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Gul RS700 Championships 2008 - Day 2

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Paul Bayliss won the first race of the second day at the Gul RS700 Nationals being held at Hayling Island SC, then was adjudged OCS in race 4 but retains his overall lead after the discard. Bayliss leads from Tim Johnson who has now racked up three second places and a third place. Third is David Gorringe who won the final race Monday.

Day 2 of the nationals dawned with a strong wind and an ominously big swell in Hayling Bay. As the fleet arrived at the race area , the sea state was every bit as challenging as was predicted with some very large and sharp waves punching through the race area and causing problems for a number of the newcomers to the fleet. The day started with a training seminar by Paul Bayliss on Championship preparation and Speed round the course where he talked us through the previous days races highlighting his thinking during the phases of the race.

Race 3

The first race proved a serious challenge for many of the newcomers to the fleet with the big waves coming in at quite an unusual angle demanded very different techniques on either tack. It was the old hands who dominated the racing with Paul Bayliss taking the win from Tim Johnson with Nick Peters holding onto third from an ‘on form’ Dave Gorringe.

Race 4 - STOP PRESS

Rumour has it that Dave Gorringe, having achieved his best result of the event in crossing the line in second place was heard to shout 'I am brilliant'. This proved to be quite prophetic when the race winner was later found to have been OCS giving Dave a well deserved Nationals race win.

Despite the conditions the fleet was feeling it’s feet and the start line was a very crowded place and the individual recall flag was flying. The fleet split left and right again as opinions on how best to sail the tide differed. Paul Bayliss came in from the left to lead at the windward mark just ahead of Tim Johnson and Pete Purkiss who had gone right.

Downwind Paul dropped it at the first gybe followed by Tim Johnson and Pete Purkiss. Seeing this Dave Gorringe dropped his kite and sailed a very conservative race taking the lead. This allowed Tim Johnson and Mark Pollington to hoist and make some big gains on the leader. Dave Gorringe covered Tim up the right hand side of the beat whilst Paul Bayliss and Jon Heissig charged up the left to join in the fight for the lead.

The last run was very close but Paul Bayliss crossed the line first from Dave Gorringe, Tim Johnson and Jon Heissig. It was only later that the fleet discovered that Paul had been OCS giving Dave a well deserved and popular win. Overnight Paul Bayliss retains his championship lead from Tim Johnson but with Dave Gorringe moving up to third overall. In the silver fleet Andrew Collenette is leading in 10th place overall from Pete Shaw.

RS700 - Leading positions after 4 races, 1 discard (49 entries)

1st 172 Gold RS700 875 Paul Bayliss Portchester SC 1.0 1.0 1.0 (50.0 OCS) 53.0 3.0
2nd 153 Gold RS700 762 Tim Johnson Chew Valley Lake SC 2.0 (3.0) 2.0 2.0 9.0 6.0
3rd 170 Gold RS700 979 David Gorringe Lymington Town SC 3.0 (8.0) 4.0 1.0 16.0 8.0
4th 179 Gold RS700 923 Nick Peters HISC 4.0 6.0 3.0 (7.0) 20.0 13.0
5th 165 Gold RS700 882 Jon Heissig ltsc/gygsc 5.0 5.0 (50.0 DNC) 3.0 63.0 13.0
6th 164 Gold RS700 970 Tim Polglase HISC 13.0 2.0 (50.0 DNC) 5.0 70.0 20.0
7th 156 Gold RS700 962 Steve Marshall Sully SC 7.0 11.0 5.0 (13.0) 36.0 23.0
8th 188 Gold RS700 890 Ian Swann HISC/Brightlingsea SC (29.0) 7.0 8.0 9.0 53.0 24.0
9th 155 Gold RS700 969 Andy Brown HISC (24.0) 13.0 7.0 12.0 56.0 32.0
10th 184 Silver RS700 893 Andrew Collenette HISC 8.0 12.0 (23.0) 17.0 60.0 37.0
11th 189 Gold RS700 981 Gerard Hughes HISC 21.0 (26.0) 9.0 8.0 64.0 38.0
12th 154 Silver RS700 978 Peter Shaw Carsington SC (23.0) 17.0 17.0 6.0 63.0 40.0
13th 178 Gold RS700 767 Stuart Riches Hunstanton SC 11.0 15.0 14.0 (20.0) 60.0 40.0
14th 173 Silver RS700 714 Aidan Mitchell HISC 14.0 (29.0) 18.0 10.0 71.0 42.0
15th 157 Silver RS700 984 Adam Golding HISC (50.0 DNF) 20.0 6.0 19.0 95.0 45.0
16th 168 Gold RS700 908 Mike Dencher Chew Valley Lake SC (18.0) 18.0 13.0 14.0 63.0 45.0
17th 169 Silver RS700 939 Sam Attrill Gurnard SC 12.0 (21.0) 20.0 15.0 68.0 47.0
18th 183 Gold RS700 906 Andy Holland Hunstanton SC 19.0 14.0 (50.0 DNC) 18.0 101.0 51.0
19th 180 Gold RS700 758 Colin Dacey Grafham Water SC 15.0 30.0 10.0 (50.0 DNC) 105.0 55.0
20th 175 Silver RS700 904 David Patterson HISC 22.0 (24.0) 11.0 22.0 79.0 55.0
21st 186 Gold RS700 928 Fraboulet Cidric YC de Carnac France 25.0 (50.0 DNC) 15.0 16.0 106.0 56.0
22nd 182 Gold RS700 761 Pete Purkiss Brightlingsea SC/GWSC 10.0 4.0 (50.0 DNC) 50.0 DNC 114.0 64.0
23rd 185 Silver RS700 866 Richard Marsden HISC 27.0 19.0 19.0 (50.0 DNC) 115.0 65.0
24th 158 Silver RS700 870 Tony Dencher Netley SC 9.0 9.0 (50.0 DNC) 50.0 DNC 118.0 68.0
25th 159 Silver RS700 912 Richard Allen Carsington SC (50.0 DNC) 50.0 DNC 12.0 11.0 123.0 73.0

Event website - www.hisc.co.uk/openresults08/rs700_nationals_2008.htm

by Sail-world.co.uk 10:52 PM Mon 25 Aug 2008 GMT

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