Mirror South West Travellers' Open at Restronguet Sailing Club
by Martin Egan 2 Jun 2015 15:44 BST
31 May 2015
Ten boats competed for the Restronguet SC Mirror Open & SW Travellers thanks to great support from Looe, Mount's Bay and Penzance sailing clubs. Racing was held on one of the race areas for the 2017 Mirror Worlds, in a cold and squally North Westerly 4-5.
Race 1 got away with an fairly even start, Esther Bowdler & Scarlett Crago powered their way up the beat to lead at the 1st Mark.A prolonged squall came through on the second lap - run causing Scarlett Shepherd & Rosie Addinall to lose control under spinnaker and making the final beat a struggle for the lighter crews. Esther & Scarlett held their lead to the end closely followed by Ollie & Archie Hawkins then Joe Jackman & Jack Sargent making it a Looe SC 1, 2, 3.
After lunch the 2nd race got away with more wind, cloud - it felt more like March than the end of May. There were quite a few retirements from this race as the cold, heavy weather took it toll on the lighter, younger sailors. This time Scarlett Shepherd & Tom Cosier powered they way to a comfortable victory over Ollie & Archie with Esther & Scarlett just 20 seconds behind in 3rd.
The start of race 3 saw a number of boats waiting too far downwind from the Committee Boat. They failed to spot the sequence had started, so Ollie & Archie and capitalized on their error with a good start and went on to win with Martin Egan & 6 year old George Lenney 2nd just narrowly ahead of Scarlett Shepherd & Tom Cosier, who had been relentlessly catching up all the way through the race, in 3rd place.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Sail No - Boat Name | Helm & Crew | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | Pts |
|---|
| 1st | 70810 ‑ YOLO | Ollie and Archie Hawkins | Looe SC | ‑2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2nd | 70537 ‑ Complete & Utter Chaos | Esther Bowdler & Scarlett Crago | Looe SC | 1 | 3 | ‑4 | 4 |
| 3rd | 70716 ‑ The Bootle Bumtrinket | Scarlett Shepherd & Rosie Addinall/Tom Cosier | Restronguet SC | ‑7 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 4th | 69667 ‑ Bold Forester | Martin Egan & George Lenney | Restronguet SC | ‑6 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 5th | 70534 ‑ Arctic Donkeez (sailing as 70784) | Joe Jackman & Jack Sargent | Looe SC | 3 | (DNF) | 5 | 8 |
| 6th | 69674 ‑ PZSC club boat | Jeremy Stephens & Lloyd Williams | Penzance SC | 5 | 4 | (DNC) | 9 |
| 7th | 66632 ‑ Hippo | Steve & Freddie George | Mount's Bay SC | 4 | DNF | (DNC) | 16 |
| 8th | 70857 ‑ Odyssey | Lily Medlicott & Demelza Hewitt | Mount's Bay SC | 8 | DNF | (DNC) | 20 |
| 9th | 70678 ‑ Ajax | Amy & Chloe George | Mount's Bay SC | 9 | DNF | (DNC) | 21 |
| 10th | 70335 ‑ Gybe Bunny | Harvey Martin & Sennen Addinall | Restronguet SC | DNF | DNC | (DNC) | 24 |
| 11th | 37922 ‑ Small Fry | Tony & Rufus Martin | Restronguet SC | DNC | DNC | (DNC) | 24 |