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Grimwith Grapple 2004 at Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club

by Keith Escritt 10 Jun 2004 16:20 BST 5 June 2004
Richard Marsh & Heather Nocton win the Grimwith Grapple © Keith Escritt

Another great day at the Yorkshire Dales SC! While much of the country suffered very light winds, Grimwith reservoir again came up with the goods as the sun shone and the wind increased from a force 1 up to a Force 3 by the end of the day giving something for everyone.

In these conditions it is consistency that pays, and the RS400 sailed by Richard Marsh and Heather Nocton (Elton SC) won overall with a first a second and a fourth. Jonathan Lister (Yorkshire Dales) in a Vortex also won a race to come second overall. It was only Richard and Heathers narrow last race win that gave them victory over Lister.

The other race winners were Keith Escritt and Anne Saul (Yorkshire Dales) in an RS200 who were first of the slow Handicap fleet. Other good performances came from Rob Patterson from Ripon in his Phantom, taking second in the slow handicap and Ian Dobson / Andrew Tunnicliffe from Burwain who guided their 420 just pipping Tony Wild from Bolton in his Supernova into third in the slow fleet . Clive Harries was third of the fast handicappers with Andrew Foulds and Oliver Dewhirsts RS800 leading a bunch of fast handicappers before John Goodyears’ Streaker from YeadonSC who was fifth in the slow fleet.

The superb prizes courtesy of Mike Saul DS were gratefully received in the afternoon sun as many visitors made a booking to come back to YDSC for The Equaliser event on the 11th July. More details of that are on www.grimwith.org

Overall Results:

Pos Class Sail No Helm Crew Club PY R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts Notes
1st RS 400 559 Richard Marsh Heather Nocton Elton 952 2 4 1   3.0  
2nd Laser Vortex 1164 Jonathan Lister   YDSC 960 8 1 2   3.0  
3rd RS 200 876 Keith Escritt Anne Saul YDSC 1059 1 3 4   4.0  
4th Laser Vortex 1132 Clive Harries   YDSC 960 DNC 2 3   5.0  
5th phantom 1119 Rob J Patterson   Ripon 1048 3 7 5   8.0  
6th 420 50974 Ian Dobson Andrew Tunnicliffe Burwain 1087 4 9 7   11.0  
7th Supernova 517 tony wild Competitor 7 bolton sailing club 1063 5 11 9   14.0  
8th RS 800 1045 Andrew Foulds Oliver Dewhurst YDSC 822 11 8 6   14.0  
9th Contender GBR 652 Neil Ferguson   YDSC 994 6 10 8   14.0  
10th Laser Vortex V1031 Andrew Ratcliffe   YDSC 960 9 6 10   15.0  
11th 29er 397 Martin Smith Barbera Smiths Delph SC 924 7 13 11   18.0  
12th RS 700 757 Geoff Stubbs Competitor 8 YDSC 857 18 5 15   20.0  
13th Streaker 1450 John Goodyear Competitor 2 Yeadon 1162 10 17 12   22.0  
14th Laser 4000 4201 Erica Caswell Ian Caswell YDSC 908 12 16 13   25.0  
15th National 12 3245 Peter Slingsby Andrew Fielduss Yeadon 1093 13 19 14   27.0  
16th Laser Vortex 1117 Mike Collins Competitor 4 YDSC 960 19 12 16   28.0  
17th Laser 4000 4300 Steve Rickwood David Ingles YDSC 908 15 15 18   30.0  
18th Laser 150357 Geoff Marcoolyn Competitor 6 YDSC 1078 14 18 17   31.0  
19th Hobie 16 97038 Ian Craven Steve Wilson YDSC 802 20 14 19   33.0  
20th Laser 4000 4117 John Deighton Paul Caswell YDSC 908 16 21 20   36.0  
21st RS 800 982 David Brown Ceri YDSC 822 17 20 DNC   37.0  
22nd RS 800 1042 Peter Craggs Phil Nelson York Railway Inst 822 DNC DNC DNC   50.0  

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