Mirror Inland Championship at Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club

 

Chew Valley saw the famous red sails return to the lake hosting a two-day Mirror Inlands championship. An entry of 21 boats competed with competitors travelling from 8 different clubs across England & Wales.

As Storm Babet battered the North of England, Chew remained relatively peaceful as the high calibre field, a wash with elite sailors produced close and enjoyable sailing over the two days.

Ben & Kiara extended their honours to include the Inlands championship with Chris & Edward Grube runners up and Toby & Molly in third. Top Chew boat and Lady helm went to Rachel Grayson with Harry Smalley in 4th and Geoff Carveth picked up the Over 50 helm trophy finishing 5th with son Zac. Top wooden Boat fell to Ian & Ted in 7th. Lucy & Rosy Searle landed the Race Committee's Anchor trophy for the happiest boat completing all races with the best smiles and Traveller awards were also made to Tim & Molly Hall from Port Dinorwic and Justin & Felix Denny from Arnside.

Chew Commodore Andy Jones presented the silverware to the fleet with trophies also awarded for the Race winners of R1, R4 & R6. Ben paid tribute to Chew for hosting the event and look forward to a regular notch in the Mirror Calendar going forward.

Overall Results:

Pos Sail No Helm Crew Club R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Pts

1st 70987 ‑ Elsa Ben McGrane Keira McGrane Netley 1 1 3 1 ‑5 1 7

2nd 71039 ‑ The Black Pearl Chris Grube Edward Thompson Grube Netley 3 3 4 ‑6 1 5 16

3rd 70922 ‑ Wave Catcher Too Toby Wincer Molly Wincer HISC & Netley ‑8 2 1 4 8 3 18

4th 70964 ‑ Primary Cru Rachel Grayson Harry Smalley Chew Valley Lake 6 5 ‑13 5 2 4 22

5th 70556 ‑ Stroma II Geoff Carveth Zac Carveth Hayling island 10 ‑13 2 2 3 6 23

6th 71042(?) sailing as 70713 (white hull) Matthew McGovern Lewis McGovern SSSC 4 4 ‑12 7 6 7 28

7th 54453 ‑ dontlego Ian Dobson Ted Dobson Hayling island 9 6 9 3 4 ‑10 31

8th 71014 ‑ Bamm‑Bamm Adam Broughton Arabella Broughton Chew Valley Lake 7 9 10 8 (OCS) 2 36

9th 70832 ‑ Revenge of the Smurfs Heather Ross Henry Ross Netley 5 ‑14 7 10 7 11 40

10th 70916 ‑ MoreJosh Richard Searle Rupert Searle Itchenor ‑16 8 8 12 13 9 50

11th 70852 ‑ Blue John Smalley Peter Smalley Chew Valley Lake 13 7 (DNF) 9 10 12 51

12th 70587 ‑ Hummingbird Leighton King Penny King Netley 12 15 6 11 9 (DNC) 53