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Solo and National 12 Open at Salcombe Yacht Club

by John Murrell 10 Oct 2007 07:48 BST 6-7 October 2007

Almost summer like conditions greeted the competitors for Salcombe’s final Open Meeting of 2007. With 6 visiting boats visitors joining the strong local fleets, competitive racing was ensured.

Local speedster Chris Cleaves (3680) dominated the Solo racing, taking 3 wins but the other two podium places were up for graps until the final moments of race 3 when Peter Hammond (3769) just wrested the spot from David Greening (3789) at the line.

The National Twelve racing wasn’t so dominated with 3 boats taking line honours. Race 1 was won by Jon Ibbotson ably crewed by Katy Meadowcroft sailing N3473, they were looking good for race 2 as well but decided that they need to check the depth of the water off Millbay beach, oops there wasn’t enough! This allowed Keri and Theo Harris to take the win in their ‘new boat’ N3501 which they had only collected on Friday afternoon! The third race was take by Fran Gifford and Sophie Mackley which combined with a second behind Keri in race 2 gave them the overall victory, second overall were Keri and Theo with Jon and Katy third.

Overall Results:

Solos
1st Well Driven?, 4680, Chris Cleaves (Salcombe)
2nd White Rhino, 4769, Peter Hammond (Salcombe)
3rd Trailer Trash, 4789, David Greening (Salcombe)
4th Dreamer, 4747, Alister Morley (Salcombe)
5th Gander, 4239, Bill Jago (Salcombe)
6th Ellen Rose, 4679, Dave Sanders (Papercourt)

National 12s
1st Zippy, 3431, Francis Gifford & Sophie Mackley (Aldeburgh)
2nd 3501, Keri Harris & India / Freya Harris (Salcombe)
3rd Max Factor, 3473, Jon Ibbotson & Katy Meadowcroft (Royal Harwich)
4th Master of Puppets, 3474, Chris Winzar & Nicola Bass (Salcombe)
5th Strictly PC, 3480, Norman Brown & Karen Brown (Salcombe)
6th Aida, 3397 David Moore & Anastasia Ridley (Salcombe)

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