Grafham Water Sailing Club

Archive for June, 2010

Congratulations to Simon Kneller and Dave Lucas for achieving a second at the Flying Fifteen Inland Championships at Bewl Valley. The event was won by Evans and Goacher. Light winds on the Saturday made for difficult racing. Stronger winds on the Sunday led to a first. Other Grafham sailors at the Inlands were Ian Stowe (with Justin Waples) 9th, Pippa Noon (with Brette Dingwall) 10th, Julian Clark & Mark Stott 17th, Collin Nutt and Chris Hough 26th. There were 47 entries in total.

Dave Lucas and Mark Longstaff won the Bulwark Trophy at Hayling Island Sailing Club against some stong competition. Congratulations!

Race Reports http://www.flying15.org.uk/racereports/reports.asp http://www.flying15.org.uk/racereports/results2010/F15_inlands_2010.htm

Many congratulations to  Brian Appleyard of GWSC who has won the Gold Roman Bowl in his Nordic Folkboat.

Below is an extract from an account in Yachts and Yachting:

Ten hours since the first gun was fired in the 2010 J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, and finishing yachts are streaming into Cowes with half of the 1754 entries having completed the 50-mile marathon.

Unusually we have the winner of the Gold Roman Bowl, the top prize in the Race for the first overall on corrected time in IRC-rated classes. Nordic Bear is a Nordic Folkboat owned and raced by Brian Appleyard from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. He came second in IRC overall in 2009. This boat has beaten Madelaine who won the Gold Roman Bowl in 2007.

Strong northerly winds didn’t deter the 30 hardy entrants in the Beds and Cambs Regatta.  Sailability made a strong showing taking the first three places in the Slow Handicap.  Congratulations to Kirsten Pollock who won all three races in Challenger 265. Read the rest of this entry »

Fine weather, warm (but shifty winds), close sailing, no dramas! - what else could you wish for!

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