420 Worlds Selector 1 at Hayling Island Sailing Club

by Nick Martin 31 Mar 2003 14:51 BST

22/23 March 2003

Sixty-one teams contested the first selection meeting for the International 420 Class teams for the World and Junior European Championships. The meeting was hosted by Hayling Island Sailing Club from their great new clubhouse on the 22/23 March. The weather was glorious with bright sunshine and 8-12 knots of breeze from the east all weekend giving ideal sailing conditions. Callum MacDonald, fresh from his win at the Vilamoura regatta in Portugal in early March and crewed by Haakon Karlsen, sailed a very good series to win comfortably from Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes and Jonathan Frazer, and top girls Charlotte Savage and Maia Walsh and Pippa Wilson and Harriette Trumble.

All three selection meetings are to be held at Hayling Island in preparation for the World Championships which will be held there in July. Results at last year’s international meetings were very encouraging and, with many of the same team sailing are being pressed by newcomers to the class, it is hoped that this practice on the Worlds’ sailing water will give the selected team a good boost.

All weekend, Race Officer Colin Waters and his team set good long starting lines and the fleet had only 2 general recalls, although this may have had something to do with the black flag rule introduced from Race 2. In Race 1 Wilson and Trumble led at the first and began to pull away on the run. Unfortunately for them the Judge decided to set an early precedent and penalised them for excessive pumping. This enabled Savage and Walsh and Fitzjohn-Sykes and Frazer to slip past and take the first two positions. In Race 2 Savage and Walsh shot to an early lead. Behind them MacDonald and Karlsen pressed them hard and opened up a good gap from the third team of sister Joanne MacDonald and Laurie Marsden (Callum’s crew in Vilamoura). For Race 3 there was a shade more breeze which favoured the left side of the first beat. Fitzjohn-Sykes and Frazer sailed well to hold off the Luke Patience and Adam Wagner and Olly Dix and Philip Lasko. In Race 4 MacDonald and Karlsen recovered their poise and led from the start to finish with a long lead over Alison Martin and Bethan Carden, who were comfortably ahead of Stuart Bithell and Jonathan McGovern. By the end of the day the consistent Fitzjohn-Sykes and Frazer had a small lead over MacDonald and Karlsen, and Savage and Walsh.

The weather for Sunday was just as good as it was at the end of Saturday. And so were MacDonald and Karlsen. In both Races 5 and 6 they took early leads and sailed away to win comfortably. In Race 5 Patience and Wagner held off Wilson and Trumble, with this contest finishing the other way around in Race 6. Fitzjohn-Sykes and Frazer had a poor Race 5 so MacDonald and Karlsen were now in a very safe position, not needing to take any risks. In Race 7 Dix and Lasko made up for a couple of poor races by taking a long lead which they were able to hold from Patience and Wagner. In Race 8 Savage and Walsh got going again, leading at the first mark and pulling away from the fleet on the first fast reach to take an unassailable lead. Fitzjohn-Sykes and Frazer slipped past Nick Cherry and Joe Henry to complete a good series. Unfortunately for Patience and Wagner their good run came to an end and a poor race dropped them from 2 to 5 overall.

Many thanks to Hayling Island for their hospitality.

Overall Results:

Pos	Sail No	Helm	Crew	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	Pts
1	51174	Callum Macdonald	Haakon Karlsen	RNCYC HSC	3	2	11	1	1	1	8	14	16
2	51073	Laurie Fitzjohn Sykes	Jonathan Frazer	RYA	2	9	1	4	36	8	3	2	20
3	50660	Charlotte Savage	Maia Walsh	Barnt Green SC	1	1	21	5	13	7	9	1	24
4	51197	Pippa Wilson	Harriette Trumble	Royal Lymington YC	7	26	24	6	3	2	4	5	27
5	51194	Luke Patience	Adam Wagner	RNCYC HSC	20	16	2	9	2	3	2	17	34
6	50974	Stuart Bithell	Jonathan McGovern	Hollingworth Lake SC	8	19	32	3	10	5	6	8	40
7	50781	Oliver Gray	James Hughes		30	6	7	7	7	10	30	10	47
8	51173	Joanne Macdonald	Laurie Marsden	RNCYC HSC	24	3	5	13	5	4	22	18	48
9	50548	Nick Cherry	Joe Henry	Hayling Island SC	13	4	22	15	11	11	7	3	49
10	50938	Eamonn King	Tom Mapplebeck	Derwent Reservoir SC	9	8	6	8	16	15	11	20	57
11	51262	Simon Lambert	Chris Evans	Parkstone YC	11	17	14	14	17	14	5	6	64
12	51175	Oliver Dix	Philip Lasko	Hayling Island SC	26	5	3	10	30	20	1	32	65
13	51164	Alison Martin	Bethan Carden	Burghfield SC	16	22	25	2	4	6	62	19	69
14	51048	Nathan Batchelor	James Clark	Clevedon SC	18	7	26	17	8	18	25	11	79
15	51274	James Goss	Daniel Schieber	Burghfield SC	19	11	18	22	23	16	13	4	81
16	51061	Thomas Mallindine	Ross Harvey	British Steel SC	4	12	12	20	29	19	20	16	83
17	49653	Jenny Taylor	Mari Shepherd	Leigh & Lowton	10	25	17	35	12	23	15	7	84
18	50771	Sam Carter	Paul Davies	Waldringfield SC	23	15	4	23	15	9	21	21	85
19	51176	Ben Ainsworth	Thomas Heywood	Bewl Valley SC	25	10	15	16	9	21	18	22	89
20	50838	Matt Burge	Jez Nickolls	Poole YC	6	21	34	31	21	13	17	13	91
21	51196	Micky Boughton	Sophie Anderson	Itchenor SC	12	24	23	21	27	12	10	15	93
22	51107	Lucy Macgregor	Nicola Macgregor	Poole YC	5	13	16	19	18	29	23	27	94
23	51234	Joanna Brigg	Jane Turner	Itchenor SC	15	27	30	12	37	17	16	12	99
24	51195	Rachel Wigmore	Mary Rook		22	14	27	11	6	27	29	26	106
25	50956	Roger Carter	Ian Robertson	Wormit Boating Club	29	20	8	18	14	24	28	30	112
26	50372	Ian Dobson	Andrew Hall	Burwain SC	14	35	9	26	22	35	19	62	125
27	50955	Fynn Sterritt	Matthew Day	Loch Morlich SC	28	18	19	28	19	25	31	28	137
28	50761	Laura Wade	Jessica Makey	Corinthian Otters	35	23	20	25	25	31	27	23	143
29	50505	Neil Crossouard	Andrew Greer	Weir Wood SC	31	42	13	24	20	22	62	43	152
30	51023	John Downie	Geoff Tait	Royal Cork YC	17	31	10	27	35	62	62	36	156
31	49541	Christian Birrell	Mark Stockbridge	Leigh & Lowton SC	39	32	43	40	39	28	14	9	161
32	51108	Chris Witty	Peter Halswell	British Steel SC	38	30	28	30	26	42	32	31	177
33	50816	Laura Farrell	Alison Bennett	Draycote Water SC	27	34	31	29	28	30	34	33	178
34	50661	Chris Carden	Sophie White	Royal Lymington	50	33	39	36	42	26	12	35	181
35	51024	Sophie Ainsworth	Lucy Cripps	Bewl Valley SC	21	36	33	41	24	34	33	41	181
36	49956	Robyn Phillips	Rachel Jarvis	Blithfield SC	32	37	35	34	33	41	24	25	183
37	50782	Karen Smalley	Claire Paramore	Chew Valley Lake SC	36	28	36	33	38	37	26	29	188
38	50954	Rowan Popplewell	Nikki Stewart	Clyde CC	34	40	29	37	31	38	38	24	193
39	51051	Sam Maxfield	Ed Wilkinson	Hayling Island SC	49	29	40	32	32	44	36	40	209
40	50401	Lisa Tait	Pippa Wilkinson	Royal Cork YC	48	38	41	45	34	39	37	34	223
41	50213	Charlotte Clay	Poppy Husband	Lymington Town SC	41	39	37	39	40	33	41	42	229
42	50209	Samantha Green	Kate Sudell	Royal Corinthian YC	45	41	38	43	48	45	35	38	240
43	49170	Kate Mackenzie	Holly Scott	Royal Windermere	33	45	50	62	41	32	43	62	244
44	50363	Bess Mayhew	Katie Preston	Bough Beech	44	52	51	46	44	36	39	37	246
45	50031	Robin Stewart	Matthew Forrester	Royal Northern & Clyde SC	47	48	47	38	49	43	42	46	263
46	50177	Tom Sanderson	James Kent	Mumbles YC	42	43	48	52	43	46	45	62	267
47	49839	Antonia Bull	Lucy Adamson	Stone SC	54	47	44	50	46	40	47	47	271
48	50549	Niki Birrell	Simon Forbes	Leigh & Lowton SC	37	50	53	49	47	47	55	44	274
49	50881	Jonathan Bond	Jeremy Fowke	Itchenor SC	52	49	42	44	50	62	56	45	282
50	50883	Andrew Shaw	William Kalderon	Itchenor SC	56	44	49	42	57	55	44	49	283
51	50117	Oliver Woods	Tom Price	Itchenor SC	58	51	46	47	45	49	48	53	286
52	48097	Bronwen Burton	Ceri Henshall	Barry YC	46	53	45	48	52	50	51	50	290
53	49102	Emily Rowlandson	Laura Newnham	YSC	43	46	55	54	55	54	46	51	294
54	49546	Emma Clarke	Rici Marshall	Dovey SC	57	60	52	51	58	48	53	39	300
55	49794	Alex Claxton	Richard Mills	Penarth	51	55	62	62	51	52	50	48	307
56	50179	Carly Burge	Jenny Macgregor	Poole YC	55	58	56	53	54	57	40	62	315
57	50457	Pip Holloway	Katie Tessler	Burghfield SC	60	59	62	62	53	51	49	54	326
58	51273	Bethan Henshall	Jo Powell	Port Dinorwic SC	61	61	57	59.7	56	53	54	52	331.7
59	49544	Jessica Mapplebeck	Kirsty Skinner	Weston SC	40	56	54	62	62	62	62	62	336
60	50884	Gemma McIntyre	Elizabeth Andrew	Hayling Island SC	59	57	62	62	62	56	52	55	341
61	39553	Thomas Herbert-Evans	Daniel Herbert-Evans	Mumbles YC	53	54	58	62	59	62	62	62	348