Results / GUL RS RACING CIRCUIT MUMBLES YC - 14/07/2001
GUL RS600 Racing Circuit at Mumbles - July 14/15
A bright sunny and windless day greeted the competitors arriving for the
RS600 Gul Racing Circuit event in Mumbles over the weekend. A rather
disappointing turnout still did not detract from the quality of the fleet,
enabling some good practice for the Nationals in two weeks.
Race one started after a two hour wait for the wind to fill in and the
shifty 15 knot north-westerly breeze provided a welcome release from
drifting around Swansea Bay. Alex Davies led at the first mark, followed
by
Matt Humphrey's and Matt Chapman with Anthony York not helping his quest
to
win the circuit by capsizing onto the windward mark. The Race Officer's
choice of reaching angles was superb, with some flying reaches. Up the
next
beat mistakes by Davies and Humphrey's allowed Chapman through to the lead
and Mark Sempers through to third, at the finish the order was Chapman,
Humphrey's, Sempers, Davies with York recovering well to fifth. Race two
and
York took control, leading everyone round closely followed by Humphrey's
and
Chapman. These places remained to the finish, with Dave Nunn grabbing an
excellent fourth place. Race three and York was showing his form again,
leading to the finish, a close battle developed between Ian Rhodes,
Chapman
and Humphrey's for the remaining places. This saw Chapman pull away to
the
finish in second Humphrey's third and Rhodes fourth.
Sunday dawned bright with a light north westerly breeze. After an hour
wait
for the breeze to build to about 10 knots and settle to some kind of
direction, race four was started. The shifts were large, and Humphrey's
picked them well to lead York at the top mark with Davies third and a
close
chasing pack. Humphrey's and York managed to keep ahead despite the shifts
to the finish, with Sempers Rhodes and Nunn chasing. Race five and
possible
candidate for the Most Well Guessed Shift Award was Ian Rhodes. The second
beat was shifty with Humphrey's again leading comfortably from York.
Rhodes
from well down the fleet went hard left being lifted all the way, tacked
and
then lifted all the way into the mark to secure a half leg lead by the
bottom of the run, never to be caught, Humphrey's held off the challenge
of
York to the finish line setting up an interesting show down for the final
race between them. The final race and right paid, with Adrian White
leading
around the windward mark from Stephen Hermanson, Davies and Sempers. York
who had to beat Humphrey's and finish higher than fifth to win, was
fifth. A
coming together with Davies at the wing mark saw a capsize and allowed
Humphrey's through with York dropping to eighth. York recovered well and
overtook Humphrey's, with Mark Sempers taking the lead of the race. At the
finish Sempers led from York and Nunn with Humphrey's capsizing in a
rather
vigorous attempt at catching York to try and win the event.
York beating Humphrey's in the final race saw him take the event by a
point
with Chapman just holding on to third from Sempers. Dave Nunn was strong
in
fifth and Ian Rhodes recovered from disastrous first day to take sixth.
York
is now untouchable in the Gul RS600 Racing Circuit standings now, but can
he
carry forward the advantage to the Nationals at Mounts Bay in two weeks?
Behind York though there is now a real scrap with 2nd -6th only covered by
two points with the final Racing Circuit event at Thorpe Bay now
guaranteed
to be highly entertaining.
Alex Davies
Mumbles overall
1. Anthony York Northampton 9pts
2. Matt Humphrey's Portchester 10pts
3. Matthew Chapman Chew Valley 16pts
4. Mark Sempers Datchet 17pts
5. David Nunn Datchet 24pts
6. Ian Rhodes Northampton 27pts
GUL RS600 Racing Circuit
1. Anthony York 9pts
2. Brian Greensmith 23pts
3. Matt Humphrey's 23pts
4. David Nunn 25pts
5. Ian Rhodes 25pts
6. Mark Sempers 25pts
Mumbles Yacht Club |
RS Classes Open |
Final Results |
Pos | Fleet | Boat Name | Sail No | Crew | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Pts | Notes |
RS 300 Fleet | |||||||||||||
1st | RS 300 | � | 4 | Jerry Wales | Queen Mary | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | � | |
2nd | RS 300 | � | 443 | Matt Sargent | � | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | � | |
3rd | RS 300 | Rocket Science | 407 | Howell Davies | � | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 17 | � | |
4th | RS 300 | Winnie's Wish | 381 | Matt Thursfield | Chelmarsh SC | 4 | DNC | 3 | 3 | 3 | 19 | � | |
5th | RS 300 | � | 413 | Graham Cooper | B on A | DNC | DNC | DNF | DNS | 5 | 29 | � | |
RS 400 Fleet | |||||||||||||
1st | RS 400 | RSwipe | 1038 | Nick Craig / Richard Brown | Frensham Pond | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | � | |
2nd | RS 400 | Ronstan | 949 | Craig Burlton / Andrew Bonsey | Northampton | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | � | |
3rd | RS 400 | � | 896 | Chris Jennings / Ed Nicklin | Burghfield SC | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | � | |
4th | RS 400 | � | 873 | Roger Gilbert / James Stewart | Frensham Pond | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 20 | � | |
5th | RS 400 | The other half | 1090 | Phil Jackson / Gerard Baron | Parkstone YC | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 32 | � | |
6th | RS 400 | � | 958 | Jason Pyke / Ian Gregory | � | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 32 | � | |
7th | RS 400 | Gul | 1097 | Greg O'Brian / John Blundell | Sutton | 12 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 37 | � | |
8th | RS 400 | � | 641 | Hywel Roberts / Melissa Storey | QMSC | 12 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 44 | � | |
9th | RS 400 | The artist formerly known as the secreta | 802 | Pete Vincent / Pete Cruickshank | Bristol CYC | 7 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 48 | � | |
10th | RS 400 | � | 1100 | Tony Woods / Amanda Pierpoint | Leigh & Lowton | 9 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 48 | � | |
11th | RS 400 | Sheena is a bad crew | 735 | David Brown / Sheena Craig | IBRSC / RBYC | 11 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 49 | � | |
12th | RS 400 | Rule 26 Racing Snake | 946 | Charlie Duchesne / Dan Sanders | Royal Ocean Racing Club / Hamble River | 8 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 53 | � | |
13th | RS 400 | Proctor Winning Masts | 1077 | Robin Kenyon / Keith Bedborough | Yealm Yacht Club | 15 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 56 | � | |
14th | RS 400 | � | 592 | Malcolm Green / Martin Green | RYA | 14 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 59 | � | |
15th | RS 400 | Curb Crawler | 956 | Chris Hogan / Neil Hughston | Port Dinorwic | 10 | 5 | 14 | 10 | DNC | 61 | � | |
16th | RS 400 | Ready RS | 602 | Jeremy Stevens / Robin Row | Penzance SC | 14 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 71 | � | |
17th | RS 400 | � | 1058 | Barney Goswell / Louise Heal | � | 17 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 74 | � | |
18th | RS 400 | � | 1072 | David Giles / Jared Halligan | Weir Wood SC | 4 | 18 | 16 | DNC | DNC | 82 | � | |
19th | RS 400 | Welsh Saviour | 983 (946 Purple) | Hugh Botterell / Dan Bleasdale | RNSA | 19 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 85 | � | |
20th | RS 400 | � | 941 | Andy Williams / Lucy Marriott | Datchet /Branchester Staithe | 17 | 13 | DNC | 17 | DNF | 91 | � | |
21st | RS 400 | � | 412 | Adam John / Sharkey | Tewkesbury | 16 | 16 | 15 | DNC | DNC | 91 | � | |
RS 600 Fleet | |||||||||||||
1st | RS 600 | � | 876 | Anthony York | Northampton | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | � | |
2nd | RS 600 | � | 954 | Matt Humphreys | Portchester | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | � | |
3rd | RS 600 | � | 917 | Matthew Chapman | Chew Valley | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | � | |
4th | RS 600 | Skal | 610 | Mark Sempers | � | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 17 | � | |
5th | RS 600 | � | 826 | David Nunn | Datchet Water SC | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 24 | � | |
6th | RS 600 | Good Ship Venus | 808 | Ian Rhodes | Northampton | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 27 | � | |
7th | RS 600 | � | 676 | Alex Davies | Portchester | 4 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 32 | � | |
8th | RS 600 | � | 707 | Nicholas Mountford | � | 5 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 34 | � | |
9th | RS 600 | � | 792 | Adrian White | Mount Batten | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 38 | � | |
10th | RS 600 | � | 632 | Elaine Turner | Datchet Water SC | 8 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 43 | � | |
11th | RS 600 | Julie Mango | 875 | Steven Hermanson | Datchet Water SC | 11 | 10 | 10 | DSQ | DSQ | 55 | � | |
RS 700 Fleet | |||||||||||||
1st | RS 700 | Bigger Stonger Faster Harder | 712 | Gareth Morgan | Tenby SC | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 88 | |
2nd | RS 700 | � | 716 | Carl Vinny | Datchet Water SC | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 86 | |
3rd | RS 700 | � | 741 | Andrew White | Stokes Bay | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 99 | |
4th | RS 700 | � | 708 | Steve Stubbs | Tenby SC | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 84 | |
5th | RS 700 | Loopster | 707 | Paul Lewis | British Steel / Mumbles YC | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 84 | |
6th | RS 700 | � | 727 | Paul Bartlett | � | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 85 | |
7th | RS 700 | � | 744 | Neil Robinson | Hayling Island SC | 3 | DNC | 2 | 3 | DNC | 32 | 90 | |
8th | RS 700 | LDC Racingsailboats.co.uk | 704 | Alex Southon | � | 8 | 9 | 6 | DNC | DNC | 47 | 100 | |
9th | RS 700 | Flying Turtle | 709 | Anthony Rees | Mumbles YC | 8 | 8 | DNF | 8 | DNF | 48 | 81 | |
10th | RS 700 | Big Boy II | 721 | Neil Sanders | Cardiff Bay | 9 | 10 | 7 | DNC | DNC | 50 | 90 | |
11th | RS 700 | � | 725 | Chris Kirk | � | 10 | 7 | 9 | DNC | DNC | 50 | 82 |
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