An enthusiastic fleet of RS800s coming from as far as Cornwall met at Rutland for Round One of the Rooster National Tour at the Rutland Skiff Open.
After Saturday's three races Ralph Singleton and Ian Mairs (1166) were comfortably in third place, with Bryan Ormond and Anna Prescott (820) in fourth. I haven't mentioned that we also had excellent coach Will Crocker on Saturday watching the racing and giving advice in between races.
Rutland put on a fantastic meal followed by an RS800-led beverage pong competition. Most of the RS800 sailors had badly estimated their abilities and one by one the teams lost to the other fleets. However Toby, Clement and Alex excelled to win the highly sought after "Social Conch" trophy at their first event.
With five knots forecast we were all smiles when the weather station was reporting double that on Sunday morning although the five degrees might have been correct though. Three great races followed. Fiona and Hugh secured second place overall and left the fleet to battle for the minor placings. This was decided in the last run of the last race which was a cracker. Bryan and Anna led the fleet off to the right with impressive pace - there's life in the old boats! Tom and Guy went left with Paul Jenkins and Dan Goodman (1188) and were well back. It was both awesome and a bit scary how Tom and Guy worked their way through the fleet to a comfortable win while Paul and Dan just pipped Ralph and Ian at the finish to move from fifth to third place overall, the racing was that tight.
It was a fantastic opening event for the RS800 Rooster National Tour. Thank you Rutland Sailing Club. And thank you to Rooster our National Tour sponsor. Coming up there's the France Skiff Open at Easter, training/racing at Hayling 15-16 April, Rooster National Tour event number two at Stokes Bay 29-30 April and the Europeans in Garda in only three months! See you on the water!
Overall Results:
Pos Helm Crew Sail No Club Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Pts
1 Tom Morris Guy Fillmore 1144 HISC Platinum 1 2 1 1 1 1 5
2 Fiona Hampshire Hugh Shone 1231 Swanage SC Platinum 2 1 2 2 3 DNC 10 10
3 Paul Jenkins Daniel Goodman 1188 Eastbourne/QMSC Platinum UFD 10 5 4 4 2 4 19
4 Ben Palmer David Kohler 1008 HISC Platinum UFD 10 6 3 3 4 3 19
5 Bryan Ormond Anna Prescott 820 QMSC Gold 4 4 6 5 5 2 20
6 Ralph Singleton Ian Mairs 1166 Restronguet SC Gold 3 3 5 6 6 5 22
7 Toby Freeland Clement Allan 862 QMSC Silver 5 8 8 UFD 10 7 7 35
8 Stephen Brown Philip Bairstow 1241 Derwent/Ullswater Silver UFD 10 7 7 7 8 6 35
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