It's eleven years since Peter Gray won the overall title in a Scorpion. This year the Staunton Harold sailor wins the Seldén SailJuice Winter Series sailing an Osprey with Geoff Edwards.
Peter Gray & Geoff Edwards (Staunton Harold SC) have become overall winners of this season's Seldén SailJuice Winter Series, but only by the skin of their teeth. It was a close-run thing against Ben Flower (Paington SC) who raced his Laser/ ILCA 7 to a healthy lead in the early stages of the nine-event series but couldn't defend his lead in the later events due to Olympic campaigning duties for Canada.
Gray & Edwards needed a top six at the final event, last weekend's Oxford Blue, if they were to beat Flower overall. A fifth against a fleet of 85 at Farmoor Reservoir was just good enough to take out overall victory, for which the Osprey team will receive the trophy this weekend at the RYA Dinghy & Watersports Show at Farnborough. It was the closest ever finish in the 14-year history of the series.
Overall Series Top Ten:
Pos Class Helm Crew Club Dash Flyer Breezer Monkey GGP BM Gallop Tiger Oxford Pts
1 Osprey Peter GRAY Geoff EDWARDS STAUNTON HAROLD 4.84 5.77 2.44 10.31 6.58 19.63
2 Laser (ILCA 7) Ben FLOWER PAIGNTON 1.92 6.45 6.82 7 22.19
3 RS Aero 7 Joe SCURRAH CARSINGTON 6.45 24.24 4.88 11.34 7.89 30.56
4 RS400 Ollie GROVES Martin PENTY BEAVER 33 13.64 15 4.12 10.53 31.32
5 Laser (ILCA 7) Jamie BLAKE GREAT MOOR 11.54 19.35 99 21 293 25.77 34.21 60.98
6 RS200 Ben WHALEY Lorna GLEN PARKSTONE 25.81 22 39 13.16 646
7 RS Vareo Luke FISHER EMBERTON PARK 12.9 15.91 16.13 21.65 82.89 66.59
8 Enterprise Ann JACKSON Nick SCUTT BURGHFIELD 15.38 293 6.45 42.11 92.97
9 Osprey Roger BLAKE Jonathan OSGOOD GREAT MOOR 41.94 38.46 35.48 34.15 24 22.58 18.56 60.53 99.28
10 RS Aero 6 Sam METTAM PAPERCOURT 22.58 41.94 18.18 18 697 100.7
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