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Bart's Bash at Rotherham Sailing Club

by Chris Cooper 22 Sep 2015 23:12 BST 20 September 2015
Bart's Bash at Rotherham © Garry Chambers

Our Bart's Bash Team is ready to go, the course has been set and measured, the wind speed checked and boats rigged. A 4.9 knot, south westerly, gentle breeze, a cloudy sky with a glimmer of blue, a heron watching on, and young grebes feeding sets the scene at our picturesque reservoir.

The team, an eclectic mixture of sailors, young, older, experienced and novices in a variety of boats start launching their boats.

Chris Cooper in his Phantom gets a cracking start, pushing several boats to windward of him over the line, including 2 of his main competitors, Denis and Greg, who after an unfortunate start have a lot of catching up to do.

During the confusion on the start line our new members Andy and his daughter Beth in their Lark steamed through and were 2nd to the windward mark causing the more experienced sailors to desperately try to speed up. Another of our new members Richard sailing a Laser for only the second time, did an impressive dry capsize right in front of the OD box.

The race between our Laser Radial helms, Abi and Jenni, (which is usually close), saw Abi way ahead at the end of the first lap, but Jenni was chasing hard and gradually caught up pipping Abi at the very end on the last lap.

Chris led from the front and continued to steam ahead in his Phantom eventually lapping everyone. Was it a fore gone conclusion to who was winning? Greg, sailing his Firefly singlehanded, and Denis in his Streaker were gradually working their way back up the fleet, Greg eventually sharing first place with Chris on corrected time with Denis collecting the bronze.

Thanks to the ODs Garry Chambers and Jane Morton. A fun day and £65 raised for The Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation.

Overall Results:

PosClassSail NoHelmCrewPYElapsedLapsPoints
1Phantom1173Chris Cooper 100857.1681.5
1Firefly SH3673Greg Owers 116057.471.5
3Streaker1488Denis Webster 113858.3873
4Laser Radial118156Jenni Parsons 113560.3574
5Laser Radial162837Abi Cooper 113560.5775
6Enterprise22934Helen GrayClaire Bailey113958.1966
7Graduate2756Keith BaileyLyndsey Stanton113659.3567
8Laser102618Billy Rushforth 10915968
9Streaker1545Janet Bell 113861.5569
10Lark NS2312Paul SteeleDave Shaw108162.33610
11Lark NS2449Andy StantonBeth Stanton108163.3611
12Laser Radial154686Richard 113563.36512

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