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Event 3
Venue: Notts County SC, Newark
Date: 15 July 2006
Hot and breezy conditions set the scene for a perfect day of racing at
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Bosworth Bullets, Carsington Comets, Notts County Outlaws and Pitsford Pirates fielded strong teams, with Alice Butts the sole entry from the Rutland Rockets.
The largest fleet of the day was the 3.5m class, with 14 entries and pleasingly many first timers.
The sailors were split on to three separate courses and straight away the top places were claimed by the Bullets and Comets.
Robyn Robinson of Bosworth had a great day, taking first in the largest 3.5m class with Sophie Archer from Pitsford scoring an excellent 2nd place at only her 2nd T15 event.
3rd place and tied on points with Sophie was Daniel Wilson at his first ever event, a superb achievement. No doubt the right encouragement from his mum ex Olympic sailor and World Champion Penny Wilson (
Meanwhile the 4.5m class saw Dale Burgess, Tom Owen and Charlie Money battling for victory with each taking firsts and after 8 races being separated by only 3 points. Dale’s cool consistency took the day with Tom finishing 2 points behind and Charlie one point behind him.
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The 5.5 Class was a bit depleted this time, and Charlie Worthington making a clean sweep of firsts in every race, despite Rebecca Lovatt’s best efforts to challenge him and taking 2nd.
Theo Hempshall of the Carsington Comets sailed in the 6.8 Open Class unopposed but still put in a great performance to take the Comets up the leader board.
On the main course Josh Leadbetter, Matthew Brown and Kieran Martin with Josh taking a comfortable lead with Matthew and Kieran neck and neck all day to be finally equal on points and Matthew taking second on discard.
Great to see so may new faces and another victory for the Bosworth Bullets places them top on the team leader board followed by the Carsington Comets, but with the final event in September nothing is certain yet.
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Team Winners
Bosworth Bullets
Event Report by:
Gerry Ball, T15 CO (East Zone)
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T15 Champions 2008
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Mount Batten Centre - Plymouth
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 27/28 September 2008
Closing date: 5 September
Cancelled: lack of candidates
Lakes Leisure - Windermere
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 30/31 August 2008
Closing date: 15 August
Fully booked
James Hamilton Heritage Park - Glasgow
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 30/31 August 2008
Closing date: 15 August
Cancelled: lack of candidates
Gwent Adventures - Wales
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 9/10 August 2008
Closing date: 25 July
5 candidates on course
Grafham Water Centre - Cambridgeshire
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 5/6 July 2008
Closing date: 30 June
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6 candidates on course
Wimbleball Lake - Somerset
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek course: 3/4 July 2008
Closing date: 30 June
4 candidates on course
Roadford Lake - Okehampton
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek Course: 4/5 June 2008
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Carsington Watersports - Derbyshire
Course type: Freestyle
Weekend Course: 3/4 May 2008
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Carsington Watersports - Derbyshire
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek Course: 1/2 May 2008
6 candidates on course
Mountbatten Centre - Plymouth
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend Course: 12/13 April 2008
Cancelled: lack of candidates
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