Medway Dinghy Regatta 2016
by Christine Godber 22 Jul 2016 19:36 BST
2-3 July 2016
The Medway Dinghy Regatta was hosted and organised by Wilsonian Sailing Club on behalf of The Medway & Swale Boating Association over the weekend 2nd & 3rd July 2016.
The locally based MTS Cleaning Services was the lead sponsor, supplying tee shirts to all the competitors and helpers, with co-sponsors Harken and Allen providing carbon material sail bags, caps, sheet toggles, keys rings with small brass blocks and large blocks distributed by a tally number draw.
There were 6 starts and 8 fleets, Fast, Medium and Slow Handicap, Blaze, Streaker, Wayfarer, Juniors and 2000 class with the 2000 having the largest fleet of 11 boats.
Four races were scheduled with three to count there was an entry of 60 boats; 34 from the host club and 26 visitors, and 16 Clubs including contingents from the Broxbourne, Erith YC,Medway YC and as far away as Swanage (Doug Horner).
The weather on Saturday was South Westerly around Force 4 gusting 5 the forecast and including the rain had very shifty and gusty winds which made sailing challenging and almost certainly reduced the entries. The races started downwind so it was a colourful start with all the Spinnakers flying.
On Sunday the sun shone and brought with it excellent sailing conditions with a rising tide the South Westerly was reduced to a Force 2 and rising to a Force 3 in the afternoon attracting more sailors especially from WSC. There was a shorter lunch break and postponement on the Sunday for passing shipping and lack of beach to launch for the afternoon race.
This race was also affected by the Port Authority lifting of one of our racing Buoys 23 as the fast fleets approached it (cause of protest) but most including the visitors found quite amusing however the Race Box were only given 5 minutes notice.
As always Nick Champion visited us on the windiest day Saturday and you can visit his website for photos, www.championmarinephotography.co.uk
The shorter courses were effective and long enough under the weather conditions so everyone could finish in time.
Saturday evening concluded with a BBQ provided by the volunteers in the kitchen headed up by Carol Rodgers as was all the food over the weekend which was a splendid feast and the Panache Steel Band entertained with Afro -Caribbean rhythmical music for the rest of the evening.
Tim Kift and Jo Wicken (Alto) WSC led the fast fleet home with Jonathan Carter in Vortex from Rickmansworth coming up behind closely followed by Andy Hockey WSC.
The Medium fleet was won with two first out of the 4 races by Tony Hunt and Suzanne Hall in K1 followed by David Fenech and Alison Williams in a V3000 winning one race and a second and a third closely behind with Steven and Lin Worf in a Kestrel in third winning with a second third and fourth.
Jane Drummond WSC sailing a Lightening in her first single handed race in her new boat came first in two races and had a DNS and DNS as did the others in the slow fleet. Elena Balycheva Tideway sailability came second. Martin Mckay WSC came third.
Ian Foxwell (Blaze) dominated the 6 strong Blaze fleet, comfortably winning all four races, closely follows by Chris Saunders from Sheppey SC in second place with a couple seconds and a third to count Andy Hampton WSC made certain of third prize while Martin Jones WSC made fourth place.
Doug Horner (Streaker) won the contest and all four races with Amy Adams coming up behind and Christopher Smith with two second places but two DNS came third.
With entries of 10 Juniors, locally based in the London area at Docklands Sailing and Water Sports centre Leila Moore swept the board and won all four 4 races.
Grabriel Walsh who cycled 40 miles from central London on his bike from home to compete camped overnight then cycled home after racing on Sunday came in a close second in WSC club hired Feva. Richard Tutt came third but as did many of the other Juniors DNS 1st and 2nd race on the Saturday due to gusty winds.
In the 2000 class event Richard and Ian Hudson won 2 races and had DNS from Bough Beech SC Christopher and Gillian Jordan from Burghfield won one race and pipped the winners in the last race and Simon Conway/James Hardy DSWC came third.
The Bill Stewart Memorial Cup was awarded jointly to David and Sandra Wilson from Broad Water SC who over many years had been sailing in their Graduate in Medway Regattas since 1995.
Martin Vinton Commodore of Wilsonian Sailing Club presented the prizes.
Overall Results:
Bill Stewart Memorial Cup
David and Sandra Wilson (Broadwater SC)
Fast handicap (Invicta Shield)
1st Alto 110, Tim Kift and Jo Wicken 3pts (Wilsonian SC)
2nd Vortex 201, Jonathan Carter 5pts (Rickmandsworth SC)
3rd Alto 111, Andy and Lucy Hockey 7pts (Wilsonian SC)
4th Alto 120, Grahame Smith and Jayne Thorpe 11pts (Wilsonian SC)
5th RS600 969, Tom Lambert 16pts (Wilsonian SC)
6th RS800 1046, Richard and Ellie Smith 16pts (Wilsonian SC)
7th Osprey 1171, Steve Carmichael and Walter Santer 18pts (Broxbourne SC)
8th Musto Skiff 419, Richard Smith 19pts (Wilsonian SC)
Medium handicap (Quintet Trophy)
1st K1 120, Tony Hunt and Suzanne Hall 5pts (Wilsonian SC)
2nd V 3000 3605, David Fenech and Alison Williams 6pts (Wilsonian SC)
3rd Kestral 1545, Steven and Lin Worf 9pts (Calshot SC)
4th Laser 159343, Neil Lamprell 10pts (Wilsonian SC)
5th Laser 164566, Darren Heslin 14pts (Broxbourne SC)
6th Graduate 3010, David and Sandra Wilson 17pts (Broad Water SC)
7th V3000 3608, Martin and Ben Brown 22pts (Wilsonian SC)
8th Laser188411, Angus Gunn 23pts (Erith YC)
9th Laser 172348, Gordan Belcher 26pts (Wilsonian SC)
10th Laser II 8491, Timothy Truin Bethany Gibbs 30pts (Wilsonian SC)
Slow handicap (Medway Regatta Trophy)
1st Lightening 368, Jane Drummond 6pts (Wilsonian SC)
2nd ByteCII 2624, Elena Balycheva 10pts (Tideway Sailability)
3rd Miracle 3829, Martin McKay 12pts (Wilsonian SC)
Juniors (The Medway Points Trophy)
1st Laser Radial 202543, Leila Moore 3pts (Docklands Sailing WC)
2nd RS Feva XL Club Boat, Gabriel Walsh 6pts (Westminster SC)
3rd Laser 172811, Richard Tutt 10pts (Wilsonian SC)
4th Laser, Jem Causer 13pts (Wilsonian SC)
5th Laser Radial 44521, Megan Gately 16 pts (Erith YC)
6th Topper 26880, Harry Gately 23pts (Erith YC)
7th RS Feva XL, William and Daniel Wilding 26pts (Erith YC)
8th Laser Radial 23, Robert Crane 29pts (Wilsonian SC)
9th Topper 46796, Benjamin Wilding 29pts (Erith YC)
10th Laser 3000m, Ellie Harris and Benjamin Gilmore 33pts (Medway YC)
2000 (Old Wilsonian Trophy)
1st 2374, Richard and Sam Hudson 6pts (Bough Beech)
2nd 22541, Christopher and Gillian Jordan 6pts (Burghfield SC)
3rd 2229, Simon Conway and James Hardy 6pts (Dockland SWC)
4th 2643, Dave Vettergreen and Janice Smith 9pts (Wilsonian SC)
5th 2213, Paul Rodgers and Paul Thorpe 13pts (Wilsonian SC)
6th 22258, Phil Harris and Nick Sollener 17pts (Wilsonian SC)
7th 2350, Adam Gray and Claire Perkins 17pts (Wilsonian SC)
8th 21405, Nina and Chris Wallis 20pts (Wilsonian SC)
9th 2670, Jeremy Mitchell and Joanna Evans 24pts (Erith YC)
10th 2884, Alan Charles and Janice Margaret Thomas 24pts (Erith YC)
11th Paul Gately and Tony Gunn 34pts (Erith YC)
Streaker (Chatham News Trophy)
1st 1940, Doug Horner 3pts (Swanage)
2nd 1675, Amy Adams 7pts (Wilsonian SC)
3rd 1844, Christopher Smith 12pts (Island Bar Reservoir SC)
4th 1416, Georgios Rafeleltos 13pts (Wilsonian SC)
5th 1818, Martin Jessop 15pts (Wilsonian SC)
6th 1820, Lesley O'Rourke 15pts (Wilsonian SC)
7th 1439, Amanda Randall 20pts (Wilsonian SC)
Blaze (Thimble Trophy)
1st 715, Ian Foxwell 3pts (Wilsonian SC)
2nd 755, Chris Saunders 7pts (Sheppey SC)
3rd 75, Adam Hampton 8pts (Wilsonian SC)
4th 719, Martin Jones 11pts (Wilsonian SC)
5th 609, Stewart Robertson 12pts (Wilsonian SC)
6th 3, Charles West 20pts (Wilsonian SC)
Wayfarer (The Matkin Trophy)
1st 10934, Brian Lamb and Sam Pygall 4pts (Wilsonian SC)
2nd 10609, Richard Stone and Cathere Gore 5pts (Medway SC)
3rd 11118, John Goudie and John Hewat 7pts (Wilsonian SC)
4th 10686, Brian and Elizabeth McKensie 9pts (Medway YC)
5th 1759, Roger and John Gibbs 15pts (Wilsonian SC)
6th 10875, Mike Pimm and Peter Dilley 19pts (Medway SC)