New Year's Eve RS200 Series at Itchenor Sailing Club
by George Yeoman 6 Jan 2015 08:16 GMT
31 December 2014
RS200 New Year's Eve Series at Itchenor © George Yeoman
So 2014 came to an end and what a great way to end it with 12 boats in 15 knots. Race Officer Roger Yeoman managed to get us four 20 minute races and back in time for the New Year's party at the club.
There was lots of close racing on the short windward leeward courses. Arthur Henderson & Lisa McDanell started strongly with George Yeoman & Sophie Ormsby in race 1 breaking away from the rest of the pack with George & Sophie eventually taking the win.
Current national champion Ian Martin sailing with Lucy Preston managed to rob Will & Mary Henderson of the win in the 2nd race on the finish line (after they turned up, apparently Lucy's time keeping isn't all it is made out to be) with a smart tack to the biased end.
However, George & Sophie managed to get off the line and stay clean to win the remaining races.
The racing was then followed up with the Itchenor New Year's party which will always remain in the memories that can never quite be recalled... but it was really good!
Overall Results:
| Pos | Sail No | Helm | Crew | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | 1508 | George Yeoman | Sophie Ormsby | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1031 | Ian Martin | Lucy Preston | 12 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 1520 | Rob Gullan | Rosie Sibthorp | 3 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | 629 | Will Henderson | Mary Henderson | 6 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | 1452 | Arthur Henderson | Lisa McDanell | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 6 | 1481 | Jack Holden | Alex Lee | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 7 | 854 | Andy Shaw | Pippa Horne | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 17 |
| 8 | 1431 | Ed Fitzgerald | Nikki Boniface | 8 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 24 |
| 9 | 985 | AJ Dawson | Rachel Spain | 7 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 25 |
| 10 | 1505 | Izzy Fitzgerald | Annie Sibthorp | 10 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 26 |
| 11 | 597 | Jonathon Pudney | Immy Pudney | 9 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 29 |
| 12 | 812 | Harry Gilchrist | Abby Gilchrist | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 35 |