Budworth Sailing Club

The 2008 season kicked off in fine style, sunshine and a nice Force 3 and a good turn out of 18 boats (2 Fireballs, 6 RS200, 4 Snipes, 4 Lasers, 1 Mirror,1 Firefly, no GP’s) .

OD Noble set some interesting starts, with courses that encompassed all parts of sailing ; along beat , 2 short reaches and a long run back to ensure no class of boat was particularly advantaged. Race one went to Tinsley-Cowan followed by Taylor-Taylor in their RS200’s whilst the fit again Wilcock(all alone) came in 3 rd in his Laser.
The second race saw the Lasers dominate with Harry Brown winning by one second from Wilcock. 3rd and improving quickly in their new Snipe was Phil and Emma Hackney.
The 3rd Race saw a number of capsizes as the teams tired and were set a 4 lap race by OD Noble. This time the Snipes dominated with Hackney-Hackney finding his form and winning the race by 11 secs from the RS of Tinsley-Cowan (who recovered from a first beat pit stop !) whilst Paalman and Ditchburn got their best result of the day with a 3rd a further 4 seconds back. Nice and close !.

Overall it was good to see that no one fleet dominated. Tinsley-Cowan took the title in their RS200 followed by Hackney-Hackney in a Snipe with Tony Wilcock(all alone) in his Laser. Lets hope the rest of the season is this much fun.

Full handicap results here:

This entry was written on Sunday, March 9th, 2008 at 11:59 pm and is filed under Racing Results, Home, General.
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