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Tues 10 April
Wallace Trophy 2007..results
As spring sailing goes, this was Bloooming Marvellous!! The most fabulous Easter weekend in the best harbour in the world! Light to medium breezes, clear blue skies, all 6 races completed and top racing through the whole fleet. 14 boats out on Saturday and 20 boats made an appearance over the whole weekend with four (and nearly five) different winners in 6 races, and 10 different boats in the top 3 spots...
And the winner is...(subject to confirmation from our scorer) and Wallace Trophy champion for 2007 is....Martyn Jones with wifty Clare and Clare Senior with two 1sts, a 2nd and a 3rd. Big round of applause...
Friday Race 1: saw a small fleet of 3 take on the fickle breeze with Ronnie sneaking home just in front of George Yeoman with almost the last puff of the day..at least that's how it felt! Steve and Olivier Davies taking a determined 3rd.
Saturday, A fantastic turnout of 14 boats. It started windless, but enough breeze appeared down Itchenor reach to have two club line starts up to Wear and back.
Race 2: Hugo and Olwen Fisher hooked onto an early puff and disappeared out in front only for Prof to use up most of his grey matter and get the win by the smallest of margins right on the line.
Race 3: Martyn Jones got into top gear and secured his first win with Clare Senior followed by Chris & Helen. Most notable achievement going to new team Clive Mann with son Alexander in their second race ever in "...and all That" finishing 5th!
Huge thanks to Chris& Clare Blevins in accommodating us on the unscheduled club line start.
Sunday: Looked more promising and turned out to be the best day of the weekend. More sun and a steady F2-3, 11 boats out and two committee boat starts.
Race 4: David Patient sprang out of the blocks in his first race of the season to get a 2nd with Clare Senior on board with Martyn & Clare getting his second win. Young Jack Yeoman (14) in his first 200 outing was looking comfortably fast until a pack of boats all descended at different angles to round Itchenor and nabbed his water....steady on there chaps.
Race 5 was Andy and Sarah Fitz's after a poor race 4, they stretched away up the first beat never to be seen again.
Monday: A good long race of a couple of laps between Wear and Ellanore for the 10 boats. Short tacking up against the tide with duels taking place all the way down the fleet but it was Phil and Lucy Ford in 223 with their afterburners on, blowing the whole fleet away up the first beat. It's not often we see "Still No Idea" being left for dust. Very impressive! Unfortunately a lack of downwind speed was their undoing and Andy and Sarah slipped into the lead, then kept ahead of the snapping "Ronnie" and "Impulse" up the second beat, going onto win by a minute from 2nd place "Ronnie". Good to see Harry and Prue out for the first time in their new old boat as they posted a 4th a whisker away from Phil and Lucy.
Next big day is training day on the 28th with Ian Pickard, 200 dinner at the club that evening and Chi Harbour Series on the Sunday hosted by Bosham.
Richard Neall