This year’s Gill Flying Fifteen Open meeting at Grafham Water Sailing Club also served as event two of the 2023 Southern Travellers Series.
It was planned as a two-day event (May 13-14). In the end, the weather gods gave us a great day’s racing on the Saturday and a flat calm on the Sunday.
Fifteen fifteens entered, with some sailors having only just returned from the World Championships in Freemantle - good effort Ian Cadwallader, Bill Chard and Josh Preater.
PRO Peter Curtis ran an extra (fourth) race on the Saturday which turned out to be an excellent decision.
All four races were windward leeward courses, which made for close, tactical racing in the average 8-10 knots NNE that we got for the day.
Well done to Ben and Richard winning the event and taking home the Grafham trophy for the Flying 15 Open – a lovely half hull model of a Flying 15 – don’t forget to bring it back next year guys!
After Round 2 of the Southern Travellers, Jeremy Valentine and Andrew Telford from Datchet Water Sailing are leading the series overall.
Huge thanks to the PRO Peter Curtis and the whole team at Grafham who made this such a successful and enjoyable event, with a special mention for Coxswain Andy Taylor for getting all the Fifteens launched and recovered so efficiently.
We do hope to welcome even more 15ers back to Grafham next year. The event was sponsored by Gill who supplied some excellent prizes.
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