Leigh & Lowton SC kicked off their winter programme with their traditional Guy Fawkes Pursuit, this year on Guy Fawkes night itself, so there was Mulled Wine, Parkin Cake and Treacle Toffee available by a roaring fire after prize-giving. Over 50 competitors took part in this traditional start to the winter series, with the Revett Series running up to Xmas and New Years Day Pursuit and Icicle Series still to come over the winter.
The wind gave OOD Howard Green and his team some headaches as the predicted Westerly failed to materialise in time for the first start, and they had to make do with a fickle shifting SSW breeze for setting the course to allow the first juniors to get away.
The wind continued to challenge the competitors' patience at times, but early on the Graduates and Wayfarer all looked strong. The breeze filled in somewhat during the day before tailing off at the end of the race, meaning that the faster boats were unlikely to hunt down the early leaders.
An excellent race was sailed by Fresh and Brynster (Toddbrook) in their Graduate to take the gun at the end with a significant lead, while Chris and Chloe Parker (Bassenthwaite) held off the challenge of local Wayfarer Louise and Nigel. It's a good few years since we've had a Graduate win this event so it was great to see them back in strength.
It's always a long cold race for the juniors, but the persistence of Jasmine Perry paid off as she took away the Junior Trophy for the event, a great result after nearly 3 hours of sailing in her Tera.
For the LLSC Winter Series please enter online at :-
webcollect.org.uk/llsc/event/winter-open-series-2023-24
Overall Results:
Pos Class PY Sail No Helm Crew Club R1 Pts
1st Graduate 1120 3020 Fresh Abendstern Brynster Abendstern Toddbrook 1 1
2nd Graduate 1120 2839 Chris Parker Chloe Parker Bassenthwaite 2 2
3rd Wayfarer 1105 10747 Louise Mckeand Nigel Hall LLSC 3 3
4th Albacore 1037 8254 Tim Coleman Emma Coleman LLSC 4 4
5th Laser 1101 206940 Steve Blackburn LLSC 5 5
6th Devoti D‑one 948 409 Martin Spencer LLSC 6 6
7th Phantom 1002 1434 Martin Knott LLSC 7 7
8th Laser 1101 180672 Bill Busby LLSC 8 8
9th RS 200 1046 1625 Gareth Williams Jen Williams LLSC 9 9
10th Streaker 1128 1953 Alastair Norris LLSC 10 10
11th RS 400 940 1347 Chris Massey Andy Mckee Hollingworth 11 11
12th Graduate 1120 2873 Derrin Scott Ruby Barber Combs 12 12
13th Solo 1142 4985 Kim Cant LLSC 13 13
14th RS 200 1046 891 Dan McLean Ava McLean LLSC 14 14
15th Solo 1142 5350 Chris Helsby LLSC 15 15
16th Solo 1142 5120 Andrew Roberts LLSC 16 16
17th Devoti D‑one 948 105 Tom Welz LLSC 17 17
18th RS Aero 7 1063 2324 Mike Baldwin LLSC 18 18
19th Wayfarer 1105 10049 Fred Duran Crew LLSC 19 19
20th Enterprise 1126 21315 Stuart Trunkfield Katie Trunkfield Scyc 20 20
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