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XOD Captains Cup at Skandia Cowes Week - Day 1

by Mark Jardine 3 Aug 2003 09:30 BST

Once again the XOD fleet is the biggest at Skandia Cowes Week with 66 entries and once again the fleet is the last to start. Many boats have been restored of renovated over the winter making 2003 most of the open year’s ever for the Captain’s Cup trophy.

With a long delay due to no wind in the morning the XODs set off at 3.45pm, later than anyone can remember a Cowes Week start being.

As it was the Westerly breeze had filled in nicely and the fleet went away first time with only one boat being called OCS. Best start of the day went to Willie McNeil in ‘Blue on Blue’ who led up the first beat and went on to win the race. The run against the tide saw some interesting tactical decisions with some take the straight line to Spanker while others headed straight for the Lepe shore.

Peter Baines in the newly restored ‘Palassie’ finished second with the Lawrence brothers in ‘Catherine’ third. The fleet this year is particularly strong with Dave Bedford returning to the fleet in ‘Heyday’ finishing sixth. Current Etchells World Champion Stuart Childerly sailing ‘Foxglove’ only managed to finish 27th. Defending Captain’s Cup champion Simon Russell finished 22nd (more points than he accumulated during the entire Cowes Week in 2002).

The heat wave is set to set in further with chances good for a sea breeze to fill in again today.

Day 1 Results:

PosSail NoBoat NameFinish TimeElapsed Time
1 X155 BLUE ON BLUE17:19:48 01:34:48 
2 X2 PALASSIE17:20:00 01:35:00 
3 X26 CATHERINE17:20:01 01:35:01 
4 X40 KYPERINI17:20:13 01:35:13 
5 X140 LUCREZIA17:20:18 01:35:18 
6 173 HEYDAY17:20:20 01:35:20 
7 X171 CHARTREUSE17:20:36 01:35:36 
8 X92 PERSEPHONE17:20:54 01:35:54 
9 X124 KATHLEEN17:20:57 01:35:57 
10 X41 SPHEX17:21:19 01:36:19 
11 X65 VERONIQUE17:22:18 01:37:18 
12 X177 RELAXATION17:22:53 01:37:53 
13 X165 TORTOISE17:23:10 01:38:10 
14 X76 MYRTLE17:23:12 01:38:12 
15 X180 FEARLESS17:23:27 01:38:27 
16 X5 MADCAP17:23:33 01:38:33 
17 X132 HARMONY17:23:36 01:38:36 
18 X192 FELIX17:23:39 01:38:39 
19 X119 LONE STAR17:24:09 01:39:09 
20 X10 IT17:24:10 01:39:10 
21 X130 XYLOMANCY17:24:42 01:39:42 
22 X80 LASS17:24:50 01:39:50 
23 X117 X-RAY17:24:56 01:39:56 
24 X69 HELENA17:24:59 01:39:59 
25 X147 FOXY17:25:09 01:40:09 
26 X54 LARK17:25:30 01:40:30 
27 X174 FOXGLOVE17:25:44 01:40:44 
28 X71 WENDA17:25:47 01:40:47 
29 X51 ATHENA17:25:49 01:40:49 
30 X34 MERSA17:25:53 01:40:53 
31 X107 CAROLET17:25:57 01:40:57 
32 X179 EXPEDITIOUS17:25:59 01:40:59 
33 X42 JULIA17:26:03 01:41:03 
34 X128 MOONRAKER17:26:06 01:41:06 
35 X190 PANDORA III17:26:09 01:41:09 
36 X161 MAYDAY17:26:15 01:41:15 
37 X25 MORVEN17:26:23 01:41:23 
38 X162 XENIA17:26:29 01:41:29 
39 X115 MIX17:26:37 01:41:37 
40 X170 OYSTER17:26:45 01:41:45 
41 X89 JINX17:26:56 01:41:56 
42 X82 MAGIC DRAGON17:26:59 01:41:59 
43 X48 XL17:27:02 01:42:02 
44 X101 THORA17:27:05 01:42:05 
45 X52 ANITRA17:27:08 01:42:08 
46 X33 CLAIR DE LUNE17:27:11 01:42:11 
47 X90 CALYPSO17:27:14 01:42:14 
48 X45 JEWEL17:27:19 01:42:19 
49 X153 SANS SOUCI17:27:23 01:42:23 
50 X102 WHISKEY JOHNNY17:27:27 01:42:27 
51 X143 SKIFFLE17:27:33 01:42:33 
52 X88 TING HOW17:27:36 01:42:36 
53 X141 MADAME X17:27:48 01:42:48 
54 X74 FIONA17:28:53 01:43:53 
55 X125 ARROW17:29:04 01:44:04 
56 X20 PUFFIN17:29:07 01:44:07 
57 X56 XANTHUS17:29:09 01:44:09 
58 X150 PEPPER17:29:12 01:44:12 
59 X4 WESTWIND17:29:16 01:44:16 
60 X36 DOLPHIN17:29:21 01:44:21 
61 X68 SOUTHWIND17:29:35 01:44:35 
62 X142 DOLCE VITA17:30:12 01:45:12 
63 X30 ONWARD17:30:57 01:45:57 
 X169 PERDIXNOD  
 X172 LIZZ WHIZZNOD  
 X144 LA MOUETTERET  
 X176 CRUMPETDNS  
 X166 SWALLOWDNF  

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