420 End of Seasons 2021 at Grafham Water Sailing Club

 What a great event our 2021 End of Seasons was! Hosted by the friendly Grafham Water Sailing Club, the wind was full of the usual shifty, tactics at the ready, lake sailing and we boasted a fleet of 39 boats.

Saturday was a light south westerly breeze averaging at 10kts. It was definitely a get in the pressure sort of day. We had 4 races and 4 different race winners including Ella Lance & Will Martin who hit the top 5 every time and were overnight leaders from Megan Farrer & Ellie Rush who picked up a 1st and a 2nd and Ollie Meadowcroft & Oscar Cawthorne who had a consistent day with a win and three top 7 results. George Creasey & David Bromilow won the final race of the day. The most spectacular performance of the day came from Ellie Creighton & Bee Greenfield who were in the hunt all day and found themselves in 7th place overnight.

Sunday was much breezier and very, very cold! And with a northerly wind averaging up to 15-20kts, I'm pretty sure everyone was wearing a woolly hat of some sort! In the windy conditions Ollie & Oscar dominated the first two races on day 2 getting round the course with a decent advantage on the fleet, but managed to only record a BFD and a 1st, whilst Ella & Will took control of the leader board recording a 1st and a 3rd.

Overall Results:

Pos Bow No Sail No Helm Crew Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Pts

1st 12 56954 Ella Lance Will Martin Open 2 2 1 ‑4 1 3 2 4 15

2nd 42 56108 Alice Davis Oliver Rayner Open ‑8 4 6 3 5 2 1 5 26

3rd 9 54852 Megan Farrer Ellie Rush Female 5 1 2 ‑11 6 7 4 7 32

4th 38 55244 Henry Heathcote Hector Bennett Open 4 3 11 ‑12 10 6 3 2 39

5th 17 55854 Joe Warwicker Hugo Valentine U17 Open ‑12 9 5 9 3 4 7 3 40

6th 36 54480 Nick Evans Joey Taylor Open 11 8 ‑14 10 2 8 5 1 45

7th 62 54058 George Creasy David Bromilow U17 Open 13 6 8 1 7 5 ‑17 8 48

8th 45 55242 Harry George Ralph Cawthorne U17 Open ‑17 12 4 8 11 9 9 6 59

9th 10 54483 Millie Irish Clara Jones Female ‑18 11 15 6 4 11 8 11 66

10th 39 55942 Mathias Potter Ellie Thomas Open 9 5 13 2 12 (DNF)