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Sprint 15 winter traveller series concludes
11 March 2007By Bob Carter 19 Mar 2007 21:19
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The Sprint 15 winter traveller series was concluded at Grafham on Sunday 11 March. All 5 events were sailed and 51 sailors took part. 9 qualified with 3 races completed. The events (and attendances) were at Stewartby (15), Beaver (16), Draycote (18), Queen Mary (13) and Grafham (25) in a variety of wind conditions. Queen Mary was a drifter, Stewartby was sailed in light winds (F2), Beaver was a little more testing with some tricky gusts (F2-3). Grafham was sailed in F3-5 with strong gusts and Draycote was sailed in survival conditions (5-7) where only half the competitors went out in the second race.
No-one won 2 events so we had 5 different event winners each from a different club. George Stephen from Queen Mary won Stewartby, John Postlethwaite of Beaver won on home territory, Charles Watson of Halifax won at Draycote, Howard Hawkes of Thorpe Bay won at Queen Mary, and Stuart Snell of Grafham won at Grafham
It was a very tight finish in the series between Steve Sawford (2,2,3) and Charles Watson (1,2,5). Sawford did not attend the last event at Grafham but Watson (the clear favourite) threw it all away with his swim in the last race at Grafham. So Sawford took the Travellers Trophy (affectionately called “The Urn”) in absentia.
Overall Results:
1st S Sawford 7 pts
2nd C Watson (Halifax) 8 pts
3rd P Tanner (Shanklin) 9pts
4th R Carter (Grafham) 12pts
5th G Stephen (Queen Mary) 15pts
6th H Hawkes (Thorpe Bay) 16pts
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