RS200 Northern Tour at Delph Sailing Club
by Jon Ward 28 Apr 2017 11:18 BST
8 March 2017
The 2017 RS Sailing sponsored RS200 Northern tour kicked off at Delph SC on Saturday 8th April with a beautiful sunny day and light southerly winds greeting the 10 boats from 6 different clubs.
Five races were sailed throughout the day with Keith Escritt & Andrea Clough winning the first race from Martin & Sian Joesbury with Ollie Groves & Esther Parkhurst taking third.
The second race was sailed back to back and this time Martin & Sian won out with Ruddell and Vicky Page making it a Budworth 1-2. Ollie & Esther came in third.
After lunch three races were sailed back to back. The top two were a repeat of the second race with Martin & Sian again winning from with Martin & Barbara Smith finishing third.
The fourth race saw Keith & Andrea bounce back after a couple of poorer results to take the win from Ollie & Esther with Marin & Sian finishing third.
This left a straight battle between Martin & Sian and Keith & Andrea for overall honours with Keith & Andrea needing to win with Martin & Sian no better than third if they were to win the event.
At the first mark, Keith & Andrea were in the lead, but Martin & Sian were in second. The positions remained the same throughout the race with Keith &Andrea taking the win from Martin & Sian with Martin & Barbara in third.
Martin & Sian counted two first and two seconds to take the event win from Keith & Andrea who had three race wins, but had to count a fourth. Ollie and Esther proved the best of the rest to take third place.
Additional sponsorship was provided by Ian Turnbull in the form of £10 Rope4Boats vouchers which were raffled off to all entrants. The raffle winners were James Ricketts from Ripon SC and A Barton from Delph SC. Great to see the vouchers being spread amongst the fleet.
Drone footage to Tim Squires:
Overall Results:
| Pos | Sail No | Helm | Crew | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Pts |
|---|
| 1 | 1606 | Martin Joesbury | Sian Joesbury | Budworth | 2 | 1 | 1 | ‑3 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 968 | Keith Escritt | Andrea Clough | Yorkshire Dales | 1 | 4 | ‑6 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | 1637 | Ollie Groves | Esther Parkhurst | Beaver | 3 | 3 | ‑8 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | 1419 | Russell Page | Vicky Page | Budworth | ‑8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | 1314 | Jon Chapman | Wendy Martin | Budworth | 4 | ‑7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | 1068 | Martin Smith | Barbara Smith | Delph | ‑9 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 20 |
| 7 | 1560 | Jon Ward | Heather Ward | Budworth | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | ‑9 | 22 |
| 8 | 1118 | Faye Caswell | T Squires | Yorkshire Dales | 7 | 8 | ‑9 | 4 | 8 | 27 |
| 9 | 1420 | James Ricketts | S Ricketts | Ripon | 6 | ‑9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 29 |
| 10 | 724 | A Barton | N Gillham | Delph | ‑10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 40 |