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Event 4
Venue: Durleigh S.C., nr Bridgwater
Date: 19 August 2006
Axbridge take the series Richard Bruce had asked me if I wanted the club to provide anything for the event. I asked him to provide lots of clubbers and force 2-3 breeze. He got the breeze just right, not too much for the novice sailors but enough for the experienced boys and girls to have fun. As a warm up we had a quick paddle around 2 marks in fleets. Once the scorer had sorted the missing race vest numbers and clubs from the entry sheets we set a triangle course for the first race. The cross shore wind was good for beach starts and with the first mark on the far side of the lake there was a long beam reach for the first leg. Mark 2 was set to windward which caused a log jam as the 5.5m and 6.8m fleets caught up with the 3.5s. Many of the novice sailors were lapped by the experienced, locals like Richard Bruce, Rachael Ince and Aleks Sedgwick-Wilde. There were close battles all the way through the fleets. 3.5m sailors Laurel Townsend and Barny Beauchamp were never more than a few metres apart while in the 4.5m fleet, Sean Treacy and Rosie Hodgeson swapped 1st and 2nd places except when newcomer James Diamond won race three. Wimbleball Wombles filled most of the places in the 3.5m fleet as this new club started from scratch this year. Their Club Coach, Liz, started the Tamar Tigers club 3 years ago and moulded them into a winning team. Can she do the same with the Wombles? I think she can! Croft Farm are getting better with each event after 2 lean years while the Durleigh Devils can be proud of their performance at their home event. With SCOEC unable to send 6 competitors and having to take 3 maximum scores, they did well to score 1, 3 and 5 points with their sailors. Wimbleball suffered from lack of sailors in the larger sail sizes. The three other clubs gave us the closest finish of all thee events ever sailed in the South West zone. Team Scores were Axbridge Animals are the Zone Champions with 4 team wins. Other places are: Croft Farm 2nd; SCOEC 3rd; Waterland Wonders 4th; Wimbleball Wombles 5th; Durleigh Devils 6th.
Event Winners & Series Winners
For the forth event of the 2006 series the South West (north) clubs went to Durliegh Sailing Club, home of the Durleigh Devils. Talk of trouble on the motorways proved to be exaggerated or just plain fibs ‘cos the opposing teams came in force and ready for the 11 o’clock start. 33 competitors signed on with Ady at the registration desk while some clubbers’ parents helped me launch the boat and lay the marks.
Croft Farm Flyers -19 points: 3rd place (one class win)
Durleigh Devils - 19 points: 2nd place (two class wins)
Axbridge Animals -17 points: 1st place.
Axbridge Animals (Bic)
Event report written by
Geoff Pook (T15 CO - SWn Zone)
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