Black flag day at Hayling Island for the Fifteens

by Sail-World.com/uk on 29 Jul 2008
The flags were out for the second day of the Flying 15 Nationals at Hayling Island SC - trouble was they were the Black sort. Light Easterly winds combined with an east running tide created a difficult situation for the fleet and with a biased line the black flag was soon in operation.

Caught over in the first race of the day were Steve Goacher and Phil Evans, who had finished third in the opening day race, but worse was to come when they were out again in the second race. Jeremy Davy and Tim Harper were another crew to hit the double today.

The second race removed a whole swath of front runners - overnight leader Greg Wells and Mark Darling, second placed Barry and Sue Parkin and the current world champions, Mike Hart and Richard Rigg. The Spanish pair, Javier Chacaregui and Miguel Santa Usula were another team who went in for an early shower.

Smiling through it all were Alan Bax and Bill Masterman, winners here in 1999 when the Nationals were last held at HISC. A pair of second places were enough to take them into the lead at the end of day two and together with second placed Henry Craven-Smith and Matt Alvarado, they are BFD free.

Third overall are Barry and Sue Parkin, and fourth are Wells and Darling. Charles Apthorp and Alan Green leapt up the standings with a sixth and then victory in race three to be fifth overall, while Hart and Rigg take sixth overall.

A feature of the series so far has been the close tactical racing in the leading group, all races have been windward/leeward, with six to eight boats fighting right to the line. In the first race Monday the leading four boats finished within five seconds, led by Craven-Smith and Alvarado with Bax and Masterman second and the Parkins third. In race two it was Apthorp and Green who led all the way, again with Bax and Masterman taking second and then Gill Browning and Simon Weatherill third place.

Tuesday sees another two races for the 52 competitors.

Flying 15 - Overall positiona after 3 races, 1 discard

1st GBR 3883 Alan Bax Bill Masterman HISC -4 2 2 8 4 pts
2nd GBR 3904 Henry Craven-Smith Matt Alvarado HISC -5 1 4 10 5 pts
3rd GBR 3911 Barry Parkin Sue Parkin HISC 2 3 (53.0 BFD) 58 5 pts
4th GBR 3920 Greg Wells Mark Darling HISC 1 5 (53.0 BFD) 59 6 pts
5th GBR 3923 Charles Apthorp Alan Green HISC -18 6 1 25 7 pts
6th GBR 3917 Mike Hart Richard Rigg Port Dornwick 6 4 (53.0 BFD) 63 10 pts
7th GBR 3681 Pip Hudson Alice Hudson Broxbourne SC -14 7 6 27 13 pts
8th GBR 3818 Gill Browning Simon Weatherill HISC 12 -13 3 28 15 pts
9th GBR 3842 Simon Kneller Dave Lucas Grafham Water SC 7 11 (53.0 BFD) 71 18 pts
10th GBR 3799 Veronica Falat Ben Falat WO Broad YC 10 8 -11 29 18 pts
11th GBR 3862 Andrew Jameson James Grant HISC 11 9 (53.0 BFD) 73 20 pts
12th ESP 3796 Javier Chacaregui Miguel Santa Usula Spain 9 12 (53.0 BFD) 74 21 pts
13th GBR 3927 Mark Wood Tim Rumfitt HISC 13 -16 12 41 25 pts
14th GBR 3611 Steve Douthwaite Paul Averley DRSC 16 (53.0 BFD) 10 79 26 pts
15th GBR 3630 Ossie Stewart Kevin Richardson HISC 17 10 -19 46 27 pts
16th GBR 3845 Tessa Lancaster Nick Lancaster HISC -26 21 8 55 29 pts
17th GBR 3853 Robert Hogben Glyn Morgan Bewl Valley SC -29 15 14 58 29 pts
18th GBR 3563 Mike McIntyre Caroline McIntyre HISC 23 -24 7 54 30 pts
19th GBR 3787 David Brockbank Janet Lefton RWYC -31 26 5 62 31 pts
20th GBR 3914 Adrian Tattersall Tim Smart RYA 8 23 (53.0 BFD) 84 31 pts
21st GBR 3736 Peter Bannister Sue Bannister HISC 22 (53.0 BFD) 9 84 31 pts
22nd GBR 3851 Ian Linder Kevin Sweetman Burghfield SC -21 14 17 52 31 pts
23rd GBR 3721 David Tunnicliffe Stevy Jackson Largs 19 -27 13 59 32 pts
24th GBR 3615 Roger Palmer Barbara Palmer HISC -20 17 20 57 37 pts
25th GBR 3901 Mike Kilbee Tony Cox Parkstone YC -27 20 18 65 38 pts
26th GBR 3890 Geoff Bayliss Martin Grady HISC -30 18 21 69 39 pts
27th GBR 3786 Chris Harris Tracy Harris Northampton 25 -28 15 68 40 pts
28th GBR 3902 Peter Hogg Alex Dobson Dovestone SC -36 19 25 80 44 pts
29th GBR 3536 Stephen Hine Rick Bowers HISC 24 (53.0 BFD) 22 99 46 pts
30th GBR 3667 Jonathan Ward Julia Ward Ogston SC -41 33 16 90 49 pts
31st GBR 3813 Peter Slater Brian Campbell-Bottoms HISC -34 25 24 83 49 pts
32nd GBR 3720 Richard King Roy O'Donnell HISC -35 30 23 88 53 pts
33rd GBR 3772 Chris Swallow Matt Pallett Burton SC 28 -35 26 89 54 pts
34th GBR 3821 Stephen Goacher Phil Evans RWYC 3 (53.0 BFD) 53.0 BFD 109 56 pts
35th GBR 3812 Paul Maxfield Caroline Maxfield HISC 38 22 (53.0 BFD) 113 60 pts
36th GBR 3928 Howard Green Ian Preston Leigh & Lowton SC 33 -38 27 98 60 pts
37th GBR 3393 Dave Moody Jimmy Moody HISC (53.0 DNF) 32 28 113 60 pts
38th GBR 3815 Athol King Trevor Bellis DRSC -32 31 30 93 61 pts
39th GBR 3537 David Nicholls William Nicholls HISC -39 29 33 101 62 pts
40th GBR 3583 Mark Allerston David Pattison HISC -37 36 29 102 65 pts
41st GBR 3922 Jeremy Davy Tim Harper HISC/DWSC 15 (53.0 BFD) 53.0 BFD 121 68 pts
42nd GBR 3776 Stefan Lloyd Ruth Wake HISC -43 34 36 113 70 pts
43rd GBR 3653 Adam Mangan Emma Mangan Datchet Water SC 40 (53.0 DNF) 31 124 71 pts
44th GBR 2606 Bob Tait Nick Muserane TBA -45 40 32 117 72 pts
45th GBR 3378 Andy Clark Nadia Melnikova Datchet Water SC -50 37 37 124 74 pts
46th GBR 2655 Ian horton Phill Lewis Cardiff Bay YC 42 -44 34 120 76 pts
47th GBR 3778 Geoffrey Povey Claudette Povey Bewl Valley SC -49 43 35 127 78 pts
48th GBR 798 Ian Shaw Gavin Shaw Wimbledon Park SC -47 39 39 125 78 pts
49th GBR 1155 Duncan Baird Tim Bowen Llangorse SC -44 42 38 124 80 pts
50th GBR 1333 Peter Clark Chris Thompson Humber YC -48 41 40 129 81 pts
51st GBR 3565 David Attwood Fergus Attwood Tayvallich SC (53.0 DNF) 45 41 139 86 pts
52nd GBR 3271 Mike Durrant Claire Durrant HISC 46 (DNC) DNC 152 99 pts

Event website - www.hisc.co.uk