2000 class West Country Boat Repairs Millennium Series at Bough Beech Sailing Club

by Pete Vincent 30 Apr 18:52 BST 26 April 2025

Oh to be young, light and talented!

Round 2 of the West Country Boat Repairs 2000 Millennium Series at Bough Beech was a real tour de force for the club, race team and class. Once again the racing demonstrated what a fun family boat the 2000 is with results dominated by family boats featuring some very young and talented sailors.

26 boats launched into a fairly variable in direction 5-8 knot breeze. Your correspondent feared for the race team's hair as first start time approached. No sooner had they set a square course and line then the wind shifted 50 degrees. Off the safety boats went with the marks only for the wind to go back to exactly where it had been! It was threatening to be a long day for the race team!

But with a lot of common sense the ambitious programme of six short races was fitted in in very good time including a well planned lunch break to grab packed lunches and fluid from the galley. The wind even firmed up after lunch to be a more steady 8-10 knots. Amazingly there was only one general recall and the black flag soon brought discipline to the next starts.

The racing saw a majestic star performance from 8 year old Benjamin Pascoe at the helm with father Sam crewing. The team won five of the races in fine style to record a comprehensive overall victory. The only race they did not win was the first race won by Matt Larkin with 11 year old son Oliver awesome as a crew. The Larkin's had a fine day finishing fourth overall.

After a dodgy first race young talented Louisa Ching sorted her dad Jonathan out and the duo scored three seconds, a third and a fourth to beat arch rivals the not so young, light or talented Paul Cullen/Fresh Abernstern by a point.

Further adrift in fifth and sixth overall came the ancient heavyweight mariners Pete Vincent with the young/light Ellie Parle crewing and Matt Sargent/Ross Southwell.

In seventh Bill Dawber/Claire Power had some real bursts of speed and led race 1 for a long period at one stage being half a leg clear before falling into an unfortunate hole.

So ended a sun-drenched day. Huge vote of thanks to everyone at Bough Beech involved with running the event.

Next round of the West Country Boat Repairs Millennium Series is at the Pascoe's back yard of Castle Cove on May24th/25th which promises to be a belter of an event.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Pts
1st	2190	Benjamin Pascoe	Sam Pascoe	‑2	‑1	1	1	1	1	4
2nd	2193	Jonathan Ching	Louisa Ching	‑6	2	‑4	2	2	3	9
3rd	2321	Paul Cullen	Fresh Abernstern	‑5	3	2	3	‑4	2	10
4th	2328	Matt Larkin	Oliver Larkin	1	‑7	‑7	6	3	4	14
5th	22713	Peter Vincent	Ellie Parle	4	4	8	‑9	‑9	5	21
6th	2355	Matt Sargent	Ross Southwell	7	‑9	6	5	5	‑8	23
7th	22744	Bill Dawber	Claire Power	3	5	‑12	‑14	7	10	25
8th	22167	Lawrence Cavill‑Grant	Rory Moppett	‑14	11	3	11	6	‑13	31
9th	2212	Adrian Stell	Roz Stell	9	13	5	4	‑18	‑15	31
10th	22361	Miles Wade	Anderley Wade	‑12	‑18	9	8	8	6	31
11th	2854	Tim Hulley	Linda Hulley	10	6	‑16	‑12	11	9	36
12th	22098	Jonathan Bailey	Matther Bailey	11	8	‑13	7	‑12	11	37
13th	2085	Mo Fitzpatrick	Sarah Burridge	‑16	‑10	10	10	10	7	37
14th	21003	George Smith	Sarah Seddon	8	15	‑17	15	16	‑18	54
15th	2	Henry Bright	Susie Bright	13	12	(DNC)	16	‑20	14	55
16th	22064	Jo Field	Annabel Larkin	19	‑20	11	‑20	14	12	56
17th	2217	Edie Carter	Jeremy Carter	‑18	14	14	18	13	‑21	59
18th	2231	Richard Franks	Toby Franks	15	‑22	‑19	17	15	16	63
19th	21155	Harry Burgess	George Burgess	‑22	17	(DNC)	13	19	17	66
20th	2861	Bruce Kidd	Patsy David	‑21	16	15	19	‑21	20	70
21st	22639	Unknown		‑20	19	18	‑21	17	19	73
22nd	22722	Rebecca Smith	Francesca Smith	17	23	20	‑24	22	(RET)	82
23rd	22321	Rachel Sheridan	Geoff Lambert	‑23	21	21	23	‑24	22	87
24th	21660	Scarlett Burgess	Robert Burgess	‑24	‑24	22	22	23	23	90
25th	21968	Xander Hurley	Waldo Moolman	(RET)	(DNS)	DNS	DNS	DNC	DNC	104