RS Aero Southern Championships at Hayling Island SC

by Liam Willis on 23 Jun 2017

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On a very warm and pleasant weekend 31 RS Aeros made it down to the south coast to Hayling Island Sailing Club for the RS Aero Southerns at the RS Classes Summer Champs. With over 200 boats entered from the various RS fleets and the forecast looking light but sailable, it was set to be a good weekend of racing and socialising. The racing took place on two separate courses with the RS300s, 100s and 500s joining the RS Aeros on one course and the rest of the fleets on the other. The Aeros would be run off PY with all the rig sizes scored as one fleet.

The Saturday saw a southerly sea breeze filling in just as we were launching and lasting for the rest of the day. The first race saw the front few boats doing the wrong course and having to unwind their mistakes, allowing Jane Peckham to in her RS Aero 7 to take the first win followed by Nigel Rolfe and Steve Cockerill. Race 2 saw Steve Cockerill in an RS Aero 7 taking an impressive win by over a minute and managing to keep up with the RS Aero 9s on the water. Jason Russell in a 7 rig took second with Paul Bartlett taking third and first RS Aero 9. An increase in breeze for the last race of the day once again saw Steve Cockerill and Jason Russell taking the top two positions, with Steve Norburyin third place. Meanwhile in the 9 rigs Paul Bartlett and Liam Willis were battling it out for fourth and fifth on handicap, at the finish Paul pipped Liam by two seconds to take fourth place. On returning to the beach we where greeted on with ‘drinks for tallies’ kindly supplied by RS Sailing- perfect for thirsty sailors after a hot day on the water! Everyone enjoyed a perfect HISC summer’s evening on the balcony eating curry, drinking plenty and listening to live music.

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The Sunday morning saw a light breeze and an hour’s postponement was displayed until some breeze materialised. It was the turn of the 9 rigs to take the top spots with the top three places going to Paul Bartlett, Liam Willis and Andrew Wilde who were all in their RS Aero 9s. Nigel Rolfe took the first place 7 rig in forth position. The Race officer tried to get another race in but the wind dyed off as the first boat got to the first markand it was abandoned.

When the scores were added up at the end of the weekend, Steve Cockerill come out on top. Paul Bartlett took second overall and first 9 rig. Top home boat, Jason Russell, in his 7 rig and took third overall with Liam Willis in his Aero 9 closely behind. Nigel Rolfe took fifth Place overall. The first RS Aero 5s was to Hayling member, Hilary Baker. A very pleasant and fun weekend was had by all.

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Thanks to the huge amount of effort by Hayling Island SC and the RS Admins for putting on such a well managed 200 boat event and Harken and RS Sailing for their support. The RS Aero fleet looks forward to returning to Hayling this summer for the 2017 RS Aero UK National Championship from 31st August to 3rd September. Online entry is open and following the Class’first World Championship in France a month earlier good fleet of charter RS Aeros will also be available.

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Results

Rank	Helm	Club	Class	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	Net
1st	Steve Cockerill	Stokes Bay SC	RS AERO 7	3	1	1	-10	15	5
2nd	Paul Bartlett	Starcross YC	RS AERO 9	-14	3	4	1	22	8
3rd	Jason Russell	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	8	2	2	(33 DNC)	45	12
4th	Liam Willis	Lymington Town SC	RS AERO 9	-12	6.5	5	2	25.5	13.5
5th	Nigel Rolfe	Burghfield SC	RS AERO 7	2	-12	11	4	29	17
6th	Charlie Sansom	Bowmoor SC	RS AERO 7	-10	4	8	5	27	17
7th	Chris Jones	Sutton Bingham SC	RS AERO 7	5	8	6	-14	33	19
8th	Steve Norbury	Warsash SC	RS AERO 7	6	11	3	-13	33	20
9th	Sean Craig	Royal St George YC	RS AERO 7	4	6.5	10	(33 DNC)	53.5	20.5
10th	Jane Peckham	Gurnard SC	RS AERO 7	1	15	9	-18	43	25
11th	Fernando Gamboa	Lee on Solent & CDPA	RS AERO 9	-18	5	7	15	45	27
12th	Matt Evans	Great Moor SC	RS AERO 7	-15	9	13	8	45	30
13th	Jack Hardie	Frensham Pond SC	RS AERO 7	7	10	-18	17	52	34
14th	Tony Jukes	Chelmarsh SC	RS AERO 9	9	20	-28	6	63	35
15th	Peter Chaplin	Burghfield SC	RS AERO 7	-16	13	12	11	52	36
16th	Andrew Wilde	Burghfield SC	RS AERO 9	13	-23	21	3	60	37
17th	Courtney Bilbrough	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	-19	17	15	9	60	41
18th	Matt Hill	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	17	-24	16	12	69	45
19th	Sarah Smith	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	11	16	-23	19	69	46
20th	Simon Hill	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	-20	14	17	20	71	51
21st	Peter Craggs	York Railway Inst SC	RS AERO 7	21	18	14	-22	75	53
22nd	Andy Hill	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	-23	19	20	16	78	55
23rd	Mark Tissiman	Chelmarsh SC	RS AERO 9	-29	27	29	7	92	63
24th	Julie Willis	Lymington Town SC	RS AERO 7	22	22	-26	21	91	65
25th	Chris Hobday	Gurnard SC	RS AERO 7	-25	21	22	23	91	66
26th	Mark Stokes	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	26	25	19	(33 DNC)	103	70
27th	Ben Cooper	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 7	-27	26	24	26	103	76
28th	Fraser Elms	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 9	24	-28	27	27	106	78
29th	Hilary Baker	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 5	-30	30	25	24	109	79
30th	Rosie Berry	Hayling Island SC	RS AERO 5	-31	29	31	25	116	85
31st	Mark Rolfe	Upton Warren	RS AERO 7	28	32 DNF	30	(33 DNC)	123	90
32nd	Richard Lilley	Lymington Town SC	RS AERO 9	(33 DNC)	33 DNC	33 DNC	33 DNC	132	99