Solo Open at Teign Corinthian Yacht Club

 Teign Corinthian Yacht Club were delighted to host the latest round of the Solo Western Series at Coombe Cellars on the river Teign on Saturday 20th August. Despite clashing with other local sailing events four visitors joined the home solo sailors to make a sizeable fleet of 21 boats with one young lady, Maddie Farmer, joining the fray.

Three races back to back around a classic triangular/sausage course ensued. With the breeze coming from the south west and generally swinging through 20 to 30 degrees it was challenging sailing for both the sailors and the Race officer on the committee boat.

With two wins and a second place, Paul Bartlett was the overall event winner, some 9 points ahead of Simon Jones and John Steels who were both tied on 13 points. Simon taking the runner up spot on count back. 

Back on shore the pasties, cake and the optional beer were well received by all after a great day's racing with some really slick work on the Committee boat from our Race Officer Sasha Karakusevic and Asst. Race Officer Mike Commander.

Finally, a huge thank you to all those who helped out on the day, both, on and off, the water.

Overall Results:

Pos Sail No Helm Club R1 R2 R3 Pts

1st 5964 Paul Bartlett TCYC 1 1 2 4

2nd 5462 Simon Jones TCYC 5 2 6 13

3rd 5926 John Steels Starcross YC 3 5 5 13

4th 5786 Simon Greenslade Starcross YC 6 7 1 14

5th 5902 Ian Bartlett South Cerney SC 8 3 4 15

6th 5893 Gary Molton TCYC 4 6 7 17

7th 4654 Malcolm Davies TCYC 7 8 8 23

8th 5323 Mark Philips TCYC 2 13 10 25

9th 5549 Peter Hearne TCYC 9 10 9 28

10th 5353 Chris Meredith Chew Valley SC OCS 4 3 29

11th 6035 John Ewbank TCYC 12 11 13 36

12th 3915 Liam McGrath TCYC 16 9 12 37

13th 4800 James Main TCYC 14 12 11 37

14th 4922 Ben Miles TCYC 13 15 14 42

15th 5422 Dave Northcott TCYC 10 16 18 44

16th 4964 Paul Farmer TCYC 11 14 20 45

17th 4350 Charlie Tolcher TCYC 15 17 16 48

18th 4402 Richard Bryant TCYC 18 18 15 51

19th 3389 Matt Damerell TCYC 17 DNF 17 55

20th 3286 Maddie Farmer TCYC 19 19 19 57

21st 3965 James Stevenson TCYC DNF DNC DNC 66