RS200 Winter Championships at Bristol Corinthian

by Nick Charles on 29 Mar 2014

Bristol Corinthian welcomed a bunch of hardy sailors to their RS200 Winter Championships last weekend (22/23 March). It was definitely a case of winter by name and winter by nature as hail storms made the final stages of rigging and launching that bit less appealing!

26 boats braved the cold and were treated to three races in a W/SW breeze ranging between seven and 22 knots. The wind wasn't making life easy for Arky the race officer though - as clouds came through there were shifts of 40 degrees plus - invariably half way through the start sequence!

The Rushdens showed early season form with a very consistent day (1,1,3), closely following by the current national champions Matt Mee/Emma Norris who again showed excellent downwind pace.

Bristol Corinthian did themselves proud on Saturday evening; hot filling food, highly competitive skittles matches and a respectable quantity of rum helped the evening progress into the early hours.

Sunday brought with it some more consistent sunshine and a gradually increasing breeze peaking at 25 knots. This made for close and interesting racing with a lot of place changes. Picking the correct side of the run proved to be key with most people feeling both the snakes and ladders impact of this. Matt and Emma were on rocketship form and showed us all how it is done with three bullets on the Sunday giving them the win overall. Ian Martin with crew Charlotte Dobson had started to get the boat in gear and despite a close encounter with the spreader mark were showing good pace around the course. However, James and Will Rushden managed to cling onto second place and third overall were Nick and Juliet Charles showing consistency over the weekend.

Charlie Roome with crew Eddie Glennie proved that practice isn't really required to finish seventh overall and first silver fleet. They were closely followed by Neil Barratt and Sophie Jones in ninth. The Bronze fleet was won by Sarah and David Green from Llangdegfedd.

It was great to see a competitive fleet out on the water early in the season, also good to see several new and upgraded boats reflecting the ongoing strength of the fleet.

Our massive thanks to Bristol Corinthian and race officer Bob Wainright who delivered six good races in challenging conditions.

Next stop on the 2014 calendar is Rutland Water for the high octane Sprint Championships on 12-13th April. The short course will test our early season sharpness and boat handling so we look forward to seeing a good crowd of 200s there.

RS200 Winters

Overall

Sailed: 6, Discards: 1, To count: 5, Entries: 26, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Fleet	Class	SailNo	HelmName	CrewName	Club	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Total	Nett
1st	Gold	RS 200	1311	Matt Mee	Emma Norris	Red Wharf Bay SC/HLSC	(8.0)	2.0	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	15.0	7.0
2nd	Gold	RS 200	1481	James Rusden	Will Rusden	RLYC	1.0	1.0	3.0	2.0	(15.0)	4.0	26.0	11.0
3rd	Gold	RS 200	1458	Nick Charles	Juliet Charles	Datchet	3.0	6.0	4.0	3.0	3.0	(7.0)	26.0	19.0
4th	Gold	RS 200	1354	Ian Martin	Charlotte Dobson	Burghfield	5.0	(13.0)	7.0	9.0	2.0	2.0	38.0	25.0
5th	Gold	RS 200	1562	Edd Whitehead	Alice Kingsnorth	Parkstone YC	(11.0)	4.0	5.0	8.0	4.0	6.0	38.0	27.0
6th	Gold	RS 200	1467	Ally Martin	Bethan Carden	Burghfield	7.0	3.0	8.0	6.0	7.0	(27.0 DNC)	58.0	31.0
7th	Silver	RS 200	766	Charlie Roome	Eddie Glennie	Ranelagh SC/Itchenor SC	(13.0)	11.0	1.0	5.0	6.0	9.0	45.0	32.0
8th	Gold	RS 200	1285	John Teague	Naomi Pound	BCYC	4.0	5.0	11.0	12.0	(14.0)	3.0	49.0	35.0
9th	Silver	RS 200	1072	Neil Barrett	Sophie Jones	Roundhill SC	2.0	8.0	(14.0)	7.0	9.0	11.0	51.0	37.0
10th	Gold	RS 200	1554	Thomas Wright	Lottie Clay	Budworth SC	6.0	7.0	6.0	(10.0)	10.0	8.0	47.0	37.0
11th	Gold	RS 200	940	Dicken Maclean	Lucy Preston	HISC	9.0	(15.0)	9.0	11.0	5.0	5.0	54.0	39.0
12th	Gold	RS 200	1510	Claire Walsh	Darren McNamara	BCYC	12.0	9.0	12.0	(13.0)	8.0	12.0	66.0	53.0
13th	Gold	RS 200	908	Pete Vincent	Tess Nicholls	BCYC	10.0	10.0	10.0	4.0	(27.0 DNF)	27.0 DNC	88.0	61.0
14th	Silver	RS 200	975	Pete Nelson	Nic Holden	Northampton	16.0	12.0	(21.0)	14.0	18.0	10.0	91.0	70.0
15th	Silver	RS 200	1173	Chris Larr	Abigail Larr	Northampton	15.0	14.0	13.0	(17.0)	16.0	13.0	88.0	71.0
16th	Silver	RS 200	418	Liz Teague	Alistair Norris	BCYC	14.0	(22.0)	17.0	16.0	11.0	14.0	94.0	72.0
17th	Bronze	RS 200	1342	Sarah Green	David Green	Llandegfedd	19.0	(23.0)	19.0	15.0	13.0	15.0	104.0	81.0
18th	Silver	RS 200	1230	Chris Bower	Josh Dack	Parkstone YC	(21.0)	20.0	16.0	18.0	12.0	16.0	103.0	82.0
19th	Bronze	RS 200	584	Tim Freeman	Hannah Sands	Warsash	22.0	17.0	18.0	23.0	17.0	(27.0 DNC)	124.0	97.0
20th	Silver	RS 200	1154	James Williams	Sarah Tuppen	RHYC	17.0	18.0	15.0	22.0	(27.0 DNF)	27.0 DNC	126.0	99.0
21st	Bronze	RS 200	1278	Adrian Ste650ll	Roz Stell		18.0	19.0	23.0	19.0	(27.0 DNC)	27.0 DNC	133.0	106.0
22nd	Bronze	RS 200	1444	Jody Warner	Emma Warner		20.0	21.0	22.0	20.0	(27.0 DNC)	27.0 DNC	137.0	110.0
23rd	Bronze	RS 200	1200	Keri Harris	Theo Harris	RNSA/Salcombe	(27.0 DNC)	16.0	20.0	21.0	27.0 BFD	27.0 BFD	138.0	111.0
24th	Bronze	RS 200	1330	Pete Haddrell	Flea Haddrell	Burghfield	23.0	25.0	24.0	(27.0 DNC)	27.0 DNC	27.0 DNC	153.0	126.0
25th	Bronze	RS 200	327	Chris Baker	Alex Savage	BCYC	24.0	24.0	(27.0 DNF)	27.0 DNF	27.0 DNC	27.0 DNC	156.0	129.0
26th	Silver	RS 200	1285-2	Paul Teague	Dave Hawkins	BCYC	(27.0 DNC)	27.0 DNC	27.0 DNC	24.0	27.0 DNC	27.0 DNC	159.0	132.0