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Solo Pre-Champs at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy

by Steve Ede 1 Jul 2008 07:54 BST 28-29 June 2008

The Solo class headed to WPNSA on the weekend of June 28th / 29th for its inaugural ‘pre-championship’ event. This gave the fleet the chance to practise on salt water three weeks before the nationals (being held at Royal Torbay Yacht Club from 19th – 25th July).

Those that made the journey were greeted by perfect sailing conditions on both days, with winds of force 4 – 5 and uninterrupted sunshine. On top of that the academy made everyone feel very welcome and laid on superb race management to match the excellent facilities ashore.

The racing was dominated by Jim Hunt, who headed home after race 5 having already secured the title with 4 wins and a second. He was given a good run for his money in most of the races though, and had to fight through to the lead in all but one race. Behind there was plenty of very close racing with frequent place changes amongst the high quality fleet.

Overall Results:

1st Jim Hunt (South Staffs SC)
2nd Cliff Crawshaw (Corus SC)
3rd Chris Cleaves (Salcombe YC)
4th Alister Morley (Salcombe YC)
5th Andy Davis (Chase SC)
6th Chris Brown (RYA)

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