Yachting World Dayboat Open at Bosham Sailing Club

 

The 12 boat fleet enjoyed champagne sailing conditions at this year's Bosham SC Open Meeting. The sun shone throughout, and the wind gods delivered a fabulous 10-12 knot breeze. The 10 home boats were joined by two visitors one of whom had travelled all the way from Avon SC.

The programme consisted of 4 races over the two days, with committee boat starts in the main part of Chichester Harbour. The courses took the fleet to all corners of this picturesque harbour. A unique feature of this event is the tradition of finishing the second race each day at Bosham Quay. This involves some interesting tactical choices particularly when the ebb tide sets in.

The racing this year was utterly dominate by the Bosham crew of Nigel and Isabelle Russell (DB614) who won all four races in a very convincing manner.

The Russells had blistering boat speed and terrific recovery powers. In race 3 when they were OCS at the start and gave the rest of the fleet a significant head start, they managed to work their way up through the fleet to win the race by a large margin!

The Open meeting event is run in conjunction with Bosham 's 3 Day Masters event. The DB sailors along with all the other competitors enjoyed a magnificent tea after the racing each day, with supper and live music on the terrace as the sun set on Saturday evening.

Overall Results:

Pos Sail No Boat Name Helm Crew Club R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts

1 614 Casspian Nigel Russell Isabelle Russell Bosham SC 1 1 1 1 3

2 597 Yellow Peril David MacFarlane Fiona Macfarlane /Nick Downey Bosham SC 6 2 4 3 9

3 664 TiGer Timothy Wilcock Gerry Wilcock/ Jane Weller Bosham SC 3 3 3 7 9

4 618 Vis Vitae Richard Lewis Laura Lewis Bosham SC 4 4 5 9 13

5 677 Genevieve Georgina Bullingham Simon Bullingham Avon SC 2 6 6 8 14

6 653 Mojo Alastair Seaton Jacqui Seaton Bosham SC 13 13 2 2 17

7 620 Teazer Ian Wheeler John Mckeand Bosham SC 5 8 8 4 17

8 615 Blanche John Fletcher Ali Garrett/ Jane Weller Bosham SC 8 7 10 5 20

9 629 Kerfuffle Nick Crang Julie Crang RYA 10 5 7 11 22

10 674 Liquid Luck Barry Colgate Bruce Garrett Bosham SC 11 9 9 6 24

11 654 Papa Tom Prower Jim Prower Bosham SC 7 10 13 10 27

12 624 Clementine Tim Reynolds Robert Long Bosham SC 9 11 13 13 33