RS400 Northern Tour at Notts County SC

by Nicola Ogden on 18 Sep 2014 On a dim Saturday morning in September the Notts County Junior Race Training squad showed their talents off to the 14 Notts County home boats and 14 visitors, for final round of the Northern Tour. As the juniors headed home to complete their homework the 400s tucked into bacon and eggs care of the galley.

The forecast was not promising with light winds, slowly building throughout the day, but that coupled with the swinging wind direction and fluctuating breeze which couldn't make its mind up, was the race officer’s nightmare! Needless to say the RO persevered gallantly and three races were held on the first day.

The competitive fleet saw lots of place changes and Wayne and Deb Fletcher made sense of the testing conditions early on Saturday to a bullet in race 1. Not to be out done though Chris Pickles and Martin Sharman also showed the fleet how it was done posting a bullet in race 2.

Following a quick lunch of chips, the fleet launched into a steady (compared to earlier races) easterly force 2 with the odd gust allowing crews to remove their legs from the chute. The improved conditions allowed Stuart Poole (PRO) to set a longer course, utilising the length of the lake and allowing more tactical racing. Wayne and Deb Fletcher came back to take their second bullet of the day followed closely by Michael Sims and Rich Brown in second and Paul and Michael Allen in third.

At this point the fleet broke for the evening, with the bar in full flow and the galley doing their infamous curry and rice everyone get a little merry. It wasn’t long before the alcohol fund came out and the youngster taught the slight older ones how to play ring of fire. Needless to say Sunday 14th September started with a lot of hangovers and some very green faces.

The fourth race kicked off on time and this time it was Michael Sims and Rich Brown who posted the first bullet of the day! Wayne and Deb Fletcher were second and David Exley and Louise McKeand were third.

Race 5 started quite quickly afterwards with Chris Pickles and Martin Sharman coming back to claim their first bullet of the day and show they were still thinking about that shiny RS 400 Northern tour trophy waiting in the club house. Caroline Exley and Jude Allen posted their highest place of the weekend coming second and Wayne and Deb Fletcher third.

With a quick comfort break the fleet of 28 boats came back out on to the water for the final race of the two days, but with a black flag making an appearance and a general recall it took a few tries to get the fleet off and going. Leaving the placing of the sixth race to be Chris Pickles and Martin Sharman getting their final bullet of the weekend, and winning the RS 400 Northern Tour for 2014. Wayne and Deb came back with a second and Michael Sims and Rich Brown came in third.

Big thank you to everyone who came and joined in with our Record Breakers themed weekend, and to Rebecca Ogden and Nicki Theokritoff for taking the photo’s over the weekend. NCSC hopes to see you all again next year!!

NCSC RS400 Open Meeting September 2014

Results are provisional as of 21:30 on September 16, 2014

Overall

Sailed: 6, Discards: 1, To count: 5, Entries: 28, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Total	Nett	Notes
1st	703	DELPH SC	PICKLES CHRIS	SHARMAN MARTIN	2	1	4	(29 DNF)	1	1	38	9
2nd	1029	SCALING DAM	Fletcher Wayne	Fletcher Deb	1	(3)	1	2	3	2	12	9	NO NUMBER RED HULL
3rd	1435	CARSINGTON	Sims Michael	Brown Rich	3	2	2	1	(4)	3	15	11
4th	1395	LLSC	ALLEN PAUL	ALLEN MICHAEL	4	6	3	4	5	(29 BFD)	51	22
5th	1186	LLSC	EXLEY DAVID	MCKEAND LOUISE	5	5	(10)	3	7	4	34	24
6th	1216	LLSC	EXLEY CAROLINE	ALLEN JUDE	7	(10)	7	5	2	7	38	28	LADY HELM
7th	1014	WEST RIDING SC	GLEDHILL HAMISH	DOWSE SIMON	(9)	4	5	7	9	5	39	30
8th	1161	NCSC	ROBERTSON BEN	CLAY AMY	13	(14)	8	6	10	8	59	45
9th	1202	BARTLEY/CHASE	KNIGHT SAM	PICKERING SAM	8	(13)	9	10	8	10	58	45
10th	1418	QUEEN MARY SC	FAIRBROTHER HOWARD	HOSKEN LOUISE	10	8	6	8	15	(29 DNC)	76	47
11th	932	NCSC	Lye Jonathan	Hughes Milly	12	9	11	9	6	(14)	61	47
12th	1131	WELTON/RYYC	WILLIAMSON BEN	TICEHURST CHARLIE	11	7	(14)	13	11	6	62	48
13th	1187	NCSC	STEPHANIE GUNN	MARTIN GUNN	14	12	13	12	(17)	9	77	60	LADY HELM
14th	1346	NCSC	KILBURN ANDREW	KILBURN PHIL	18	17	(21)	11	12	11	90	69	YOUTH HELM?
15th	1196	SCALING DAM	Snowden Peter	Hinsliffe-Smith Kathryn	6	16	(22)	18	18	16	96	74
16th	1336	NCSC	Parr John	Parnham Kim	16	11	17	15	16	(18)	93	75
17th	1365	NCSC	Hextall Simon	Hextall Fiona	15	20	12	(21)	14	20	102	81
18th	564	DERWENT RESERVOIR	AINSWORTH JACOB	ROBERTS KAYLEIGH	(25)	18	18	14	19	13	107	82
19th	1363	NCSC	Ryan Ross	Hinsliffe-Smith Amy	17	15	(20)	16	20	17	105	85	Junior Crew
20th	1289	LEIGH AND LOWTON	HALMAN STUART	WALSH ANNA	(26)	19	15	20	22	12	114	88
21st	1246	NCSC	Stott Martin	Ogden Nicola	22	23	16	17	13	(29 BFD)	120	91
22nd	1354	NCSC	Twemlow Ken	Ogden Lindsay	23	22	19	(24)	24	15	127	103
23rd	950	NCSC	Elkington Alan	Clayton Louise	19	24	(25)	19	21	21	129	104
24th	1067	NCSC	Logan James	Logan PHILLIPA	21	21	(27)	22	23	19	133	106
25th	1222	NCSC	Hobson John	HUTCHINSON D	27	27	24	23	(29 DNC)	23	153	124
26th	971	NCSC	Haslam Tom	Baldwin Karen	20	25	23	(29 DNC)	29 DNC	29 DNC	155	126
27th	1122	NCSC	Coupland Jeremy	Hayhoe Martin	24	26	26	(29 DNC)	29 DNC	22	156	127
28th	866	NCSC	REYNOLDS PAUL	REYNOLDS KATH	(29 DNF)	29 DNc	29 DNC	29 DNC	29 DNC	29 DNC	174	145