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Noble Marine Laser Masters at Grafham Water Sailing Club

by Glyn Purnell 1 Jun 2009 13:58 BST 30-31 May 2009

The second event of the 2009 series took place at Grafham Water SC over the weekend 30/31 May and attracted an entry of 51. The fleet was split into standard and radial, each with their own start.

With a forecast for sun and wind it promised to be a good weekend. This turned out to be the case with an easterly F2 - 4 on Saturday, averaging F3 and the same on Sunday but from the north and building during the day to the higher end of F4 enabling the full six races to be sailed. Picking the shifts on the first beat turned to be crucial and those who got them wrong found it difficult to recover even in the reasonably strong wind and relatively broad reaches.

In the standard fleet Steve Cockerill scored a total of 8 points from Alan Davis’ 14 and Andy Le Grice’s 23 points to win overall while in the radial fleet Ian Gregory finished on 9 points from Richard Major’s 10 and John Reay’s 12 points to take first place.

Overall Results:

Standard Fleet

Master
1st Steve Cockerill (Stokes Bay)
2nd Alan Davis (Oxford)
3rd Phil Bevan (Grafham)

Apprentice
1st Andy Le Grice (Stokes Bay)
2nd Valentin Nedyalkov (Bulgaria)
3rd Graham Lund (Broxbourne)

Grandmaster
1st David Binding (Weir Wood)
2nd Paul Nicholson (RAFSA)
3rd John Masters (Chipstead)

Radial Fleet

Apprentice
1st Ian Gregory (Frensham Pond) 2nd Sarah Kennedy (Yealm)

Grandmaster
1st Richard Major (Grafham)
2nd Glyn Purnell (Leigh & Lowton)
3rd Colin Dutton (Frensham Pond)

Master
1st John Reay (Island Barn)
2nd Chris Jones (Sutton Bingham)
3rd Max Hunt (Whitstable)

Great Grandmaster
1st Bill Watson (Blithfield)
2nd Mike Kinnear (Starcross)
3rd Rob Stenhouse (Rutland)

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