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2023 North West Senior Traveller Series Final at Elton Sailing Club

by Dave Woodhead 27 Sep 2023 17:16 BST 26 September 2023
2023 North West Senior Travellers 2023 final at Elton © Dave Woodhead

Elton Sailing Club hosted the final of the 2023 North West Senior Traveller Series on Tuesday 26th September. Now in its twelfth year this series is run at 7 different North West clubs for the over 50s and remains a popular series amongst retired folk and those that can take a day off work.

Thirty seven boats took part in one or more events in a variety of classes. Each event is treated as a one day open meeting and results also go forward to overall series winners and prizes. Full information about the series is available through a Facebook group and through the RYA North West Web Site. The host clubs are Leigh and Lowton, Burwain, Hollingworth, Bolton, Southport, Delph and Elton but sailors from any club may take part.

For the second consecutive year the winner of the series was Andy Flitcroft sailing a Supernova from Bolton Sailing Club, Second was his club mate Mark Platt sometimes in a Supernova and sometimes in a GP14 with different crews (we are flexible on boats sailed and crews maybe under 50). Third and fourth were two Solos from Elton sailed by Darren Nield and Dave Woodhead and fifth was a Miracle sailed by Dave Southworth and Michelle Raines from Leigh and Lowton.

Full results for the series are available on the Facebook group (North West Dinghy Sailors Senior Traveller Series).

There are also special prizes:

Top club - Bolton SC (scored from the top 3 boats in each club)
First double hander - Dave Southworth and Michell Raines
First Master - Mark Platt
First Grand Master - Dave Woodhead

We are already looking forward to 2024 when we hope to boost numbers as several 49 year olds have told me the will qualify next year!

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