The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, building on the success and legacy of the Endeavour Trophy for dinghy champions, hosted the inaugural Endeavour Trophy for Keelboats in Burnham on Crouch.
Nine teams, mostly with National champions on board, travelled from around the country for the event with representatives from Ajax, Cape 31, Dragon, Flying Fifteen, Illusion, J24, Sandhopper, Squib and Royal Corinthian One Design fleets. Run on the popular Keelboat League format of multiple, round robin fleet races, 23 short, sharp and frantic sprint races were completed over the two days using the club's fleet of matched Hunter 707s.
With the extremely close scores in, and 23 races out of a possible 27 completed, the race team worked out the final results and the positions were:
1st - Cape 31 - Johnny Cooper, Luke Deegan, David Chapman, and Joni Price
2nd - J24 - David Hale, David Coward, Matt Hitt, and Jackie Hale
3rd - Flying Fifteen - Andrew McKee, Rich Jones, Chris Massey, and Steve Graham
So the Endeavour Trophy was awarded to a very deserving team, with an invite to return next year to defend their title. The talk in the bar from other teams was that they were going away to work hard to try and win their respective class championships so they could return next year to try and wrestle it away from them !
The event management team at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club once again smoothly and efficiently delivered vibrant and challenging sailing event.
While you may not (yet) be a keelboat class champion yourself there is an opportunity in July (22nd / 23rd) to race in the British Keelboat League event run to the same format of quick-fire fleet races - britishkeelboatleague.co.uk with entries opening shortly at www.royalcorinthian.co.uk
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