Noble Marine UK Spring Championships - Overall report

by The RS Aero UK Class Association on 28 Mar 2017 Twenty-eight RS Aeros competed at Island Barn, excited at the prospect of a breezy blue-sky day with flat water and a large home fleet. A welcoming committee to help up the ramp, fine bacon baps and an Aero bar for all those who had pre-registered set the feel for the day with everyone made thoroughly welcome on what certainly felt like a warming change in the season.

RS Aero 9 rigs stayed firmly in their bags with all the fun you could ever want available within the RS Aero 7 and RS Aero 5s.

Race one was pretty close racing amongst the RS Aeros. Emma Pearson won in the Aero 5s giving the boys plenty to think about. Peter Barton took the RS Aero 7s from the UK Winter Champ, Liam-Lightening Willis. Having done an awesome job over achieving as host the gross under achievement award went to Gareth Griffiths for having to double back for the gate marks in the course he had helped devise!

Race two saw perhaps the windiest race of the day producing some fantastic photographs of the RS Aeros blitzing around the tight course. The first five RS Aero 7s were within 30 seconds at the finish. Matt Evans took the 5 race, and Peter won a second 7 race after late comeback overtaking Greg Bartlett on the final lap. Then in for a welcome lunch and more fine sustenance ready to regroup for two more in the afternoon.

The Race three belonged to Matt Evans who flung his RS Aero 5 off the port end of the start line and cleverly up the left side of the course with suck vigor that he beat all but one RS Aero 7 to the top mark! Chairman Rolfe and Greg Bartlett battled it out at the front until a late charge by Barton caught a lucky shift on the left elevated him into the lead. Matt Evans comfortably took another RS Aero 5 race with many 7s struggling to catch him in the breeze.

Race four. Tired legs were setting in after a day of coping with the bullet gusts but still most of the overall fleet finished the last race which was encouraging. Matt Evans won the 5s again and with it the RS Aero 5 Spring title. For the first time Peter Barton led from the beginning (copying some of Matt’s lefting) with Paul Bartlett narrowly taking second from the chasing pack of nippers.

Thanks to Noble Marine for their support towards a fantastic array of prizes. The class also awarded the Trophy for the recent 47 entry RS Aero UK Winter Champs held at the Oxford Blue where 16 year old Liam Willis pipped his elders to take the title.

1st RS Aero 5 - Matt Evans, Great Moor SC
1st RS Aero 7 – Peter Barton, Lymington Town SC
1st Lady – Emma Pearson, Weston SC
1st Youth – Liam Willis, Lymington Town SC
1st Master – Paul Bartlett, Starcross YC

Next up is the RS Aero Sustainability Trophy this Saturday 1st April where the Class and Burghfield SC are partnering with The Green Blue to improve environmental awareness and reduce impact within our part of the sport. From there the action moves north to beautiful Ullswater for a long weekend in Lakeland at the RS Aero UK Northern Champs over Easter with Good Friday as an RS Aero Class training day.

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Results:

Rank	Sail	Helm	Club	Class	Rating	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	Nett
1st	2093	Peter Barton	Lymington Town SC	RS Aero 7	1071	-1	1	1	1	4	3
2nd	1637	Greg Bartlett	Starcross YC	RS Aero 7	1071	-3	2	2	3	10	7
3rd	1551	Liam Willis	Lymington Town SC	RS Aero 7	1071	2	3	3	-6	14	8
4th	2157	Nigel Rolfe	Burghfield SC	RS Aero 7	1071	4	4	4	-8	20	12
5th	1930	Paul Bartlett	Starcross YC	RS Aero 7	1071	-6	6	6	2	20	14
6th	2152	Ben Rolfe	RS SAILING/Burghfield	RS Aero 7	1071	-7	5	5	5	22	15
7th	2148	Gareth Griffiths	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 7	1071	5	9	-10	4	28	18
8th	1817	Chris Jones	Sutton Bingham SC	RS Aero 7	1071	8	7	7	-11	33	22
9th	2135	Geoff Davidson	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 7	1071	-12	8	8	7	35	23
10th	2162	Peter Chaplin	Burghfield SC	RS Aero 7	1071	13	-15	12	9	49	34
11th	1792	Andy Hill	Hayling Island SC	RS Aero 7	1071	10	-17	14	10	51	34
12th	2074	Matt Evans	Great Moor SC	RS Aero 5	1120	-19	16	9	12	56	37
13th	1575	Mark Carleton	Papercourt SC	RS Aero 7	1071	14	12	13	(29.0 DNC)	68	39
14th	2110	Emma Pearson	Weston SC	RS Aero 5	1120	15	-18	16	13	62	44
15th	1927	Jack Hardie	Frensham Pond SC	RS Aero 7	1071	17	14	15	(29.0 DNC)	75	46
16th	1573	Adrian Stell	Papercourt SC	RS Aero 7	1071	(29.0 DNC)	10	11	29.0 DNC	79	50
17th	2214	Andy Norman	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 7	1071	11	11	(29.0 DNC)	29.0 DNC	80	51
18th	2100	Julie Willis	Lymington Town SC	RS Aero 5	1120	18	-20	20	14	72	52
19th	1211	Nick Eales	Lymington Town SC	RS Aero 7	1071	-21	19	19	16	75	54
20th	1002	David Cherrill	Broadwater SC	RS Aero 7	1071	16	13	(29.0 DNC)	29.0 DNC	87	58
21st	2113	Chris Smith	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 5	1120	(29.0 DNC)	29.0 DNC	18	15	91	62
22nd	1463	Paul Wright-Anderson	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 7	1071	9	(29.0 DNC)	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	96	67
23rd	1964	Alice Lucy	Rutland SC	RS Aero 5	1120	(29.0 RET)	29.0 DNC	17	29.0 DNC	104	75
24th	2001	Keith Willis	Lymington Town SC	RS Aero 7	1071	20	(29.0 DNC)	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	107	78
25th	1698	Dave Baldwin	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 5	1120	(29.0 DNC)	21	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	108	79
26th	2105	Ian Peace	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 7	1071	(29.0 DNS)	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	116	87
26th	2133	Tom Russell	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 7	1071	(29.0 RET)	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	116	87
26th	2134	Mark Ampleford	Island Barn RSC	RS Aero 7	1071	(29.0 RET)	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	29.0 DNC	116	87