RS Feva – Ever changing conditions for end of season Championships

by Debbie Darling on 27 Oct 2010

RS Feva Grand Prix 3 Digital images

RS Feva end of Season Championships were run in a great breeze (including a couple of little whirlwinds!) with showers on Saturday, which was replaced with gentler but perishing winds and wall to wall sunshine on Sunday. Matt Whitfield and Gareth Viney started off by continuing their dreadful run of misfortune with yet another scoreless race. Then however they pulled it together to score three bullets, a second and a third to take a very well deserved title.

Only Morgan Peach and Herbie Harford kept up the challenge throughout the weekend after Hugo Tucker and Tim Collino’s challenge faltered on the Sunday. Of the pursuing pack it was returning stars Cathy Lear and Francine Counsell that fared best to take third place. The remainder of the prizes went to Jovian Short and James Barlow in fourth and second Torbay boat to confirm the emergence of the RTYC as arguably the current dominant club in the class, Owen Bowerman and Charlie Darling who put a forgettable first day behind them (after breaking their toestraps before the first race) in fifth and on tiebreak only in sixth Robert Baddeley and James Taylor who were a constant threat.

RS Feva Grand Prix 3 © Digital images

Merit awards went to the four Oakham School lads who assisted very ably in the protest room to help get through the longish list of disputes thrown up by the large RS Tera fleet with whom the event was shared. Special mentions for Jack Nunn and James Dando from Cardiff Bay who overcame a torrid Saturday with meaningful Sunday and Oakham’s Stuart Doughty and Dominic Lashbrook who managed to survive every race on Saturday. Thank You Rutland – brilliant as ever!

RS Feva Grand Prix 3 © Digital images

Results

Rank	HelmName	CrewName	Total	Nett
1st	Matthew Whitfield	Gareth Viney	53	8
2nd	Morgan Peach	Herbie Harford	20	13
3rd	Cathy Lear	Francine Counsell	27	20
4th	Jovian Short	James Barlow	33	23
5th	Owen Bowerman	Charlie Darling	72	27
6th	Robert Baddeley	James Taylor	39	27
7th	Hugo Tucker	Tim Collino	55	36
8th	Matilda Dolin	William Dolin	55	41
9th	Gemma Bird	Guy Wilkinson	55	41
10th	Robert Masterman	Alice Masterman	91	46
11th	Ben Oliver	Tom Oliver	62	47
12th	Anna Prescott	Jess Eales	92	53
13th	Jacob Barnett	Emma Barnett	79	61
14th	Barnaby Blackstone	William Proud	85	63
15th	Sarah Hussey	Hannah Harvey-Trott	109	64
16th	Hugo Andrews	Elliot Spensley-Corfield	92	70
17th	Rebecca Morris	Islay Grant	100	76
18th	Hector Nelson	George Hunter	121	85
19th	Tom Mitchell	Oliver Scott	107	85
20th	Pheobe Warren	Lily Summers	120	89
21st	Sophie Ward	Will Ward	136	106
22nd	Cameron Webber	Joseph Fenwick	141	112
23rd	Molly Griffin	Dominic Hall	147	117
24th	Tom Johnson	Imogen Scott	146	118
25th	Chay Taylor	Stirling Taylor	154	122
26th	Sam Barson	Jake McCagney	162	127
27th	Jane Furness	Immi Slinn	169	129
28th	Molly Gilbert	Mollie Lippett	177	132
29th	Matt Hill	Joe Reeve	180	135
30th	Finbar Preston	Ed Shelley	188	143
31st	Joe Burgin	Gregory Sale	178	143
32nd	Max Matthews	Guy Rivington	196	151
33rd	Will Frost	James Dermott	189	152
34th	Jack Nunn	James Dando	201	156
35th	Max Griggs	Cody Griggs	195	159
36th	Tom Darling	Luke Berry	205	160
37th	Izzy White	Jane Harris	214	169
38th	Millie Gibbons	Katie Prescott	218	173
39th	Harry O'Riordan	Issy O'Riordan	219	174
40th	Emily Proud	Pippa Williams	222	177
41st	Rhiannon Flack	Louise Hughes	224	179
42nd	Hannah Brant	Deborah Hughes	234	189
43rd	Finley Boon	Ruby Griffin	249	204
44th	Stuart Doughty	Dominic Lashbrook	249	204