Noble Marine Supernova Travellers at Cotswold Sailing Club

by Cliff Milliner 27 Mar 2018 08:33 BST 24 March 2018

It was a great turnout of 33 boats at the Noble Marine travellers event at Cotswold Sailing Club, including the current National champion coming to see what true lake sailing was all about, were greeted with a light 2-3knts, that slowly died as the afternoon went on.

RO David Bevan set a nice course given the wind and everyone got away cleanly. The port end looked good, but it was the right-hand side that paid at the top mark, Bartley’s Steve Hawley lead the way from the Cotswold duo of Gavin, Cliff with Mike close behind. Gavin was sailing fast but not always the right way, yo-yo-ing from 1st to 4th all race, but the RO shortened the course at the right time with Gav just sneaking through to take the line from, Mike, Steve, then Cliff.

After the legendary CSC (Sam Hood) lunch, the sailors went back out into a dying breeze.

In race 2 you might have thought you heard a dog yelping in pain, but no, that was the dulcet tones of Frank McMullen from Bolton Sailing Club who was first to the windward mark. In hot pursuit were Andrew Snell and Gavin. Andrew and Gavin sneaked past Frank - it was nice whilst it lasted hey Frank. But no Frank was not going to roll over this time, he overtook both Gavin and Andrew to retake the lead. In the end it was incredibly close with Andrew but it was Frank who took his first ever supernova open race win. Frank's celebration was of Olympic gold proportions and they may have heard it in Bolton. Apparently, he’s now going to retire, as it can’t get any better!

Race 3 saw Snell and Young fighting for the lead and the overall title, with Snell getting the better on the second beat. Behind there was a lot of place changes as the small gusts came and went. In the end Snell took line from Young. Milliner 3rd just pipped Hawley on the line pushing him down to 5th in the over all rankings. There was a bit of a wait for the fleet as the wind died, leaving a few nervous sailors marooned just before crossing the line, but In the end everyone made it home in time for tea and cakes.

So Andrew took the overall win, Gavin second then Cliff, Mike and Steve. Frank was 7th overall (behind class chairman Chris Hawley in 6th) beating current national champion Alex Horlock. Ellen was first lady in 15th overall.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Helm	Club	R1	R2	R3	Pts
1st	1186	A Snell	ASA	‑5	2	1	3
2nd	1192	G Young	Cotswold SC	1	‑4	2	3
3rd	1190	C Milliner	Cotswold sc	‑4	3	3	6
4th	1127	M Gibson	Bartley	2	‑6	5	7
5th	1133	S Hawley	Bartley SC	3	‑11	4	7
6th	1224	C Hawley	Bartley SC	6	5	‑7	11
7th	1068	F Mcmullen	Bolton SC	‑21	1	13	14
8th	1060	A Horlock	Exe SC	8	‑14	6	14
9th	649	T Boldwin	Carsington	‑19	9	8	17
10th	1223	J Pebody	Hunts SC	‑14	8	10	18
11th	1184	G Butterfield	Bartley SC	9	‑19	9	18
12th	1217	R Workman	Costwold SC	7	‑22	16	23
13th	1179	C Hobbs	Bowmore	17	7	‑22	24
14th	1203	S Johnson	Cotswold SC	13	‑15	12	25
15th	1115	J White	Costwold SC	‑18	16	11	27
16th	688	P Stanly jones	Costwold SC	(DNS)	10	19	29
17th	576	C Brown	Bolton SC	‑20	12	18	30
18th	1069	B Smith	Bowmoor SC	‑23	13	17	30
19th	1141	E Clancy	Cotswold SC	16	‑18	14	30
20th	1160	P Undrell	Haversham	12	21	‑30	33
21st	1137	A Gould	Cotswold SC	11	24	‑27	35
22nd	1057	I Casewell	Cotswold SC	15	‑31	20	35
23rd	1079	B Horlock	Exe SC	10	‑28	26	36
24th	1163	C Watts	Sutton Bingham SC	24	‑25	15	39
25th	1109	L Jeanes	Costwold SC	22	17	(DNF)	39
26th	1156	R Corner		25	20	(DNF)	45
27th	627	C Martin	Swalkstone	‑26	23	23	46
28th	1130	N Whiles	Attenborough	‑29	29	21	50
29th	1099	P Housley	Sutton in Ashfield	‑30	26	24	50
30th	1083	S Stewardson	Emberton Park	27	‑30	25	52
31st	1096	A Birch	Bartley	‑31	27	29	56
32nd	1168	J Walpole	Exe SC	28	‑32	31	59
33rd	408	D Stephen		32	‑33	28	60