Our four-part winter series has come to an end and this year's "Bartley Beast" has been decided after a stunning day of racing. The series attracted a total of 103 boats and 135 sailors from 19 different clubs.
Congratulations to our top placed sailors and to the whole fleet who didn't make it easy for them. This is the second year of the Beast format of two races a day for single and double handed fleets held over four Saturdays during the four winter months.
As this was the fourth and final event of the series, the overall results were decided with six of the eight races to count. This year it was the turn of the double handed fleet to determine the overall winner, Matt Biggs and Mark Fowler are now the proud owners of our new Beast trophy, have a look at the pictures [here], and they really did show us how it's done putting in an impressive set of results across all four events in the series. Julian Harms and George Bender placed second overall for the double handers in the Merlin Rocket and Chris Martin and Josh Oates took third in the Scorpion, an impressive achievement for a new pairing.
In the single handers Andy Davis finished the series with top three finishes to count securing the overall title in his OK closely challenged by Nick Craig throughout the series making for some very exciting viewing for the double handers over lunch. Les Druyf represented Bartley at the front of the fleet and was first Bartley boat, placing fourth overall.
The committee would like to thank everyone who made this event possible including all duty crews, and, Tilley's, the Bartley galley. We look forward to planning and delivering an even better Bartley Beast series next year!
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