Topper Open at Chichester Yacht Club
by Derek Jackman 8 Jul 2016 14:12 BST
3 July 2016
Chichester YC Topper Open © Chichester Yacht Club
With a forecast for a bright sunny day with a Force 3 wind in the South West conditions were looking near perfect for the Chichester YC Topper Open - attracting 33 boats. In the end the weather did not quite match up to perfect! But it was a really good sailing day despite less than forecast sun. Three races were held, between the second and third races, a F4 blew up capsizing a few boats, but then the wind dropped to F1-2 at the end of the Race 3, giving those good in light airs the advantage.
With this wind direction a trapezoidal course was set in Chichester Basin. Both 'full rig' 5.3 and the smaller 4.2 rig Toppers took part. The 4.2 rig Toppers doing a shorter course. Some quite new to sailing members of Chichester and other clubs joined in the racing and were able to improve their skills considerably. This included one 4.2 sailor who was able to keep up with some the bigger rigged Toppers.
Races 1 & 2 had clean starts with no recalls. In Race 3, however, there were three boats over the line – they were recalled but only one returned, even this boat did not return immediately so was a long way behind the fleet. In the first two races with the tide coming in against the sailors the leaders did best going up the right side of the beat. Once the tide was ebbing, the windward mark was shifted left, the majority of the sailors still went right, which interestingly still seemed to work.
There was some serious and hard fought competition at the front of the Fleet with Race 1 being won by Hugo Burrows, (WOSC), with Morgan Archer (Blue Circle SC) second. In Race 2 first place went to Sophie Kirk with Hugo second. Race 3 was won by Ischbel Zuurmond (MRSC) with Charlie South (Stokes Bay) second).
Overall Results:
Pos | Sail No | Helm | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | Pts |
1st | 47646 | Hugo Burrows | WOSC | 1 | 2 | ‑3 | 3 |
2nd | 47777 | Ishbel Zuurmond | mrsc | 3 | ‑4 | 1 | 4 |
3rd | 47195 | Sophie Kirk | Stokes Bay | 5 | 1 | ‑15 | 6 |
4th | 47853 | Charlie South | Stokes Bay | ‑15 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
5th | 47647 | Morgan Archer | Blue Circle SC | 2 | ‑10 | 6 | 8 |
6th | 44813 | Jake Bowhay | Hill Head/Stokes bay | ‑9 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
7th | 47350 | Liam Schiess | Chipstead SC | ‑10 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
8th | 45507 | Freya Anderson | Warsash | 8 | 5 | ‑10 | 13 |
9th | 47531 | Curtis Mckay | Queensmead | 4 | ‑11 | 11 | 15 |
10th | 47649 | Fin Swanton | Felpham SC | 6 | ‑9 | 9 | 15 |
11th | 47685 | Samuel Brackley | Felpham SC | ‑22 | 14 | 5 | 19 |
12th | 47807 | Leo Wilkinson | | ‑18 | 12 | 8 | 20 |
13th | 47790 | Sam Davis | Poole Yacht Club | ‑16 | 8 | 13 | 21 |
14th | 44583 | Joseph Dormer | Queen Mary | 7 | ‑17 | 16 | 23 |
15th | 47855 | Harriet Kirk | Stokes bay | 11 | 13 | ‑14 | 24 |
16th | 44131 | Niall Schiess | Chipstead SC | 12 | 15 | (DNF) | 27 |
17th | 24986 | Jake Atkins | Stokes Bay | ‑20 | 19 | 12 | 31 |
18th | 47954 | Josie Meredith | Papercourt | 14 | 18 | ‑19 | 32 |
19th | 47357 | Anabelle Esqulant | dswc | ‑21 | 16 | 18 | 34 |
20th | 46046 | Lily Barrett | Island Barn RSC | 13 | 23 | ‑25 | 36 |
21st | 28100 | Oliver Randall May | CYC | ‑23 | 21 | 17 | 38 |
22nd | 47949 | Annabel Sumeray | papercourt | 19 | 22 | ‑23 | 41 |
23rd | 47077 | Oliver williamson | Island Barn RSC | ‑27 | 20 | 21 | 41 |
24th | 43087 | Heloise Shadbolt | warsash | 17 | (DNF) | 27 | 44 |
25th | 45155 | Robin Stein | Crawley Mariners YC | ‑28 | 24 | 20 | 44 |
26th | 41091 | Thomas Lawson | CYC | 25 | ‑28 | 22 | 47 |
27th | 47386 | Cat Albone | CYC | 26 | ‑29 | 24 | 50 |
28th | 45307 | Jack Williams | Hill Head SC | 24 | 27 | (OCS) | 51 |
29th | 9359 | Amberley Norris Wharton | CYC | ‑29 | 26 | 26 | 52 |
30th | 28999 | Katie Merryfield day | CYC | ‑30 | 25 | 29 | 54 |
31st | 42002 | Lily Speed | CYC | (DNF) | 31 | 28 | 59 |
32nd | 33071 | Harry Muller | cyc | 32 | 30 | (DNS) | 62 |
33rd | 28087 | Jack Muller | CYC | 31 | (DNF) | DNS | 65 |