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Challenging conditions - but Bosham regatta attracts 100-plus
The 2010 Bosham Sailing Club regatta served up challenging conditions for the 113 entrants.
The Optimist fleet had great racing in windy conditions north of Bosham Quay.
Race one was about who could get the boat bailed out the quickest with everybody capsized or swamped at the gybe mark. Joe Stirrup won the first race.
Race two saw the wind drop, with Sophie Hempsell home first.
Stirrup was the overall winner but all did well to finish two races in such testing conditions.
The main fleets started from a committee boat in Chichester Channel south of Cobnor and their courses ranged south and west.
The untimely death of Harbourmaster John Davis meant flags were at half-mast and the Itchenor fleet of Sunbeam sailors, of which John was a part, decided, as a mark of respect, not to race.
With winds of up to 30 knots, the various classes were set audacious courses. Despite the strengthening breeze and the long courses, most made it back to the finish lines at Deep End and Bosham Quay well within two hours, with smiles or battered boats and bodies.
The Swallows, X One-Design, Fast Classic Dayboats, Lasers and Laser Radials and the International Finns displayed text-book starting techniques, all hitting the line at top-speed.
Coming home, the Finns had some crazy down-wind legs with a couple of seasoned helms taking a quick swim, while the Swallows and X One-Designs took the chance of bumping across Stocker Sands on the rising tide using their kites to induce extra heel and slide over the shallower water.
Teas were served at the clubhouse and prize-giving saw helms and crews crowd on to the terrace before visiting boats sailed back to their own clubs on the ebb tide.
Results: National Swallow: 1 Langhorne and two Fishers, 2 Paul Ward, Tom Ward and Paddy Boughton, 3 Peter Snell, Rustin and George Storton. X One-Design: 1 Steve Lawrence, A Jones and Clive Wallace, 2 Tom Tait, C Tait and R Smyth, 3 John Lowe, Tina Scott and M Greig. Fast Handicap: 1 Simon and Jackie Lytton, 2 Oli and Barney Woods. Laser Radial: 1 Tobias Hamer, 2 Henry Nelson, 3 Phil Weake. RS200:1 Edward and Isabel Fitzgerald, 2 Andy and Charlotte Fitzgerald, 3 Jason Merron and Andrea Barrass. International Finn: 1 John Tremlett, 2 Mike de Courcy, 3 George Cooper. Laser: 1 Simon Radford, 2 Karen Thomas, 3 Ken Harper. Wayfarer: 1 Chris and T Ames. Medium Handicap: 1 Henry Russell and Al Grant. Chichester Scow: 1 Martin Windebank, 2 Judy Roberts, 3 Stephen Smyth. Classic Day Boat Fast Division: 1 Brian Hoolahan and Tom Reid, 2 Mark and Shirley Stanton, 3 David and Fiona Macfarlane, 4 Chris Macrae and Jerry Bottrill. Classic Dayboat Slow Division: 1 Peter Shaw, 2 Andrew Francis. Topper: 1 Hugo Moss. Mirror: 1 William Moss and Ben Webb, 2 Ben Stirrup and Katie Hall. Optimist: 1 Joe Stirrup,
2 Sophie Hempsell, 3 Harry Hoolahan.
CHICHESTER
The Bass Cup was up for grabs at Chichester Yacht Club. It's an inter-club event between Dell Quay and Chichester YC and this year it was organised by CYC with donations to the RNLI.
An awful forecast put many sailors off and only a senior fleet was raced, with no juniors.
In a light, patchy wind, race officer Andrew Martin set a start in Chichester Basin trying to make the course as good as possible. Seven boats from Chichester were joined by three from Dell Quay.
In race one, Roger and Andy Clare got a great start in their RS 400 and were well ahead of the rest of the fleet, getting five minutes in front of the nearest boat – that of Malcolm & Jean Buchannan also in an RS400. Mark Harper (Finn), Ian Payne (Laser) and Patrick Johnson (Solo) were close behind.
The Dell Quay boats put up a fight with Chris West (Laser) seventh and Martin and Sarah Greenhalgh eighth in a Wayfarer.
Harper was evenutal runner-up with Payne third.
In race two, the Clares again shot off at the front, with Malcolm and Jean Buchannan close behind.
West was ahead of Payne in the Lasers so Harper in his Finn decided to cover West on the water. West was sailed out of the running by this tactic and retired.
The Solos had a good race with Roger Millett finishing ahead of Patrick Johnson. First were the Clares, second Millett, third Johnson.
Overall, the Clares were first, Johnson second and Payne third, with the best-placed DQ boat in seventh, that of Martin and Sarah Greenhalgh, meaning Chichester won the Bass Cup.
The latest pursuit race at Chichester saw Peter and Suzy Harrison in their Laser 2000 and Ian Payne have a close fight.
The Harrisons were the winners.
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Weather for Chichester
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 13 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 20 mph
Wind direction: West
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 13 C to 20 C
Wind Speed: 18 mph
Wind direction: South west
