Monohull Open at Great Yarmouth & Gorleston Sailing Club
by Dick Roe 29 Jun 2004 23:06 BST
26-27 June 2004
35 single handed & conventional spinnaker 2 handed dinghies attended GYGSC's Mono Hull open this weekend including a large fleet of Splash dinghies who also participated in some pre-world championship race training.
The fleet was split into 2 starts with the first for single handers sailing a shorter beat than the second for the 2 handed boats, both fleets then sailed a triangular course before returning to their respective windward mark & sailing a sausage leg. Results for the splash fleet & also the Javelin fleet were then extracted from each start. Saturdays 3 back to back races were sailed in a South Easterly 3-4 in a moderate chop, James Large was the consistent winner in the splash fleet but Gary fryer took all 3 bullets on handicap sailing his RS300.
In the 2 handers Mike Pickles/Richard Fisher were the overnight leaders in the Javelin fleet as well as on handicap. The wind had veered to the West & dropped to a shifty force 2-3 for Sundays 3 races, the previous days race winners continued to excel but Simon Barker won the second Splash fleet race & Sunday visitor Richard Fryer won the last single hander race on handicap.
Other Sunday only contestants Ben & Veronica Falat won the first 2 double hander races & finished second in the last sailing their Fireball. The results with 1 discard were as follows; Pickles/Fischer won both the Javelin & 2 hander handicap prize with Nick Faulkner/John Meachen runners up & Catrin Deihadt/Olav Schluter third, Gary Fryer won the single hander glassware with Splash coach Jon Emmett second & James Large third, James also winning the Splash class chocolates from Simon Barker & Tom Marfleet.
Single handers: (27)
1st RS300 (Gary Fryer)
2nd Splash (Jon Emmett)
3rd Splash (James Large)
Splash class: (17)
1st Splash (James Large)
2nd Splash (Simon Barker)
3rd Splash (Tom Marfleet)
Double handers: (8)
1st Javelin (Pickles/Fischer)
2nd Javelin (Faulkner/Meachen)
3rd Javelin (Deihadt/Schluter)
Javelin class: (6)
1st Javelin (Pickles/Fischer)
2nd Javelin (Faulkner/Meachen)
3rd Javelin (Deihadt/Schluter)