Warm sunny weather welcomed the Folkboat Association Nationals 2024, this year being held at Royal Lymington Yacht Club as a stand-alone event with five races over the two days featuring 16 boats, each with 3 crew from the sailing clubs across the Solent.
Folkboat 'Gybe N' GBR 669 (Simon Evans / Cy Grisley / Richard Clark) dominated the event with 2 wins, 2 seconds and then spent the last race match racing with Folkboat Madelaine GBR 707 (Ed Donald) to ensure overall victory and push Madeleine into third place.
Second place was taken by the Walters family on Cidron Too GBR 669 with consistent finishes in the top 4 across the races. The Otter GBR 720 (Claire Locke / Rich Bell) took 4th place, closely followed by Eala GBR754 (Alistair Maclean). Also impressive was Tarka GBR 690, recently purchased by James Young who took 5th overall.
So the Solent delivered variable winds and the tides and the Folkboats proved again what a great fleet it is to sail with, as despite a MOB (quickly retrieved), a broken mast, broken forestay and a few other minor breakages on the boats, everyone enjoyed the weekend racing and socials.
With the Taittinger Regatta and Folkboat week at Royal Solent coming up alongside the regular Thursdays and Saturdays at Royal Lymington Folkboats remain one of the busiest fleets in the Solent.
Overall Results :-
Pos Boat Name Sail No Entered By Club R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Pts
1st GYBE 'N' 669 Cy Grisley RLymYC 1 1 2 2 ‑11 6
2nd CIDRON TOO 612 Walter James RLymYC 2 ‑5 4 4 2 12
3rd MADELAINE 707 Ed Donald RLymYC ‑9 3 1 1 8 13
4th THE OTTER 720 Claire Locke RLymYC 5 2 (DNS) 7 4 18
5th EALA 754 Alasdair Maclean RLymYC 4 7 7 ‑11 1 19
6th TARKA 690 Tim Carnegie RLymYC ‑10 8 5 5 5 23
7th VALHALLA 624 Kim Morley RLymYC 7 6 6 ‑12 6 25
8th SVANE 702 Harry Hall RSolYC 3 (RET) DNC 3 3 26
9th NJORD 692 Patrick Farell RSolYC 8 4 (DNS) 9 9 30
10th WOMBAT 765 Jonathan Proctor RLymYC ‑12 10 3 10 12 35
11th RIOT 695 Chris Fox RLymYC 6 9 (RET) 13 7 35
12th FRITHA 743 Nigel Campling RLymYC 14 12 (DNS) 6 10 42
13th ROSAIRE 752 Peter Blick RLymYC 11 ‑14 8 14 13 46
14th LADY LINDA 762 David Gredley RLymYC 13 11 (DNS) 8 14 46
15th OTTER 729 Nik Ingram LTSC 15 13 9 (DNC) DNC 54
16th SAMPHIRE 712 James Hoare RLymYC (RET) DNC DNC DNC DNC 68
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