Streaker End of Season Championship at Banbury Sailing Club

 Streakers from all corners of the UK including the Scottish Borders, Pembrokeshire, Suffolk and Dorset congregated at Banbury Sailing Club on 29 October for their End of Season Championships. The day's winner would be taking home the coveted Freddy Bear Trophy! This was also to be the deciding event for the Midland Series, the North Sails Southern Paddle and the Rooster Super Series.

After close racing  Howard Frear finished the event in fourth overall, allowing Dave Borrett to take third and Neil Firth second. Veronica Falat finished with two bullets and was therefore comfortably End of Season Champion and winner of the Freddy Bear Trophy!

Veronica's two race wins also secured her the North Sails Southern Paddle trophy, ahead of Neil with Colin Staite in third. She is also the winner of the Rooster Super Series, which counts sailors' best three events from the six major Streaker events of the season. Congratulations all round to Veronica! Runners up in the Super Series were Neil then Dave. Neil took home the newly created Streaker Midland Series trophy, the "Balti Bowl", with runner up Matthew Whitfield (Tamworth SC) and Colin in third.

Thank you to Banbury Sailing Club and the willing and friendly volunteer duty team, including cooks and bakers, for a well-run and thoroughly enjoyable event. Complimentary tea and home-made cakes were especially welcome at the prize-giving, which also included prize draws for new sails from Class sponsors, North Sails and P&B.

Overall Results:

Pos Sail No Boat Name Helm Club R1 R2 R3 Pts

1 1972 Pickle Veronica Falat Waveney & Oulton Broad YC (3) 1 1 2

2 1977 White Satin Neil Firth Banbury SC 2 (4) 3 5

3 1864 Dave Borrett Beaver SC 1 (5) 5 6

4 2130 Jessica Howard Frear Sutton Bingham SC (5) 2 4 6

5 1975 James Dawes Redditch SC (6) 6 2 8

6 1769 Colin Staite Bartley SC 4 (11) 6 10

7 2112 Mini the Minx Katie Masterson St Mary's Loch SC (9) 3 8 11

8 2100 Dabchick Jonathan Blankley Beccles ASC 8 7 (12) 15

9 2135 Renegade Mark Langston Beccles Amateur SC 7 8 (DNF) 15

10 1901 Ecto‑1 Matthew Whitfield Tamworth SC (10) 10 7 17

11 2132 Chris Smith Island Barn Reservoir SC (12) 9 10 19

12 1555 Will Colles Dale YC 13 (14) 9 22

13 1869 Must try harder Ross Prytherch Dale YC 11 (12) 11 22

14 1870 Peter Angwin Bowmoor SC (14) 13 13 26