Banbury SC GP14 Open

by Tim Matthews on 14 Jul 2009 Banbury Sailing Club hosted round 10 of the GP14 Midland Bell Championship on Sunday 12th July. An entry of 16 boats was the highest number for some years. Eight home boats were joined by eight visitors, from Chase, Midland, South Staffs and Nottingham sailing clubs.

The weather was kinder this year with a fairly constant westerly F4 making for short beats and a long tight reach the length of the lake.

An impromptu fly past by a WW2 Lancaster bomber preceded the start!

Two races were sailed back to back in the morning with Dave Young and Elii Davis (South Staffs) claiming two firsts , Paul Leavers and Nigel Spurr, (Midland) two seconds and a third each for Terry Edwards and Darren Heath (South Staffs) and Peter Storey & Kevin Hopkins (Midland).

After a lunch, with the meeting in the bag, Dave and Elii opted to watch the final race from the shore, leaving Paul and Terry to battle it out for second and third places overall.

After a short race Terry and Darren finished first, Michelle Williams and Adam Frogatt second and David Bolton King and Edward Bolton King third.

Overall Results:

Sunday July 12th 2009 - 3 Races - 2 to Count
Posn Boat Helm Crew Club Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Points Posn

1 13978 Dave Young Elii Davies S Staffs 1 1 17 2 1
2 13611 Terry Edwards Darren Heath S Staffs 3 5 1 4 2
3 14045 Paul Leavers Nigel Spurr Midland 2 2 4 4 3
4 13906 David Bolton-King Edward Bolton-King Banbury 7 4 3 7 4
5 13957 Michelle Williams Adam Frogatt Chase 6 6 2 8 5
6 13960 Peter Storey Kevin Hopkins Midland 5 3 17 8 6
7 13945 John Salomonson Sabina Lawrie S Staffs 4 7 6 10 7
8 13743 Tim Foden Howard Collerson Banbury 10 9 5 14 8
9 10011 Roy Nettleship Sabine Schamberg Nottingham 8 8 8 16 9
10 13932 Tim Matthews Bella Matthews Banbury 11 10 7 17 10
11 13859 Derek Fleming Derek Tiller S Staffs 9 13 10 19 11
12 13860 John Guymer Ian Davies Banbury 12 11 9 20 12
13 3BSC David Glanville Jessica Glanville Banbury 14 17 11 25 13
14 13410 Xavier Gouson Graham Jolfs Banbury 13 12 17 25 14
15 12444 Terry Clapp Joan Taylor Banbury 15 14 12 26 15
16 8582 Eamon Colgan Ruth Colgan Banbury 16 17 17 33 16

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