With 2023 being both the seventieth anniversary of the Osprey Class and the year of another Coronation the time was right for another Osprey RTI race.
Thus a fleet of 15 Ospreys gathered at Lymington Town Sailing Club on Friday 22nd September for the safety briefing and ready for a very early start the following day.
Matt & Phil finished after 8 hours and 48 minutes having turned a six minute deficit at Bembridge into an eleven minute lead over Oscar & Nick who themselves had a seven minute lead over the bulk of the fleet. All fifteen boats had finished after 9 hours and 25 minutes remarkably close after 60 miles of racing in a variety of conditions.
The Osprey Class would like to thank:
Lymington Town Sailing Club for hosting us and for the excellent dinner on Saturday evening.
Nigel Walbank and his team on board the mother ship acting as Race Officer.
The RIB crews who kept an eye on us all the way round.
All those who helped to organise the event.
Sailracer for supplying the trackers and the live tracking (nearly 3k live views with lots of people following the race).
Ian Proctor for designing and Richard & Mark Hartley for building the fantastic Osprey dinghy.
Overall Results:
Position Sail No Helm Crew Club Elapsed
1 1352 Matt Rainback Phil Angrave Poole YC 08:48:08
2 1348 Oscar Chess Nick Daily‑Hunt Tata Steel SC 08:59:19
3 1295 Mark Reynall Chris Cheetham Poole YC 09:07:38
4 1234 Terry Curtis Peter Greig Weymouth SC 09:08:52
5 1349 Rob Shaw Ian Little Kielder SC 09:09:08
6 1322 Ben Townsend Ed Richardson Emsworth SC 09:10:20
7 1382 Roger Blake Jamie Blake Great Moor SC 09:10:48
8 1373 Richard Marshall Arthur Butler Poole YC 09:11:06
9 1360 David Downs Adam Southern Tata Steel SC 09:11:26
10 1317 Simon Townsend Jack Townsend Emsworth SC 09:13:38
11 1291 Alex Willis Nick Willis Hayling Island SC 09:14:46
12 1292 Rob Heather Jonathan Osgood Teignmouth SC 09:15:50
13 1363 Rob Burdekin Alistair Raynard Blithfield SC 09:16:04
14 1183 Ken Brown Robin Toos Hobson Isle of Sheppey SC 09:19:30
includes 2% penalty (SI 14.1)
15 1316 Keith McDonald Andy Britain Smalltown SC 09:24:54
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