Itchenor Sailing Club Schools Championships

Itchenor Sailing Club Schools Championships – Firefly Regatta Day 1

by Rebecca Oldfield 30 Jun 2017 09:42 BST 25-30 June 2017

Fireflys at the Itchenor Schools Championships © Jessica Marsh

Thursday dawned grey, overcast and damp in Chichester Harbour. Hardly ideal sailing conditions since the wind was light too. However, the 48-strong fleet of Fireflys got away for their first race only a few minutes late caused by the fickle breeze.

First to show at the windward mark were Cossie and Izzy Lewis from Sevenoaks School but just behind were Ben Childerley and Ollie Croft from Sherborne College. At the second windward mark, which was the finish, it was Childerley and Croft who took line honours ahead of Harry Barker and Ivan Pylee (Burford School) with Winchester College's Miles Jones and Tiger Tellwright in third place. Jones and Tellwright moved up to second place in the second race behind Dom Lewis and Oscar Wright from Tonbridge School with the Portsmouth Grammar School pairing of Charles Elliott and Joseph Bradley making up the top three.

The third race course took the fleet down-harbour towards East Head. Childerley and Croft led the fleet to the first windward mark – a lead they extended through the race. The battle for second place was very close with Jones and Tellwright just ahead of the James Allen's Girls School crew of Julia Mellors and Eveline Suer.

A picnic lunch was enjoyed on the beach at East Head before the fourth race on a course set by race officer Alastair Shaw in the Stocker Lake area south of Thorney Island. With the wind variable in strength and deviating through 45 degrees, Childerley and Croft played cat and mouse with Jones and Tellwright up a conservative track up the centre of the course. However, those who went way left risked the stronger tide that flourished as the pressure built from the South. The windward mark saw the leaders Julian Fung and Elliott Marshall (Rugby School) ahead of Elliott and Bradley with Tonbridge School's Rory Fulton and Harry Tilling not far behind. At the leeward mark the wind was very light and the subsequent beat tested the leaders. Fulton and Tilling made the best of the conditions to take first place with Elliott and Bradley second and Fung and Marshall a well deserved third place, their best of the day.

In races five and six Childerley and Croft re-established their winning ways to end the day on top of the leaderboard. Jones and Tellwright scored seventh and second to ensure they have a healthy gap ahead of the chasing pack.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	School	Helm & Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Pts
1	26	Sherborne	Ben Childerley & Ollie Croft	1	4	1	9	1	1	8
2	18	Winchester	Miles Jones & Tiger Tellwright	3	2	4	10	7	2	18
3	39	RGS Guildford	Oliver Perkins & Etienne Westphad	6	OCS	15	5	4	4	34
4	5	PGS	Charles Elliott & Joseph Bradley	8	3	21	2	22	3	37
5	6	Burford	Harry Barker & Ivan Pylee	2	7	8	16	10	32	43
6	19	JAGS	Julia Mellors & Eveline Suer	15	6	3	19	8	16	48
7	2	Rugby	Julian Fung & Elliott Marshall	23	18	10	3	14	7	52
8	36	Magdalen	Eleanor Elder & Cyrus Ledru	20	8	6	38	9	9	52
9	1	Tonbridge	Rory Fulton & Harry Tilling	13	20	12	1	11	17	54
10	34	Magdalen	Adam Rathmell & Ezra Leake	24	10	2	33	17	6	59
11	45	Winchester	Tx Firey & Foster Ng	9	14	17	12	23	11	63
12	35	Magdalen	Lucy Greenwood & Tom Van Oss	14	5	7	29	12	35	67
13	15	Sevenoaks	Oliver Kidd & Helen Jones	27	16	28	15	3	8	69
14	11	Millfield	Scarlett Manzoni & Octavia Greig	16	17	5	20	18	14	70
15	40	RGS Guildford	Patrick Croghan & James Dickinson	17	9	13	35	13	19	71
16	13	Sevenoaks	Nick Davies & Ed Salmon	7	12	38	36	6	13	74
17	4	Priors Field	Alice Handley & Georgina Sim	18	13	16	27	16	12	75
18	16	Sevenoaks	Cossie Lewis & Issy Lewis	5	OCS	25	22	5	26	83
19	37	Magdalen	George Potter & Edmund Corker	29	11	11	32	2	31	84
20	29	Ardingly	Harry Tucker & Robbie Elliot	19	25	9	4	BFD	30	87
21	14	Sevenoaks	Elias Machetto & Fedora Roma	31	OCS	26	11	15	5	88
22	3	Tonbridge	Dom Lewis & Oscar Wright	4	1	23	18	DNC	DNC	93
23	41	RGS Guildford	Nick Forbes & Freddie Cousins	12	15	29	24	27	21	99
24	44	RGS Guildford	Alec Shackleton & Charlie Dorkins	35	23	18	8	39	23	107
25	31	Oundle	Ed Wilken & Louis de Gale	37	28	24	17	30	10	109
26	38	Magdalen	Nick Ng & Juliette Welham	11	OCS	19	31	24	25	110
27	46	Winchester	Harry Johnstone & Gerrard Cloke Broure	10	29	31	26	34	20	116
28	27	Sherborne	Freddie Last & Ben Fuller	30	24	30	14	20	28	116
29	42	RGS Guildford	Max Male & Bryn Bennet	25	19	22	30	21	29	116
30	28	Ardingly	Zac Riley & Louis Inglefield	33	26	20	6	33	34	118
31	12	Millfield	Charlie Mullins & Freddie Poore	34	32	14	7	31	DNC	118
32	17	Sevenoaks	Matt Caiger & Alexander Foglu	26	21	35	39	19	18	119
33	33	Oundle	Harry Curtis & Milo Cliff	21	22	34	21	37	22	120
34	47	Winchester	Ryan Ghent & Kit Truscrom Eve	22	30	32	37	26	15	125
35	10	Seaford	Oliver Randall May & Isobel Porter	28	33	36	13	25	27	126
36	25	Stowe	Will Trumper & James Clark	32	27	27	23	36	33	142
37	9	Wellington	Luli Shaw & Owen Evans	38	34	39	25	28	24	149
38	24	Stowe	Alex Holmes & William Warde Norbury	36	31	41	34	38	DNC	180
39	43	RGS Guildford	Harry Blandford & Milo Coombs	42	38	33	41	35	37	184
40	21	JAGS	Catherine Law & Pandora Mackenzie	39	40	37	40	29	40	185
41	23	Dulwich	Max Lams & Charlie Kearney	40	36	44	28	43	41	188
42	7	Seaford	Thomas Lawson & William Greaves	43	37	40	42	40	36	195
43	22	Dulwich	Dom Taffs & Luke Cunningham	45	39	42	44	32	39	196
44	20	JAGS	Chloe Davies & Amelia Cummings	46	35	43	45	41	38	202
45	8	Seaford	Sebastian Ellingsen & Lily Henderson	44	41	46	43	42	DNC	216
46	32	Oundle	Edmund Burgess & Rufus Lee Browne	41	42	45	DNC	DNC	DNC	222