Rutland Sailing club Cat Open was host to Dart 18 GP3, 15 Dart 18's entered and would share the event with 6 other classes and 70 boats in total. A beautiful weekend was forecast and that is exactly what we got, with 12knots of breeze with gusts up to 20knots and bright sunshine for both days.
Two courses were set to cater for the 7 classes, but with the faster classes windward mark rather close to the slower class finish line, some chaos was expected but fortunately no inter class collisions occurred, although plenty of shouting!
Race 6 was the final race and plenty to play for with several boats on similar points, the race positions changed several times as the shifts took their toll, but Lloyd & Trafford came through again to win, with Team Exon close behind in 2nd, with Mick & Freddie Singleton in 3rd.
Overall Results:
1st David Lloyd and Jojo Trafford
2nd Mat & Jakob Exon
3rd Paul Hemsworth & Rachel Meddick
Handicap prizes went to:
1st Paul Hemsworth & Rachel Meddick
2nd Mick & Freddie Singleton
3rd Taylor Sage & Abbie Sloan
Full results can be found at www.dart18.com/2023-results
The prize-giving included a raffle for a new mainsail kindly donated by Hyde sails. This was an incentive to encourage early entries into the Dart18 World Championships at Bridlington this year. The incentive seems to have worked and all 137 entries were included in the draw, the lucky winner was Andrew Perks of Marconi SC.
The next event is Mumbles on June 10th & 11th, see www.dart18.com/events
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