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Cumbley beats frostbite to win Solo Winters

by Event media on 5 Feb 2008
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Despite severe weather warnings around the country, 59 helms came from as far a field as Largo Bay SC in Scotland and Teign Corinthian in Devon to compete in the Solo Winters.

The final race positions, and the Championship were decided upon the outcome of a protest, however Charlie Cumbley took first place, Ewan Birkin-Walls second and Andy Davies third.

The bitterly cold day was offset, by some exciting completive sailing in force 3-4 winds. Slick race management kept everybody on their toes, and by running all three races back to back everybody was kept relatively warm.

In Race 1 Will Loy was first to the windward mark, a position he was to hold until the next beat, when he was overtaken by the Current National Champion, Andy Davies, who held on to take the race, with Will second, and Kevan Gibb in third Place.

Race 2 was taken convincingly by Charlie Cumbley, With Kevan Gib in second place and Ewan Birkin-Walls from Grafham in third. At this point the Championship was wide open with three helms all on 5 points tying for first place.

The final race positions, and the Championship were decided upon the outcome of a protest, however Charlie Cumbley took first place, Ewan Birkin-Walls second and Andy Davies third.

Solo - Final Overall Results

1st 4858 Charlie Cumbley Teign Corinthion YC (5.0) 1.0 1.0 7.0 2.0  
2nd 4857 Andy Davis Chase SC 1.0 (4.0) 3.0 8.0 4.0  
3rd 4506 Ewan Birkin-Walls GWSC (13.0) 3.0 2.0 18.0 5.0  
4th 4517 Kevan Gibb Largo Bay SC 3.0 2.0 (14.0) 19.0 5.0  
5th 4718 Paul Rayson Fishers Green SC (16.0) 6.0 7.0 29.0 13.0  
6th 4578 Neil Wilkinson Shustoke SC 10.0 (13.0) 4.0 27.0 14.0  
7th 4610 Nick Eaves Bartley SC (24.0) 7.0 8.0 39.0 15.0  
8th 4835 Will Loy Littleton 2.0 14.0 (60.0 DNC) 76.0 16.0  
9th 4866 Simon Jones Teign Corinthian (26.0) 5.0 12.0 43.0 17.0  
10th 4761 Cliff Crawshore Corus SC (12.0) 11.0 6.0 29.0 17.0  
11th 4832 David McGregor Hayling Island SC 8.0 (9.0) 9.0 26.0 17.0  
12th 4844 Stuart Hydon Shustoke SC 7.0 (12.0) 11.0 30.0 18.0  
13th 4698 Tony Cooper King George SC 9.0 (10.0) 10.0 29.0 19.0  
14th 4833 Ian Harridge Nantwich (37.0) 8.0 13.0 58.0 21.0  
15th 3620 Alistair McMillan Hollowell SC (23.0) 19.0 5.0 47.0 24.0  
16th 4861 Chris Brown RYA 4.0 21.0 (60.0 DSQ) 85.0 25.0  
17th 4571 Mark Maskell Fishers Green 11.0 (25.0) 16.0 52.0 27.0  
18th 4606 Mark Lee Spinnaker 6.0 (26.0) 26.0 58.0 32.0  
19th 4847 A McGaw King George SC 15.0 17.0 (27.0) 59.0 32.0  
20th 4357 Richard Pye Draycote Water 17.0 15.0 (60.0 DNC) 92.0 32.0  
21st 4703 Clive Evans Spinnaker 14.0 (27.0) 20.0 61.0 34.0  
22nd 4327 Stephen Denison Hollingworth Lake SC 18.0 18.0 (25.0) 61.0 36.0  
23rd 4581 Derek Jackman Chichester YC (33.0) 16.0 21.0 70.0 37.0  
24th 4714 Mike Ball Papercourt S C (28.0) 23.0 15.0 66.0 38.0  
25th 4441 Andrew Voysey   19.0 (37.0) 22.0 78.0 41.0  
26th 4669 Nick Rawlings Hayling Island SC 21.0 20.0 (23.0) 64.0 41.0  
27th 4741 Steve Jones Littleton SC (53.0) 24.0 18.0 95.0 42.0  
28th 4735 Daniel Goodman Kingsmead SC (48.0) 29.0 17.0 94.0 46.0  
29th 4772 Mike Wilkie Littleton SC (31.0) 28.0 19.0 78.0 47.0  
30th 4548 Tony Hanan RYA 27.0 22.0 (60.0 DNC) 109.0 49.0  
31st 3814 Peter McCrea Draycote Water 25.0 (32.0) 30.0 87.0 55.0  
32nd 4730 Keith Smith King George SC 34.0 (60.0 DNC) 24.0 118.0 58.0  
33rd 4738 Alastair Raynard Carsington SC 29.0 (33.0) 29.0 91.0 58.0  
34th 3663 Dave Smith Hollingworth Lake SC (46.0) 30.0 33.0 109.0 63.0  
35th 4342 Ross Lonsdale West Oxfordshire SC 32.0 31.0 (60.0 DNC) 123.0 63.0  
36th 4409 Simon Deeks Shustoke SC 20.0 44.0 (60.0 DNC) 124.0 64.0  
37th 4487 Richard Siggers Shustoke SC (43.0) 35.0 31.0 109.0 66.0  
38th 4784 Rob Marlow Shustoke SC (36.0) 34.0 32.0 102.0 66.0  
39th 4794 Robert Cartwright Blithfield SC (44.0) 36.0 39.0 119.0 75.0  
40th 4865 Tom Lonsdale West Oxfordshire SC (47.0) 39.0 37.0 123.0 76.0  
41st 4072 Richard Fray Shustoke SC 38.0 (40.0) 38.0 116.0 76.0  
42nd 4853 Martin Allen Bewl Valley SC (42.0) 41.0 36.0 119.0 77.0  
43rd 4291 Mike Clarke N Herts & E Beds 41.0 38.0 (60.0 DNC) 139.0 79.0  
44th 1302 Ed Nicklin Fishers Green (60.0 OCS) 47.0 34.0 141.0 81.0  
45th 4766 Derek Gibb Largo Bay SC 22.0 (60.0 DNC) 60.0 DNC 142.0 82.0  
46th 4550 Richard Butterfield Northampton SC 40.0 42.0 (60.0 DNC) 142.0 82.0  
47th 4031 Alison Eaves Corus SC (49.0) 43.0 40.0 132.0 83.0  
48th 4843 Hannah Showell Shustoke SC 39.0 45.0 (60.0 DNC) 144.0 84.0  
49th 4758 Peter Withrington Rickmansworth SC (50.0) 46.0 41.0 137.0 87.0  
50th 4810 Andrew Smith Draycote SC (60.0 DNC) 60.0 DNC 28.0 148.0 88.0  
51st 4837 Nigel Pybus Draycote Water 30.0 (60.0 DNC) 60.0 DNC 150.0 90.0  
52nd 1252 Richard Christmas Hunts SC (51.0) 48.0 42.0 141.0 90.0  
53rd 4207 S J Chilton Yorkshire Ouse SC (54.0) 50.0 43.0 147.0 93.0  
54th 4850 Joe McLaughlin Tamesis SC (60.0 DNC) 60.0 DNC 35.0 155.0 95.0  
55th 4589 Ian Ayres Rollesby Broad SC 35.0 (60.0 DNC) 60.0 DNC 155.0 95.0  
56th 4267 Rob Jackson Northampton SC 52.0 49.0 (60.0 DNC) 161.0 101.0  
57th 4040 John Daniels Llandegfedd 45.0 (60.0 DNC) 60.0 DNC 165.0 105.0  
58th 3838 Paul Sharrock GWSC 55.0 52.0 (60.0 DNC) 167.0 107.0  
59th 4762 Anthony O'Connor King George SC (60.0 DNC) 51.0 60.0 DNC 171.0 111.0  

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