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Fireball European Championship - Elements halt racing action

by Cormac Bradley on 1 Aug 2014
2014 Fireball European Championship Johnnie Simpson
Thursday’s racing at the Homecoming Scotland 2014 European Championships didn’t happen as Bruce Leask, Principle Race officer was beaten by the elements and was thus unable to get a race in. The fleet set out for the race course shortly after 12 noon for a scheduled 13:00 start, to the backdrop of a third cruise liner in Lerwick Harbour in as many days.

With a forecast of dropping wind strength as the day wore on, the omens were not good. The presence of the second largest floating crane in the world would have influenced where the race course could be set but initially this enormous piece of engineering excellence didn’t influence where we might be sailing.

However, the wind refused to co-operate and despite the persistent attention of the Race Team, they flew racing’s equivalent of the white flag, 'N over A' shortly after 15:00. A long sail home was shortened by the mark boats offering multiple tows to the competitors.

Fireball International Secretary & IJ © Andrew Davies
Fireball International Secretary & IJ © Andrew Davies


Tonight we have the UK Fireball Association 'setting out their stall' for the 2015 Worlds in Pwllheli, Wales.

Tomorrow, Friday, is the last day of the regatta and there must be the prospect of an earlier start to the day to try and recover at least one of today’s lost races.

For the present though, the scoreboard stays the same, which means that Matt Burge and Richard Wagstaff (GBR 15093) lead by two points from Tom Gillard and Richard Anderton (GBR 15081).

Overall Results



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

Rank

Nat

SailNo

HelmName

CrewName

R1

R2

R3

R4

R5

R6

Total

Nett

1st

GBR

15093

Matt Burge

Richard

Wagstaff

(5.0)

1.0

1.0

2.0

1.0

2.0

12.0

7.0

2nd

GBR

15081

Thomas

Gillard

Richard

Anderton

(4.0)

2.0

2.0

1.0

3.0

1.0

13.0

9.0

3rd

GBR

15113

David

Wade

Tim Hartley

2.0

(4.0)

4.0

4.0

2.0

3.0

19.0

15.0

4th

IRL

15114

Barry

McCartin

Conor Kinsella

1.0

(6.0)

6.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

25.0

19.0

5th

CZE

15110

Jaroslav Verner

Jakub

Nápravník

3.0

3.0

3.0

5.0

(6.0)

6.0

26.0

20.0

6th

GBR

15046

Alex Taylor

Geoff

Edwards

6.0

5.0

7.0

7.0

(27.0

DNF)

4.0

56.0

29.0

7th

CZE

14551

Jiri

Paruzek

Jakub Kosvica

8.0

7.0

5.0

6.0

5.0

(14.0)

45.0

31.0

8th

SHE

14513

Scott

Nicolson

Roger Goudie

(15.0)

8.0

10.0

8.0

7.0

8.0

56.0

41.0

9th

IRL

14713

Frank Miller

Ismail Inan

(13.0)

10.0

11.0

12.0

10.0

9.0

65.0

52.0

10th

SHE

14402

Will'm

Mouatt

Neil Fraser

(27.0

DNF)

11.0

8.0

9.0

9.0

16.0

80.0

53.0

11th

SHE

14566

Brydon Leask

Fraser McKenzie

14.0

12.0

12.0

(16.0)

8.0

13.0

75.0

59.0

12th

SHE

14635

David Grant

Andrew Grant

(20.0)

15.0

14.0

14.0

11.0

11.0

85.0

65.0

13th

GBR

14950

Chris

Thorne

Russell

Thorne

11.0

17.0

15.0

11.0

12.0

(27.0

DNC)

93.0

66.0

14th

CZE

14262

Ondrej

Labuda

Karel Otto

9.0

14.0

13.0

(18.0)

14.0

18.0

86.0

68.0

15th

SHE

15022

John

Manson

Ivan Fraser

17.0

18.0

(20.0)

13.0

15.0

7.0

90.0

70.0

16th

SUI

14921

Maja Suter

Thomas Boehm

7.0

(27.0

OCS)

18.0

22.0

17.0

10.0

101.0

74.0

17th

SHE

14395

 

 

10.0

16.0

19.0

15.0

16.0

 

103.0

76.0

 

 

 

Darren Forrest

Craig Forrest

 

 

 

 

 

(27.0

DNF)

 

 

18th

IRL

15007

Louis

Smyth

Cormac Bradley

12.0

19.0

9.0

10.0

(27.0

DSQ)

27.0

DNC

104.0

77.0

19th

IRL

14691

Louise Mc Kenna

Hermine O'Keeffe

16.0

9.0

17.0

17.0

(19.0)

19.0

97.0

78.0

20th

GBR

14872

Barbara Newson

Guy

Newson

19.0

13.0

(22.0)

19.0

20.0

15.0

108.0

86.0

21st

SHE

14463

Maggie

Adamson

Ian

Adamson

18.0

20.0

16.0

21.0

(27.0

DNF)

12.0

114.0

87.0

22nd

SUI

14824

Thomas

Gautschi

Getrund Gautschi

23.0

22.0

21.0

20.0

13.0

(27.0

DNC)

126.0

99.0

23rd

CZE

14674

Roman Vasik

Hana

Trusikova

21.0

21.0

(24.0)

23.0

18.0

17.0

124.0

100.0

24th

GBR

14499

Andrew Leslie

Edward Johnstone

(27.0

DNF)

23.0

23.0

24.0

22.0

20.0

139.0

112.0

25th

SHE

14755

Magnus

Johnston

Nicola Duthie

22.0

24.0

(25.0)

25.0

21.0

21.0

138.0

113.0

26th

SHE

13714

Gary

Fullerton

John Allan

24.0

(27.0

DNF)

26.0

27.0

DNC

27.0

DNC

27.0

DNC

158.0

131.0
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