DF95 Met and Southern Travellers Series 2025

DF95 Met and Southern Travellers Series 2025 - Overall

by Jim La Roche 10 Oct 2025 17:55 BST

The final round of the series is now complete. Six of the planned seven events took place. Unfortunately, Hampton Court had to cancel but hope to be back in 2026.

The series got under way at Frensham Pond, who stepped in with the venue for Guildford to run their event, who also hope to be back next year. This was followed by East Kent RSC, Datchet RS, Gosport MYC, Chipstead SC RS, and finally Eastbourne & District MYC.

DF95 Met and Southern Travellers Series final event at Eastbourne - photo © Terry Connell

With 65 skippers entering across the competition the average was approx. 55% travellers and 45% only at their own club.

I'd like to give a special mention to Ed Thorburn for managing to get to every event by public transport. Well done Ed.

With four of the six events counting, the series top three are:
1st: Nigel Barrow with an unbeatable 400 points
2nd Jim La Roche 347 points (would have been 325 without the OOD averages)
3rd Martin Crysell 275 points

Nigel Barrow wins the DF95 Met and Southern Travellers Series final event at Eastbourne - photo © Terry Connell

Thanks to all the clubs that hosted an event and all the skippers that entered.

Next year's series dates are in process and will be published soon. We're hoping to include some new venues.

Looking forward to next year.

DF95 Met and Southern Travellers Series trophy - photo © Terry Connell

Overall Series Results:

Pos	Skipper	Sail No	Guildford	East Kent	Datchet	Gosport	Chipstead	Eastbourne	Pts
1st	Nigel Barrow	54	‑100		100	100	100	100	400
2nd	Jim La Roche	57	92	OOD	OOD	‑68	‑73	92	347
3rd	Martin Crysell	52	‑62	65	62	71	‑45	77	275
4th	Colin Honour	48			85	87	67		239
5th	Dave Adams	358		100			95		195
6th	Barrie Martin	49	85	29		78			192
7th	Dorian Crease	683			92	90			183
8th	David Lindsay	23				97	78		175
9th	Alan Viney	44	31			81	34	16	163
10th	Guy Knight	29	77			65			142
11th	Vernon Appleton	73			70		62		131
12th	Mike Brand	875		93			23		116
13th	Robin Aldcroft	518					51	47	97
14th	Rob Dyer	10				94			94
15th	Adrian Tomlinson	30					89		89
16th	Alan Hounsell	380		86					86
17th	Ken Binks	83						85	85
18th	Paul Heaney	422				84			84
19th	Andrew French	160					84		84
20th	Rob Maunder	571		79					79
21st	Andrew Granger	6			47	20	12		79
22nd	Phil Holliday	66			77				77
23rd	David Coode	92			31	46			77
24th	Greg Swift	62				74			74
25th	Peter Jackson	211		72					72
26th	Paul Tickner	38	70						70
26th	Mike Blacklee	476						70	70
28th	Mike Barnes	585	24	22	24				70
29th	Mike Willett	200			39	27			66
30th	Paul Wilson	19						62	62
30th	Wayne Stobbs	42				62			62
32nd	John Derbyshire	421				58			58
33rd	Peter Glover	26		58					58
34th	John Caruana	96					56		56
35th	Neil Webb	286				55			55
36th	Graham Hetem	60			54	1			55
37th	Peter Copsey	735	54						54
37th	Raymond Gibbins	343						54	54
39th	Rob Andrews	52				52			52
40th	John Crix	112					29	24	52
41st	Peter Townsend	1		51					51
42nd	Johnny Hepworth	91				49			49
43rd	Ed Thorburn	666	9	‑8	9	23	‑7	9	49
44th	Richard Calas	502	47						47
45th	Spencer Pope	32		43					43
46th	Nigel Brown	55				43			43
47th	Mike Lightwing	881					40		40
48th	Anthony Marshall	268						39	39
48th	Simon Dwyer	507				39			39
48th	Richard Gooderick	707	39						39
51st	Andrew Nicholls	613		36					36
51st	Chris Powles	412				36			36
53rd	Michael Brophy	95				33			33
54th	Mike Wilkie	995	16		16				32
55th	Graham Brewster	316						31	31
56th	Charles Reynolds	77				30			30
57th	Celia Greetham	41		15		11			26
58th	William Grant	181					18		18
59th	Neil Baxter	24				17			17
60th	Alan Southwell	13				14			14
61st	Alan Perry	655				7			7
62nd	Chris Moore	208				4			4
63rd	Ed Coxon	7					1		1
63rd	John Banks	123						1	1
63rd	John Halne	632	1						1