond SC	6	6	6	12
11th	13958	George Rogers	Jilly Wilkinson	Tollesbury SC	9	11	DNS	20
15th	13538	Tony Steventon	Roger Palethorpe	Frensham Pond SC	14	14	12	26
6th	14020	David Innes	Jon Denyer	Frensham Pond SC	4	7	4	8
4th	13316	James Ward	Richard Whitehill	Papercourt SC	3	8	3	6
10th	13864	Nick Clibborn		Frensham Pond SC	7	12	7	14
16th	12878	Kate Whyatt	Victoria Wakeford	Frensham Pond SC	16	15	DNS	31
12th	12895	John Traylor		Frensham Pond SC	10	13	11	21
13th	13502	David Hawkins	Ray Sumner	Frensham Pond SC	13	9	DNS	22
7th	13954	David Youll	Peter Youll	Frensham Pond SC	11	5	5	10
14th	13421	Helen Allen		BTYC	15	DNF	10	25
8th	13299	Andy Wadsworth	Andy Shrimpton	BTYC	12	10	2	12
3rd	13377	Steve Cooper	Eugene Shrimpton‑phoenix	BTYC	2	4	9	6
1st	14102	Richard Lord	Norman Brown	Seahorse SC	1	1	DNC	2
5th	14107	Ben Kaplan	Chris Lomax	Seahorse SC	5	3	8	8
17th	12890	David Wagerfield		Frensham Pond SC	17	16	DNC	33