Osprey Nationals Day 1 - Perfect day’s sailing

by Alan Henderson on 21 Jul 2014

Burge and Townend - Osprey Nationals Day 1 Mike Rice

Day 1 of the Osprey Nationals 39 Ospreys started off a perfect day’s sailing at Porthpean SC, Cornwall. Despite apocalyptic weather forecasts of lightning, thunderstorms and floods, what actually arrived was a lovely sunny day, with WSW winds rising through the day.

The first race was sailed in 8-10 kts, on four laps of alternate triangles and sausages. Matt Burge and Vyv Townend took control of the race from the first lap, closely followed by another returning Osprey sailor, the 1996 Champion D J Edwards, crewed by James Coxon. Third on the water, but unfortunately OCS, were Gareth Caldwell and Jon Gibbons. A gear failure in the second race compounded a day to forget for Gareth and Jon.

For the second race, the breeze popped up to 12 knots and the sunshine continued to blaze down to create perfect sailing conditions, on a similar four lap course. Burge and Townend, and Edwards and Coxon continued their battle at the front to take first and second again, followed home by Chris Gould and Nick Brooomhall in third.

Tomorrow has three races scheduled at Porthpean, and some new course shapes may add to the mix.

Results

Race 1
1. Matt Burge and Vyv Townend
2. D J Edwards and James Coxon
3. Martin Cooney and Peter Frith

Race 2
1. Burge and Townend
2. Edwards and Coxon
3. Chris Gould and Nick Broomhall

Overall so far
1. Burge and Townend
2. Edwards and Coxon
3. Gould and Broomhall

Tally	SailNo	HelmName	CrewName	Race 1	Race 2	Total	Nett	Rank
21	1339	Matt Burge	Vyv Townend	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	1st
34	1333	D J Edwards	James Coxon	2.0	2.0	4.0	4.0	2nd
15	1311	Chris Gould	Nick Broomhall	4.0	3.0	7.0	7.0	3rd
8	1290	Martin Cooney	Peter Frith	3.0	4.0	7.0	7.0	4th
23	1272	Phil Angrave	Peter Smith	5.0	5.0	10.0	10.0	5th
20	1343	Richard Marshall	Peter Greig	6.0	8.0	14.0	14.0	6th
5	1281	Terry Curtis	Nick Frampton	8.0	7.0	15.0	15.0	7th
40	1280	Tim Rush	Mike Greig	11.0	6.0	17.0	17.0	8th
32	1341	Russ Wheeler	Chris Saunders	7.0	13.0	20.0	20.0	9th
14	1316	Alan Henderson	Alastair Barrie	9.0	12.0	21.0	21.0	10th
31	1296	Kevin Francis	Phil Male	12.0	10.0	22.0	22.0	11th
7	1291	Alex Willis	Nick Willis	14.0	9.0	23.0	23.0	12th
37	1085	George Odling	Harry Odling	10.0	15.0	25.0	25.0	13th
11	1322	Mick Greenland	Lee Marriott	13.0	14.0	27.0	27.0	14th
27	1292	Paul Heather	Jonathon Osgood	17.0	11.0	28.0	28.0	15th
39	1173	Emma Stevenson	Tim Bowden	16.0	16.0	32.0	32.0	16th
24	1338	Ken Brown	Chris Butters	15.0	21.0	36.0	36.0	17th
16	1337	Rob Shaw	Ian Little	18.0	18.0	36.0	36.0	18th
33	1318	Simon Hawkes	Tyler Harmsworth	21.0	19.0	40.0	40.0	19th
30	1289	Paul Blackburn	Phil Burchell	20.0	20.0	40.0	40.0	20th
12	1348	Oscar Chess	Lisa Chess	22.0	22.0	44.0	44.0	21st
6	1356	Mark Weston	Tim Keighley	19.0	28.0	47.0	47.0	22nd
22	1295	Chris Greetham	Carrie Bolt	25.0	23.0	48.0	48.0	23rd
29	1114	Ros Downs	David Downs	26.0	24.0	50.0	50.0	24th
13	1267	David Best	Tony Pauffley	24.0	27.0	51.0	51.0	25th
28	1166	Mike Murray	Pam Murray	28.0	25.0	53.0	53.0	26th
10	1314	Viola Scott	Mike Scott	40.0 DNF	17.0	57.0	57.0	27th
26	1340	John Mills	Caz Mills	33.0	26.0	59.0	59.0	28th
35	1199	Anna Weld	Paddy Seyler	32.0	29.0	61.0	61.0	29th
9	1264	Andrew Jenkins	Rebecca Jenkins	31.0	30.0	61.0	61.0	30th
38	1347	Briony Meakins	Phil Meakins	23.0	40.0 DNF	63.0	63.0	31st
19	1329	Roger Blake	Jenny Blake	27.0	36.0	63.0	63.0	32nd
18	1325	Robin George	Nicola George	29.0	34.0	63.0	63.0	33rd
25	1319	Chris Playfair	Adam Playfair	30.0	33.0	63.0	63.0	34th
2	740	Paul Roberts	John Clark	34.0	31.0	65.0	65.0	35th
4	1310	Mike Richardson	David Bourne	35.0	32.0	67.0	67.0	36th
36	1194	TBA	Andrew Edmonds	36.0	35.0	71.0	71.0	37th
17	1352	Nick Jones	John Shenton	37.0	40.0 DNF	77.0	77.0	38th
1	1331	Gareth Caldwell	Jon Gibbons	40.0 OCS	40.0 DNF	80.0	80.0	39th