Fox's Marine and Country Great Eastern RS200 Travellers Series Season Round-Up
by Mark Smith 28 Sep 2016 09:42 BST
28 September 2016
Fox's Marine and Country Great Eastern RS200 Travellers Series © Roger Mant Photography
This year was the first year of an official RS200 Eastern Travellers series with sponsorship through National 12 star Tom Stewart's Fox's Marine and Country chandlery sailing kit and lifestyle store in Ipswich and a programme arranged rather at the last minute.
It kicked off with a blowy (which most of the events were) weekend at Waldringfield for their Easter Egg open. Waldringfield is club with a new 200 fleet of five regularly raced boats that are raced competitively and well, visitors Rheanna and Holly Pavey and Mark and Dom Smith enjoyed some remarkably close racing with the local boats.
The next weekend saw the biggest fleet of the series at Alton Water for an open shared with Fevas and 400s with 17 x 200s lining up for the start including a youth fleet in their superb brand new boats from the Royal Hospital School, a brace and half of Brightlingsea boats and a fair few of Alton's own sizeable 200 fleet involved as well. Close racing ensued especially on the second day which was run as 'almost' sprints. Great fun.
The Burnham Asymmetric Regatta was next - held over a beautiful weekend leading on to Aldeburgh, where Dave and Sophie from Grafham first started to stamp their authority on the series.
The show returned to Alton for their Autumn Regatta then on to the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club for their superb RS200 Open (and Excalibur Trophy dry run) last weekend.
The series was was won overall by Dave and Sophie from Grafham followed by Robin and Liz and Mark and Becky from Waldringfield.
Next year we hope to get more opens within university vacations and away from school exams to maximise attendance. We have had participants at all levels from national level contenders down to people who have just bought their boat. 33 crews took part at least once in 2016, next year if half of them race regularly in the events planned we will have a really great series.
In summary, a great first year with thanks to all of the clubs who hosted us, the individuals who arranged the events and Fox's for their sponsorship of the series.
Overall Results:
| Pos | Sail No | Helm | Crew | Club | Waldringfield | Alton 1 | Burnham SC | Aldeburgh | Alton 2 | R Corinthian | Pts |
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| 1st | 1347 | Dave Jesssop | Sophie Mear | Grafham Water | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2nd | 1477 | Robin Parsons | Liz Snelling | Waldringfield SC | 2 | (DNC) | (DNC) | 2 | 2 | (DNC) | 6 |
| 3rd | 1149 | Mark Hodge | Becky Hodge | Waldringfield SC | 3 | ‑10 | (DNC) | 5 | 4 | (DNC) | 12 |
| 4th | 1070 | Alistair McHardy | Kay Maddox | Alton Water | (DNC) | 14 | (DNC) | 4 | 6 | (DNC) | 24 |
| 5th | 1600 | Rheanna Pavey | Holly Pavey | Stour SC | 1 | 2 | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | 37 |
| 6th | 985 | Chay Taylor | Niamh Davies | Royal Corinthian YC/BurnhamSC | (DNC) | (DNC) | 1 | (DNC) | DNC | 4 | 39 |
| 7th | 540 | Harry Forbes | Pat Bray | Alton Water | (DNC) | 5 | (DNC) | (DNC) | 3 | DNC | 42 |
| 8th | 1142 | Ben Alexander | Clare Williams | Deben YC | (DNC) | 6 | (DNC) | 3 | (DNC) | DNC | 43 |
| 9th | 1253 | Mark Smith | Dom
Issy & Harvey | Brightlingsea SC | 6 | 9 | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | 49 |
| 10th | 1126 | Dave Conlon | Sarah Bines | Brightlingsea SC | (DNC) | 1 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 69 |
| 11th | 1345 | Jo Lewis | Cailin Morley | Burnham | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 2 | 70 |
| 12th | 1629 | Phil Bailey | Helen Bailey | Hunts SC | (DNC) | (DNC) | 2 | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 70 |
| 13th | 740 | James Hutton Penman | Matthew Jayasekara | Royal Corinthian YC | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 3 | 71 |
| 14th | 879 | Scott Ellis | Carl Anderson | Royal Corinthian YC | (DNC) | (DNC) | 3 | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 71 |
| 15th | 1610 | Dan Patten | Phoebe Twig | Royal Hospital School | (DNC) | 3 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 71 |
| 16th | 963 | Ed Gibbons | Rebecca Bines | Brightlingsea SC | (DNC) | 4 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 72 |
| 17th | 1180 | Geoff Mayhew | Scarey Collingridge | Waldringfield SC | 4 | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 72 |
| 18th | 1253 | Matt Smith | Dylan Collingbourne | Brightlingsea SC/Burnham SC | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 5 | 73 |
| 19th | 794 | Hobie Wright | Heidi Wright | Walton and Frinton YC | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | 5 | DNC | 73 |
| 20th | 1179 | Chris Woodard | Linda Woodard | Waldringfield SC | 5 | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 73 |
| 21st | 879 | Micky Wright | Carl Anderson | Royal Corinthian YC | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 6 | 74 |
| 22nd | 575 | Alfie Agar | | Aldeburgh YC | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | 6 | DNC | DNC | 74 |
| 23rd | 1438 | John Clementson | Jamie Clementson | Chipstead SC | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 7 | 75 |
| 24th | 1345 | Jo Tribe | Jason Phelps | Burnham SC | (DNC) | 7 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 75 |
| 25th | 1031 | Richard Eaton | Becky Rains | Waldringfield SC | 7 | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 75 |
| 26th | 1323 | Jason Phelps | Jo Tribe | Royal Corinthian YC | (DNC) | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 8 | 76 |
| 27th | None | Archie Hainsworth | Abi Sykes | Royal Hospital School | (DNC) | 8 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 76 |
| 28th | 794 | Heidi Wright | Arthur Nicholls | Walton and Frinton YC | (DNC) | 11 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 79 |
| 29th | 1609 | Freddie Wooton | Peter Russell | Royal Hospital School | (DNC) | 12 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 80 |
| 30th | 1412 | Roger Baker | Sarah Dadds | Alton Water | (DNC) | 13 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 81 |
| 31st | 967 | Sean Mear | Sophie Mear | Grafham Water SC | (DNC) | 15 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 83 |
| 32nd | 1090 | Joe Ward | Harvey Foster | Alton Water | (DNC) | 16 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 84 |
| 33rd | 1404 | Julie‑Ann White | Nick White | Alton Water | (DNC) | 17 | (DNC) | (DNC) | DNC | DNC | 85 |