Dinghy Shack National 12 Sprint Event at Burghfield Sailing Club

by Tom Lee 14 Apr 2022 15:05 BST 9 April 2022

Four visitors came to join the 5 local boats for the N12 Burghfield sprint event sponsored by Dinghy Shack. The wind was a shifty north westerly 10-15kts with the odd gust in the low 20's.

Race officers Ann and Nick Jackson assisted by Charlotte Bell set a short trapezoid course at the top end of the lake. With the aim of running 8 two lap races during the day.

The first 2 races were won by Graham and Anya Camm with Ian and Alex Gore, Jon Ibbotson and Rachel Smith and Jon and Mandy Thornton filling up the podium places so clearly sailing as a family is the way to go! The shifty wind made for a good game of snakes and ladders with a lot of place changes, as well as keeping the mark laying team of Mike Bell and David and Rowan Copse busy.

In race 3, Jon and Rachel took the win followed by Graham and Anya and George Finch and Toby Hunt in third. After 4 races, the fleet retired to the club house for a well earned lunch, with Graham and Anya leading having scored 3 firsts and a second.

In the afternoon the wind had increased slightly and shifted requiring a course reset of the course and start line move, this didn't last long however and by the second afternoon race we were back where we started. Graham and Anya scored another two firsts and two seconds giving them a comfortable win overall, Jon and Rachel scored two wins during the day but where beaten to second place by Ian and Alex's more consistent results.

Dan Meadowcroft crewed by Zoe Ballantyne was 1st under 21, and Nigel and Chris White first non foiler.

All prize winners received discount vouchers as well as a range of goodies donated by our series sponsor Dinghy Shack.

Next dinghy shack event is at Salcombe Yacht club on April 30th - May 2nd.

Overall Results:

Pos	Helm	Crew	Sail No	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R8	R8	Pts
1st	Graham Camm	Anya Camm	3530	Burghfield Sailing Club	1st	1st	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	2nd	1st	7
2nd	Ian Gore	Alex Gore	3525	Up River Yacht Club	2nd	3rd	4th	2nd	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	12
3rd	Jon Ibbotson	Rachel Smith	3540	Burghfield Sailing Club	6th	2nd	1st	3rd	4th	1st	4th	3rd	14
4th	John Thornton	Mandy Thornton	3443	Burghfield Sailing Club	3rd	4th	8th	4th	3rd	4th	3rd	4th	21
5th	Dan Meadowcroft	Zoe Ballantyne	3471	Upper Thames	4th	6th	6th	5th	5th	5th	6th	7th	31
6th	George Finch	Toby Hunt	3551	Royal Harwich YC	8th	8th	3rd	6th	7th	7th	9th	5th	36
7th	Thomas Lee	Jennefer Bugge	3545	Burghfield Sailing Club	7th	9th	5th	8th	8th	9th	5th	6th	39
8th	Nigel White	Chis White	3445	Burghfield Sailing Club	5th	5th	9th	9th	6th	8th	7th	9th	40
9th	Paul Keeling	Izzy Keeling	3469	Blithfield	9th	7th	7th	7th	9th	6th	8th	8th	43