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SailJuice Global Warm-Up passes halfway stage
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'SailJuice Global Warmup 2012'
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The Steve Nicholson Memorial Trophy is now complete putting the 2012 SailJuice Global Warm-Up past the halfway mark, with a Fireball still sitting in pole position.
It was a light wind regatta at Northampton last Saturday, which was booked to maximum capacity of 150 entries. A good opportunity for some of the hiking classes like the Merlin Rocket and RS400 to come to the fore after the windier outings at the Grafham Grand Prix and Bloody Mary earlier in January.
Dave Winder and Pippa Tayler held together a consistent day to win the doublehanded division, but Sam Mettam and Richard Anderton hung in with a 6th place in their Fireball to maintain the lead in the SailJuice series. Meanwhile Peter Gray and Alex in their Scorpion scored third in the division and also sit in third overall in the Series.
In the singlehanders, while two Phantoms led home the division on the day, Ian Morgan’s seventh place in the Laser gives him second overall in the SailJuice Series as the focus now turns to this weekend’s John Merricks Tiger Trophy at Rutland Water.
Last year Andy Smith and Tim Needham dominated a windy Tiger Trophy, winning all three races on the Saturday and becoming the first team ever to win the £1000 prize that has been on offer for many years to any boat that could win every race at the Tiger. This weekend the forecast is unpredictable, with the prognosis changing by the day. It could be a drifter, it could blow a gale, but past competitors will know that it has to be extreme before the Tiger Trophy is cancelled.
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Three races will be sailed back to back on Saturday with the fleet divided into fast and slow handicap but all sailing the same course. This enables average lap times to be established over the whole fleet and an overall winner decided. The annual Tiger Trophy Pursuit race on Sunday is non-discardable and has for many years been the downfall of some exceptional sailors.
Already more than 100 boats have entered in advance. To join them, click here. To see Overall Standings in the SailJuice Global Warm-Up 2012, click here.
N.B. Please check your race scores on the provisional overall results. Consolidating results from different events with different scoring systems is not straightforward, so if you think you’ve spotted an error, please let us know as soon as possible. Contact us here.
N.B. to qualify for the prizes in the Series, you need to have entered at least one of the events via the SailRacer entry system. Make sure you enter online to either of both of the two remaining events in this year’s series, the John Merricks Tiger Trophy at Rutland, and the Draycote Dash at Draycote Water Sailing Club.
Enter the events via the Series website here.
More on the SailJuice Global Warm-Up: This winter championship brings together five of the biggest winter handicap racing events into a unified series, to find out just who is tough enough to race their way through a British winter. Over the past two years this Series has seen some of the biggest names in dinghy racing compete in a range of classes.
Five major handicap events constitute this winter's series. They are:
Grafham Grand Prix, Grafham Water Sailing Club - Monday 2nd January 2012
Bloody Mary, Queen Mary Sailing Club - Saturday 7th January 2012
Steve Nicholson Trophy, Northampton Sailing Club - Saturday 28 January 2012
John Merricks Tiger Trophy, Rutland Sailing Club - Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th February 2012
Draycote Dash, Draycote Water Sailing Club - Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th February 2012
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For the first time, each of the events is using a set of PY handicap numbers based on the analysis provided by the Great Lakes Group. This group of experts has analysed the results of past grand prix events and produced a set of numbers that should yield a much more even spread of success across a greater number of classes. The success of this approach has already been proven at recent editions of the Bloody Mary.
SailJuice.com has once again teamed up with SailRacer.co.uk to provide an online entry system. This enables competitors to enter four of the five events in advance. To enter the Series, all you need to do is sign up for at least one of the events online. This costs exactly the same as entering on the day, but saves you the hassle, and means you qualify for the Series and give yourself a shot at the prizes. Enter the Series here here
With each event run on a different format, SailRacer has also devised a scoring system to balance up the relative value of each event, whether you're competing in one massed fleet such as at the Draycote Dash, Bloody Mary and Tiger Trophy, or in smaller divisions such as at the Grafham Grand Prix and Steve Nicholson Trophy. This scoring formula was used successfully in last year’s series, won by Andy Peake in a Musto Skiff.
There are some big incentives on offer, to be distributed to the winner, the runners-up and other competitors randomly drawn from further down the fleet. Prizes are being provided by: Laser Performance, Rooster Sailing, Holt Hyde Sails, Ovington Boats, RS Sailing, Yachts & Yachting, and SailJuice.com.
Prizes will be awarded at the RYA Volvo Dinghy Show at Alexandra Palace on the weekend of 3/4 March 2012.
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by Andy Rice
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