Birketts Decanter 2014 at Royal Harwich Yacht Club

by Matthew Rowe 29 Sep 2014 11:51 BST 23 September 2014

On Thursday 25 September 2014, lawyers Birketts LLP ran their annual event for the Birketts Decanter, for guests from the shipping and logistics industry. This event is held at Royal Harwich Yacht Club in Ajaxes (23ft three person keelboats). The owners of the Ajax fleet donate the proceeds towards the Club's junior and youth training programme and last year bought two new training optimists. These Optimists can be seen in action here.

This year, we were lucky to have warm sunny weather with a good breeze from the west for six quick short races over two hours. Racing was close and places changed throughout, but despite the presence of insurers, claims handlers and shipping and employment lawyers there were no incidents, protests or injuries at work! The emphatic winner was Rob Cage from Travelers ably crewed by our own Graham Kershaw and Ajax owner John Williams. Most importantly however everyone came ashore exhilarated from two hours of hard sailing and a number of newcomers to sailing enjoyed helming their first races.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Boat Name	Owner/Skipper	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Pts
1	14	Thunderer	John Williams	Rob Cage (Travelers)	Graham Kershaw (Birketts)	1	1	1	1	1	1	5
2	29	Pegasus	James Skellorn	Katie Brooks (BAP)	Robin Smith (BAP)	5	2	2	5	2	2	13
3	71	Dionysius	Doug Sharp	Duncan Russell (Servest)	Matt Potter (Birketts)	2	3	4	6	4	3	16
4	20	Gullimot	David Main	Sarah Wallace (Standard Club)	Henry Adams (Birketts)	3	6	3	2	3	6	17
5	23	Puffin	David Pearce	Bob Page (Port of Felixstowe)	Catherine Johnson (Birketts)	4	4	5	4	8	8	25
6	26	Teal	Bob Tate	James Walters (Gray Page)	Brian Maeng (Birketts)	7	5	6	7	5	4	27
7	34	Sirius	Ken Howe	Andrew Craig Bennett (COSCO (UK))	Alex Davey (Birketts)	DNS	DNS	DNS	3	6	5	34
8	62	Prometheus	Tim Archer	Annie O’Sullivan (Standard Club)	Duncan McGregor (Birketts)	6	7	7	8	7	7	35