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Waples Wines Flying Fifteen Northern Travellers series - Roundup

by David McKee 15 Aug 2012 09:23 BST August 2012

The Waples Wines Series has now passed the halfway mark for the season and is producing a more open competition than seen for the last few years. It is not all sailing however as this year competitors at Bassenthwaite had a great Saturday night that included a wine tasting courtesy of the sponsor.

The first event of the series, at Bassenthwaite has now been followed by leg 2 at Ogston Sailing Club near Chesterfield and leg 3 at Burton Sailing Club near Derby. To date there have been 24 competitors in the series representing a total of 7 clubs.

At present lying 1st overall in the open category are Jon and Julia Ward from Ogston Sailing Club on 4 points closely followed by Simon Longstaff and Jon Denwood from Bassenthwaite Sailing Club on 6 points. In the classic and silver categories all is still to play for.

The finale of the series takes place at Dovestone Sailing Club on 29/30 September where the winners will be decided. As always Dovestone will put on a great event that will include one of the famous “Waples Wine tastings” greatly enjoyed by all at Bassenthwaite earlier in the season followed by the final series prize giving. For further information on the Dovestone event contact David McKee at david.mckee@scanlanscs.com

Full results of the series available on the Flying 15 website.

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