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Results / Rope4Boats Inland Championships Chew Valley Lake SC - 11/11/2023

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RS100 Rope4Boats Inland Championship at Chew Valley Lake SC

11/12 November 2023

Herein starts the campaign to ban sailing club vidcams. Yes, they potentially encourage people to stay at home if the outlook is unfavourable. But far worse, this weekend at the Rope4Boats RSS100 Inlands at Chew Valley Lake SC they spoilt our endeavours at a wind-up.

For what seems like months, XCweather (other weather apps are available and can’t be any worse) has been predicting Michael Fish level hurricanes when what we actually received were driftathons. For Saturday of our Inlands, when it said 0mph, you can thereby rest assured sailing will not be on the menu.

Accordingly, Huw Powell decided to gather some unexpected brownie points and spend most of the day at home, travelling west in time to rig and join the (excellent) evening social.

In a lifetime first, Mostyn Evans was fastest out of the gate, Whatsapping Huw at midday to say “15 knots (aka Huw minimum) had unexpectedly arrived, the AP was down and we were off racing.”

But, but, but and again but, smartar$e Huw had been monitoring that blessed club vidcam, so was in absolutely no doubt we were joshing him. They’ve simply gotta go.

Second lesson from the event is that we need to change Notice of Race and SIs for two-day events such that, in the event of no sailing on day one, start time is brought forward and more than one race can be carried over to day two.

In this instance though, quite rightly, we observed two-minutes silence at 11am on Sunday, then off we went, into a seriously patchy, shifty but perfectly sailable breeze. After a day off, the fleet was now altogether too keen to get going, resulting in three UFD binnings and your correspondent Clive Eplett tacking out at the committee boat with 10secs to go, gifting pole-position to Huw.

Jaye Rickards looked like she was going to be first at the first mark though (helped perhaps by her OCS) but the final shift allowed Andy Jones to sneak in and steal Jaye’s glory. This was not an easy day to maintain, let alone build a lead, but Andy did so masterfully. Class chairman David Smart got very close after finding a pocket of nice pressure and perhaps might have got his nose in front if he’d not been laughing at your correspondent tipping it in whilst gybing onto the aforementioned gust. Frensham’s Ian Gregory worked his way past Dave with National Champ Nigel Wakefield sniddling his way to 4th.

Thereafter (ie I can’t remember the details) several of us had a go at leading in the following three races, but after his slow (by his standards) race-one, Nigel woke up and negotiated the bear-traps masterfully to win the next two with Ian getting a 2 and 3 and Clive 3 and 2. Smartie’s 3rd on the water in R3 went out of the window on the U-flag.

Going into the final race, this left things tight between Nigel and Ian for first and second and, distantly, Clive and Dave for third and fourth. This time, although pushed hard by Nigel, Ian led throughout, but Nigel’s second was enough to retain the Rope4Boats Inlands title by a point from Ian. Those two were in a class of their own. Clive held third from Dave, also by a point. Next up was Euro-cup holder Tom Halhead, returning after his traitorous defection to the RS400 fleet. It took him a race to remember that without a crew, he had to call the shots himself, thereafter he was Mr Consistent with three 4ths.

After some additional number crunching to determine the outcome of the 2023 RS100 Rooster National Tour, score-keeper Mark Harrison was most upset to learn that Clive Eplett had come out on top, with Nigel second (I fear that missing out on a 2023 clean-sweep will have annoyed him and he’ll be even faster next year) on countback to Matt Johnson, with Ian pipping Mark, also on countback.

Thanks to all our sponsors and hosts across the year, we’ve had some great sailing and, among other things, have a trip to Carnac to look forward to in 2024.

Clive Eplett

Unofficial RS100 Committee Member 

RS100 & RS700 Inlands 2023

Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club

 

RS100 Fleet

 
Rank Fleet Class Sail Number Helm Name Club R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Nett Notes
1st RS100 RS100 145 Nigel Wakefield Netley/Lymington Town (4.0) 1.0 1.0 2.0 8.0 4.0  
2nd RS100 RS100 259 Ian Gregory Frensham Pond 2.0 2.0 (3.0) 1.0 8.0 5.0  
3rd RS100 RS100 509 Clive Eplett Frensham Pond 5.0 3.0 2.0 (6.0) 16.0 10.0  
4th RS100 RS100 523 David Smart Chew Valley 3.0 5.0 (23.0 OCS) 3.0 34.0 11.0  
5th RS100 RS100 393 Tom Halhead Llandegfedd (10.0) 4.0 4.0 4.0 22.0 12.0  
6th RS100 RS100 505 Andrew Jones Chew Valley 1.0 7.0 8.0 (10.0) 26.0 16.0  
7th RS100 RS100 508 Huw Powell Red Wharf Bay / Netley 9.0 (10.0) 6.0 8.0 33.0 23.0  
8th RS100 RS100 130 Stephen Jones Chew Valley 7.0 12.0 (13.0) 5.0 37.0 24.0  
9th RS100 RS100 159 Tim Johnson Chew Valley (23.0 OCS) 11.0 5.0 9.0 48.0 25.0  
10th RS100 RS100 12 Jaye Rickards Chew Valley (23.0 OCS) 8.0 9.0 11.0 51.0 28.0  
11th RS100 RS100 314 Mike Green Pevensey Bay 6.0 (13.0) 11.0 12.0 42.0 29.0  
12th RS100 RS100 379 Mark Harrison Gurnard SC 8.0 9.0 (14.0) 13.0 44.0 30.0  
13th RS100 RS100 238 Gavin Thompson Chew Valley 13.0 15.0 7.0 (16.0) 51.0 35.0  
14th RS100 RS100 226 Simon Bennett Chew Valley (23.0 DNS) 23.0 DNS 10.0 7.0 63.0 40.0  
15th RS100 RS100 331 Nick Edmonds Chew Valley 15.0 (16.0) 12.0 15.0 58.0 42.0  
16th RS100 RS100 268 Bart Bridgen Netley SC (23.0 OCS) 6.0 16.0 23.0 OCS 68.0 45.0  
17th RS100 RS100 526 Mostyn Evans Mounts Bay 14.0 17.0 (18.5) 14.0 63.5 45.0  
18th RS100 RS100 208 Darrell Sleep Staunton Harold SC 12.0 (19.0) 17.0 18.0 66.0 47.0  
19th RS100 RS100 206 Jon Elmes Chew Valley 11.0 14.0 (23.0 OCS) 23.0 DNS 71.0 48.0  
20th RS100 RS100 174 Daniel Webber Chew Valley (23.0 DNS) 18.0 15.0 17.0 73.0 50.0  
21st RS100 RS100 218 Richard Wach Bristol Corinthian Yacht Club 16.0 (20.0) 18.5 19.0 73.5 53.5  
22nd RS100 RS100 458 Matthew Scott Chew Valley (23.0 DNS) 23.0 DNS 23.0 DNS 23.0 DNS 92.0 69.0  
 
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