International Canoe leads Draycote Dash fleet

by Andy Rice on 25 Nov 2012 Gareth Caldwell’s International Canoe is leading the 90-boat fleet after day one of the Draycote Dash, the first of six handicap events in the GJW Direct SailJuice Winter Series.

With four races run today at Draycote Water near Rugby, just five points separate the top six boats, with nine different classes filling the top 10. Sunday’s one and only heat is a 100-minute Pursuit Race, worth double points and non-discardable, so Caldwell’s lead is not at all secure.

Andy Smith and Alex Davies had a disastrous start to Saturday with a 77th place, but followed up with 1,9,3, and with the discard now sit just a point behind the International Canoe. Some of the faster handicap boats were looking slow in the light four knot winds of the morning, but as the breeze built to 12-14 knots by the afternoon, it was time for the faster boats to shine.

Ben Schooling capitalised on the stronger wind to win the last two races in his Musto Skiff, and Gareth Davies’ International Moth improved from 80th and 56th in the first two races to get up on the hydrofoils for an eighth and second in the final two heats.

Preliminary Results

Overall

Sailed: 4, Discards: 1, To count: 3, Ratings: PY, Entries: 90, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Class	sailnos	HelmName	CrewName	helm_club	PY	1	2	3	4	Total	Nett
1st	Fast	International Canoe	321	Gareth Caldwell		Blithfield Sailing Club	905	8.0	2.0	2.0	(91.0 DNC)	103.0	12.0
2nd	Fast	505	9088	Andy Smith	Alex Davies	Notts County Sailing Club	889	(77.0)	1.0	9.0	3.0	90.0	13.0
3rd	Fast	RS600	920	Peter Nelson		Northampton Sailing Club	920	6.0	(49.0)	3.0	4.0	62.0	13.0
4th	Fast	Musto Skiff	291	Ben Schooling		Datchet Water Sailing Club	855	12.0	(14.0)	1.0	1.0	28.0	14.0
5th	Medium	Phantom	1345	Andy Couch		Rudyard Lake Sailing Club	1010	(7.0)	4.0	6.0	6.0	23.0	16.0
6th	Slow	Laser	188781	Ian Morgan		Hill Head Sailing Club	1118	1.0	(16.0)	5.0	11.0	33.0	17.0
7th	Slow	GP14	14082	Sam Blocksidge	Connie Hicklin	South Staffs Sailing Club	1130	4.0	12.0	11.0	(68.0)	95.0	27.0
8th	Fast	Cherub	2698	Paul Jenkins	Peter Jenkins	Weir Wood Sailing Club	890	(21.0)	5.0	10.0	14.0	50.0	29.0
9th	Medium	Phantom	55	Simon Hawkes		Wimbleball Sailing Club	1010	20.0	7.0	4.0	(29.0)	60.0	31.0
10th	Fast	Merlin Rocket	3743	Matt Biggs	John Hackett	Blithfield Sailing Club	980	(18.0)	10.0	11.0	10.0	49.0	31.0

Full results here
SailJuice Series website