RS200 Sprint Championship & Rooster National Tour Event 2 at Rutland Sailing Club
by Julian Bradley 26 Apr 2018 09:51 BST
21-22 April 2018
RS200 fleet in action at RS Sprint Championship 2018 © Peter Fothergill
The essentials of risk management are "don't make any mistakes today, don't make any mistakes tomorrow, repeat". With no discards available to spend from the Bank of Stupid (I'm overdrawn), the sprints format meant you can forget all that aspirational stuff about "missing 100% of the shots you never take". Go fast, stay out of trouble. Easy, huh? Trickier when you've blancmange brain after several tours around an 'M' Shaped course of 7 or 8 marks.
Day one our estimable RO managed 4 races in a dying breeze. To be honest, it was wheezily asthmatic in the first place, but the sun was out, so amen to all that. All this meant picking the lift on the beats and getting lower than an armadillo's armpit downwind. At the end of day 1, Maria Stanley and Rob 'Top Bants Hendo' Henderson won 3, leading myself and the Killer Shrimp, then Steve and Becky Wilson (trapeze artists formerly associated with RS800s).
Then ensued for many the prospect of actually getting fed in the fleshpots of Edith Weston – with one pub and (probably) one horse. To be fair, the staff at the sailing club did sterling work. The barman (think Moe from 'The Simpsons'... I like to think he killed a man) demonstrated his stout snurger, and the lady in the kitchen hid her true, sunny disposition, behind a winsome scowl. I then managed to find myself locked out of my accommodation, but that's another tale.
Day two, and the breeze was up to force 3-4 for 6 races. Steve and Becky won the first, but it was then all Stanley and Henderson, who dominated with 8 wins from 10 for the weekend. Steve and Becky came in second from myself and Cafferata - for once not putting all our money on the Zero.
Thanks must go to Rutland Sailing Club, their charismatic staff and very efficient race management. Credit is also due to Clare at the RS Class Association for her organisational demonry, and Rooster, for the novel approach of awarding bathroom tiles as prizes. Just another 1,999 to go to finish my new lav.
Overall Results:
| Rank |
Class |
Sail No |
Helm |
Crew |
Club |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
R5 |
R6 |
R7 |
R8 |
R9 |
R10 |
Total |
Nett |
| 1st |
RS200 |
1642 |
Maria Stanley |
Rob Henderson |
Itchenor SC/ HISC |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
12 |
12 |
| 2nd |
RS200 |
1 |
Steve Wilson |
Becky Wilson |
tbc |
6 |
2 |
6 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
33 |
33 |
| 3rd |
RS200 |
1178 |
Julian Bradley |
Helen Cafferata |
Wembly SC |
3 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
6 |
41 |
41 |
| 4th |
RS200 |
1347 |
David Jessop |
Sophie Mear |
Graham Water SC |
2 |
3 |
2 |
9 |
5 |
5 |
7 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
42 |
42 |
| 5th |
RS200 |
1373 |
Paul Cullen |
Verity Hopkins |
Weirwood SC |
4 |
6 |
3 |
8 |
6 |
8 |
8 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
56 |
56 |
| 6th |
RS200 |
1634 |
Cameron Stewart |
Tom Harrison |
HISC |
9 |
7 |
9 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
59 |
59 |
| 7th |
RS200 |
1331 |
Tom Ballantine |
Emma Horn |
Wessex SC |
5 |
5 |
5 |
6 |
10 |
9 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
5 |
62 |
62 |
| 8th |
RS200 |
1452 |
Alistair Hodgson |
Joanna Worrall |
RYA |
8 |
8 |
8 |
7 |
8 |
6 |
5 |
9 |
7 |
7 |
73 |
73 |
| 9th |
RS200 |
834 |
Andrew Gill |
Ciara Perry |
Bartley SC |
7 |
10 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
7 |
9 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
76 |
76 |
| 10th |
RS200 |
1670 |
Alice Senior |
Matthew Conyers |
Plymouth |
11 |
9 |
10 |
10 |
DNC |
10 |
10 |
8 |
10 |
10 |
100 |
100 |
| 11th |
RS200 |
1132 |
Jonathan Leeding |
Rachel Lennox |
Hunts SC |
10 |
11 |
11 |
11 |
9 |
11 |
11 |
11 |
11 |
11 |
107 |
107 |