I14 Prince of Wales Cup at Hayling Island Sailing Club

by Archie Massey 19 Jul 2010 10:46 BST 17 July 2010

After two days held ashore due to 30 knot winds, the 2010 Prince of Wales Cup was eagerly anticipated. And waking up to steady 20 knots on Saturday morning, it didn’t disappoint.

Come the start the wind had dropped to 12 knots from the west and a relatively short mile long beat was set for the 6 lap epic. The early pace setters were Roger Gilbert sailing with Ben McGrane and Andy Partington and son, taking maximum gain from the strong south westerly filling in. Showing early promise in his brand new Ting Tong 1, Douglas Pattison and Mark Tait rounded the top mark in 4th. They later retired as they struggled with the lack of kick bars on the new boat. Meanwhile Mark Upside-Down had tacked off right and rounded well down the fleet and Archie Massey sailing with Damian Ash, was lashing his lowers which has parted company with the deck on his borrowed boat.

Two laps later, the wind had built to 26 knots and there was huge carnage at the newly laid top mark and gybe mark, thinning out the fleet at the front.

Towards the end of the third downwind leg, the leaders, Gilbert and Partington had both gybed back early to the leeward mark and in trying to do the double gybe into the leeward mark, both fell in. Massey took advantage of this to briefly take the lead. However Gilbert proved quicker upwind and soon was able to pass. And a pitch-pole down the 4th run for Massey turned it into a two-horse race.

Starting the final reaching legs Gilbert had pulled out a 100 yd lead using his superior upwind speed. However Partington taking the attitude that 2nd is the first loser pushed hard down the first reach and was able to gybe inside Gilbert at the gybe mark, setting up what would have been a photo finish. However moments later they did a huge pitch pole, allowing both Massey and Upton-Brown through to 2nd and 3rd. Mark can now banish his old nick-name to the history books after a surviving without a capsize in the 25 knot Hayling Bay chop.

Congratulations to Roger Gilbert and Ben McGrane for sailing a superb race, going fast upwind and staying in control down the bouncy runs.

Overall Results:
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Pos	Sail No	Helm	Crew	Club	PoW Cup Race	Pts
1st	GBR 1541	Roger Gilbert	Ben McGrane	HISC	1	1
2nd	GBR 1500	Archie Massey	Damian Ash	Itchenor SC	2	2
3rd	GBR 1526	Mark Upton-Brown	Matt Gotrel	HISC/Itchenor SC	3	3
4th	GBR 1540	Andy Partington	Tom Partington	HISC	4	4
5th	GER 28	Georg Borkenstein	Eike Dietrich	WSCW	5	5
6th	GBR 1536	Jarrod Simpson	Tim Paull	HISC	6	6
7th	GBR 1531	Andrew Penman	Phil Kennard	Itchenor SC	7	7
8th	GBR 1496	Martin Pascal	Robin Pascal	Itchenor SC	8	8
9th	GBR 1505	Simon Hiscocks	Olly Spensley Corfield	HISC	9	9
10th	GBR 527	Steve Fisher	Neil Barber	HISC	10	10
11th	GBR 1520	Katie Nurton	David Royse	Itchenor SC	11	11
12th	GBR 1425	Kimball Morrison	Charlie Crone	Itchenor SC	12	12
13th	GBR 1509	Sam Pascoe	Alex Knight	Castle Cove SC	13	13
14th	GBR 1523	Doug Walker	Louise Walker	Itchenor SC	14	14
15th	GER 12	Dirk Rother	Kai Lassen	SV Wakenitz	15	15
16th	GBR 1488	Takashi Furugaki	Satoshi Ishida	Japan i14 fleet	16	16
17th	GBR 1495	Charles Duchesne	Andrew Handasyde Dick	Itchenor SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1525	Dan Watts	Ben Watts	HISC	DNS	38
17th	GBR 1442	Tom Watkins	Sam Woolner	Weston SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1474	Rich Dobson	Hugh Maclean	Itchenor SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1415	K George	Warrick Ker	Weston SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1542	Damon Roberts	Alan Roberts	HISC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1480	Tom Smedley	Charlie Tavner	HISC	DNC	38
17th	GBR 1	Neale Jones	Jam Adam	HISC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1538	Martin Jones	Zeb Elliot	HISC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1539	Paul Ravenhill	Mike Thomson	HISC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1463	Julian Pearson	Nick Martin	Weston SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1532	Adrian Williams	Stewart Meers	HISC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1543	Glen Truswell	Chris Blackburn	RYA	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1527	Jamie Reid	Lee Arnison	No Club indicated	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1484	Tom Heywood	Ed Clay	HISC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1534	Andy Fitzgerald	Leif Stenhouse	Itchenor SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1074		Alan Beeton	Burghfield SC	DNC	38
17th	GBR 1508	Colin Smith	Peter Helm	Itchenor SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1467	Peter Conway	Virginia Harvey	Lymington Town SC	DNS	38
17th	GBR 1544	Douglas Pattison	Mark Tait	Itchenor SC	DNF	38
17th	GBR 1466	Wayne Hancox	Richard Adams	Bartly SC	DNF	38