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Grimwith Equaliser at Grimwith Sailing Club

by Neil Spink 12 Sep 2003 11:22 BST 7 September 2003

A flat calm greeted the 21 boats entered for the Grimwith Equaliser on Sunday 7th September. OOD Clive Harris postponed the first race on the hope of seeing some breeze, which duly arrived at 12pm from the South.

The first race was run on standard handicaps. With only 5 knots at most the RS200s of Keith Escritt and Andrew Hartley picked up the honours with Martin Barret's RS Vario in third, Phil Whitehead's Vortex in 4th and Ben and Natasha Lister's RS200 in 5th.

The Equaliser is an attempt to correct for different boat handicaps and different sailing abilities on a particular day. The second race is a pursuit with all abilities equalised - the quick sailors starting last and the slow first. To make sure no-one deliberately sails slowly both races count towards the final result! Theoretically all the boats should finish at the same point on the lake whatever their boat or ability.

With a race time of 90 minutes Tim Hiley set off in his Topper some 38 minutes ahead of James Larmuth in his Hurricane 5.9! The wind picked up to 10 knots - just enough to favour the faster boats. Tim managed to hold his lead until the final leg, being just pipped at the finish by Peter Craggs in his RS800 and Neil Spink in his Vortex with the Hurricane only yards behind.

With both races to count, consistency is key and Neil Spink beat Phil Whitehead by one point with youth sailors Ben and Natasha Lister sharing 3rd place with Dad Jonathan Lister.

Overall Results:

PosBoat TypeSail NoHelmCrewClubPts
1st Vortex 1048 Neil Spink  Grimwith 10 
2nd Vortex 1045 Phil Whitehead  Grimwith 11 
3= RS200 620 Ben Lister Natasha Lister Craven 14 
4= Vortex 1164 Jonathan Lister  Craven 14 
5th 29er 439 Andrew Foulds  Burwain 16 

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