Squib Southern Championships at Royal Dart Yacht Club

by David West 14 Sep 2009 22:30 BST 12-13 September 2009

Squib Southern Championships at Dartmouth © Richard Prescott / www.richardprescott.com

39 Squibs entered for the National Squib Southern Championships - a record for this event – held in 2009 under the burgee of the Royal Dart YC 12 and 13 September. The winds were not kind, being particularly fierce during race three during which the Chairman of the National Squib Owners Association, David Wines, managed to fall out of his Squib a mere 150 yards from the finishing line while lying 5th.

The championship went to Alan Johnson, on this occasion with top crew Mark Thompson - both from South Caernarvonshire YC - who won four of the six races and discarded a 5th place. Alan now has his ‘new’ 35 year old boat going really fast having been threatening to do so since last year. All the work that he has put in to Cariad Bach 132 has proved worthwhile (even if it would probably have been less expensive to buy a new boat!)

Second were Mike and Penny Fenwick in Ghost Rider 758, from Weymouth SC, winning the first race and never thereafter out of the top five. The other race was won by Gerard Dyson and Adam Saltonstall in Alchemy 800. The leading lady helm was Pam Evans from Felixstowe Ferry SC in 8th. The first local boat was Tearaway 501, with Mike Mackie and Roger Nuttall in 12th.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Boat Name	Helm	Crew	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Pts
1	132	Cariad Bach	Alan Johnson	Mark Thompson	SCYC	5	1	1	3	1	1	7
2	758	Ghost Rider	Mike Fenwick	Penny Fenwick	WSC	1	2	3	5	2	2	10
3	840	Alchemy	Gerard Dyson	Adam Saltonstall	RYYC	3	3	2	1	10	3	12
4	65	Banshee	Nigel Harris	John Stephenson	SCYC	4	5	7	6	3	4	22
5	128	Pani Munta	Mike Probert	James Bryer	RVYC	6	4	4	4	4	7	22
6	869	Tears in Heaven	Peter Marchant	Deano	RCYC	2	6	6	7	5	6	25
7	828	White Magic	David Wines	Tony Procter	WHSC	7	8	40	2	7	8	32
8	838	Maximus	Pam Evans	Max Evans	FFSC	8	9	40	9	8	5	39
9	51	Battalion	Dick Batt	Pamela Phelan	RVYC	13	7	5	12	6	23	43
10	500	Hussar	Martin Harrison	Anne Harrison	RVYC	11	17	40	11	9	9	57
11	40	Ruby	Kim Vasey	Alex Hugo	WHSC	18	14	8	16	12	11	61
12	501	Tearaway	Mike Mackie	Roger Nuttall	RDYC	10	18	16	8	25	13	65
13	858	Bachante VIII	Amy Price	Roland Wilson	RNSA/RVYC	12	12	9	17	17	15	65
14	842	Posh Totty	Alan McDine	Deo McDine	WSC	20	10	11	15	14	20	70
15	808	Osprey	Chris Gear	Jerry Westbrook	RVYC	22	11	10	14	18	17	70
16	510	No Wonder	Kit Noble	Ted Tolliday	RDYC	17	13	13	18	19	12	73
17	512	Atom	Peter Johnson	Ashley Bower	RDYC	9	40	40	13	11	10	83
18	695	Mimosa	Simon Unwin	Judith Thomas	RDYC	15	19	12	19	23	22	87
19	562	Capricorn	Hugh Conway	Joe Barrett	RDYC	14	15	22	23	15	40	89
20	693	Chaos	Chris Hill	James Pritchard	RDYC	21	21	18	29	13	18	91
21	796	Bootneck	John Lewis	Bob Rinner	RWYC	25	16	15	22	20	19	92
22	822	Archimedes	Mark Heseltine	David Searle	RWYC	24	20	14	10	26	25	93
23	853	Echo	John Barton	Mike Barton	WHSC	28	23	19	21	22	14	99
24	153	Alderbaran	Iain Rushton	Celia Rushton	WSC	16	25	17	25	27	16	99
25	737	Halcyon	Andy Hough	Jane Dickinson	RVYC	29	22	23	26	16	21	108
26	88	Hussy	Vernon Taylor	She Taylor	WSC	19	24	21	20	24	27	108
27	600	Squander	Jonathan Weeks	Alex Timms	RDYC	23	29	25	24	21	24	117
28	544	Brigand	Henry Bomby	Ryan Gerrish	RDYC	26	27	20	30	30	28	131
29	572	Purfling	Norman Harris	John Hepworth	WHSC	27	28	24	27	29	26	132
30	487	Baby Hippo	Clive Bennett	Matt Millyard	RDYC	31	26	27	31	28	29	141
31	630	Roxy	Mike Moody	Charlie Hutton	RDYC	30	30	26	28	32	31	145
32	569	Sea Breeze	Jinks Woodfield	Helen Woodfield	RDYC	35	31	28	34	33	32	158
33	679	Double Jeopardy	Chris Hitch	Matt Buckle	RDYC	34	34	31	32	31	30	158
34	448	Impetus	Mark Simpson	Alex Woodfield	RDYC	33	32	30	33	35	36	163
35	560	Scarab	David Thompson	John Phillips	RDYC	32	33	29	36	36	35	165
36	346	Squint	Shaun Gilbard	Mark Lobb	RDYC	40	40	32	37	37	34	180
37	774	Corsair	Ian McClelland	Joanne McClelland	RDYC	40	40	40	35	34	33	182
38	553	Off-Road	Kate Watson	Piers Ballard	RDYC	40	40	40	40	40	40	200
39	518	Bobby Dasler	Ian Morton	Gill Morton	RDYC	40	40	40	40	40	40	200