Burton Sailing Club hosted two dozen dinghies and half a dozen windsurfers for the first event of our season. Part of a four club challenge this was round two and saw entries from our home club of Burton SC as well as Notts County SC, Staunton Harold SC and Ogston SC.
The format of the racing was a pursuit race followed by four Handicap races with joint course for the pursuit and separate courses for the boards and dinghies. The wind over the weekend was blowing a hooly and the safety crew and race officers had their work cut out.
The briefing saw a full club house as we all sheltered from the weather, remarkably there was a real desire to go out sailing ? and the OOD obliged.
The pursuit saw a good number of boats waiting their turn, Lasers, Solos, RS400's, D zero, Scorpions, GP14,s, Aeros, Flying Fifteens, Phantoms and Fireballs to name some of the classes. The first beat was the full length of the reservoir which was taxing for the crews in the conditions, the start sequence was smooth and all the classes got away. It looked to be set for a wild time with every boat planing on the long downwind leg, (the benefit of using the full length of the res)
Then it happened, the wind built drastically, we had half meter waves and whitecaps, and boats started to tumble on every leg. We had two boats being recovered off the dam wall, the crews later reporting that even with full power astern they couldn't gain ground against the wind, one rib was so swamped the OOD feared for the crew, a jaffa was attending a boat on the beach, and the ferry boat was pressed into service just to try and aid people. With four boats fully engaged, seven dinghies over and a Phantom tied to the back of the committee boat and no sign of the wind abating the inevitable decision was made to can the race. The abandon was raised at 55 mins into the 80 min pursuit, no one complained!
Special mention must be made to the Burton Sailing Club Race Organisation, who encountered some of the most difficult conditions seen at BSC, with the on the water teams on both days being pummelled by the weather and our shore teams dealing with variously sodden sailors, unplanned lunches, power cuts and fantastically a BBQ on the 13th Feb filled with Pasties, Soup and Burgers! Now that is called thinking outside the box.
Overall Results:
Pos Class Sail No Helm Crew Club PY R2 R3 R4 R5 Pts
Dinghy Fleet
1st Scorpion 2040 Andy McKee Staunton Harold SC 1041 3 1 1 5
2nd Fireball 14836 Kevin Hope Andrew Stewart Notts County SC 952 2 1 2 3 5
3rd Flying Fifteen 3949 Andrew George Matt Pallett Burton SC 1021 1 DNF 3 2 6
4th GP14 14072 Darrell Sleep Charles Saunders Staunton Harold SC 1130 4 4 5 13
5th ILCA 6 149743 Mike Pain Burton SC 1147 5 6 6 4 15
6th ILCA 7 197774 Carl Avery Burton SC 1100 7 8 5 20
7th LASER 4.7 177777 Mike Hampton Burton SC 1208 2 4 40
8th RS 400 960 Peter Gray Richard Pepperdine Staunton Harold SC 942 3 DNF 46
9th Solo 5856 Brian Fisher Notts County SC 1142 5 7 46
10th Scorpion 2002 Chloe Willars John Tailby Notts County SC 1041 DNF 74
Windsurf Fleet
1st Windsurf 6.7 Nieve Ball Burton SC 1077 3 1 4
2nd Windsurf 4.7 John Gay Burton SC 1182 2 2 4
3rd Windsurf 3.7 Amelia Gay Burton SC 1390 1 7
4th Windsurf Natalia Burton SC 1182 3 9
5th Windsurf Greg Rimmer Burton SC 1100 12
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