Flying 15's take to Llangorse lake

by Flying Fifteen on 18 May 2011 Southern Travellers series Llangorse Open Meeting. 18 boats turned out to contest the annual Open Meeting on Llangorse lake in the scenic Brecon Beacons. There were four Open Fleet boats, three silver and a hotly contested fleet of 11 Classics. The Llangorse Open Meeting was also the first event of the season in the Southern Travellers series.

Because of the possibility of transferring killer shrimps into the lake one of the visiting boats was lifted by a few volunteers from its road trailer, in whose frame these now famous creatures were deemed possibly to exist, onto a local trolley.

On Saturday the breeze was 12 knots gusting over 20 from the North-west and down the lake allowing the Race Officer, Robert Dangerfield, to set long challenging beats. In the first race the Open Fleet was led initially by Bill Anderson and Sally Farrant in 3453 followed by the local boat of Nick and Claire Taylor (3751), both with light crews prudently using the spinnaker. This pattern continued through the day, Anderson winning race two and Taylor race three.

Peter Card and David Hemingway won the first race in the Silver fleet despite flying their spinnaker rather longer than necessary when it refused to come down. In the second race, though, the conditions got the better of them and they produced the broach of the weekend allowing Alex and Mike Tatlow to win this and the next race.

The Classic fleet began their close contests with a general recall at the first start. After the second attempt David Morgan and Lorina Walden led in 2663, a previous World Champion boat in Simon Dangerfield’s hands. But there was very close competition between them, Tim Tomlinson and Jim Reid in 2433, Johnny Craddock and Kendal Paul in 2695 and Peter David and Andy Tulk in 2645. Tomlinson won followed by Morgan.

These three continued to battle out the remaining two races of the day, Tomlinson winning both and the others changing places. Having moved from an Ovington Mk 10 to 2663, David Morgan appeared to be taking time to get used to the older-style controls. After a good day the competitors repaired to the Red Lion in the pretty village of Llangorse for traditional real ale and Chicken Curry.

On Sunday the weather was cold and the wind 14 knots with strong gusts, usually at the gybe mark.

The same wind direction allowed the setting of long windward-leeward courses along the lake for the Simon Dangerfield Memorial Race in its second year. Nick Taylor led the Open fleet throughout and Alex Tatlow won the Silvers race. The Classics again provided the excitement. A boat returning from a premature start rammed the safety boat. Tim Tomlinson suffered some gear failure after the start allowing David Morgan away but he recovered and passed Morgan to take the race. Llangorse’s old lady, ff 55, retired with gear failure at this point but will soon be back in action.

For the final race the course was changed to allow some fast reaches to test the tired crews. The order was as in previous races but the last beat proved decisive with one side benefitting from a very favourable windshift. This allowed Bill Anderson to pass Nick Taylor in the Open fleet and Alex Tatlow to do the same over Peter Card in the Silvers. Tomlinson took the Classic race to complete a clean sweep. The Southern travellers will move to Cardiff Bay for the next event.

Flying Fifteen Open Meeting Llangorse Sailing Club

Final Results

Classic Fleet

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 11,

Rank	Fleet	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
1st	Classic	2433	Middle Nene	Tim Tomlinson	Jim Reid	(1.0)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	5.0	4.0
2nd	Classic	2663	LLangorse	David Morgan	Lorina Walden	(3.0)	2.0	3.0	2.0	2.0	12.0	9.0
3rd	Classic	2695	LLangorse	Johnny Cradock	Kendal Paul	4.0	(5.0)	2.0	4.0	4.0	19.0	14.0
4th	Classic	2645	LLangorse	Peter David	Andy Tulk	2.0	3.0	4.0	(7.0)	7.0	23.0	16.0
5th	Classic	2606	Broxbourne	Bob Tait	Peter Nash	(8.0)	4.0	5.0	5.0	3.0	25.0	17.0
6th	Classic	1155	LLangorse	Duncan Baird	Tim Bowen	5.0	7.0	(12.0 DNS)	3.0	8.0	35.0	23.0
7th	Classic	2626	South Cerney	Richard Taylor	Kate Holligan	7.0	6.0	6.0	(8.0)	5.0	32.0	24.0
8th	Classic	2630	LLangorse	Mike Jones	Mark Watts	6.0	(12.0 DNS)	12.0 DNS	6.0	6.0	42.0	30.0
9th	Classic	2000	Cardiff Bay	Idris Dribble	Ian Horton	(9.0)	8.0	7.0	9.0	9.0	42.0	33.0
10th	Classic	2801		Tony Oakley	Tim Greaves	(12.0 DSQ)	9.0	8.0	10.0	10.0	49.0	37.0
11th	Classic	55	LLangorse	Jeremy Soulsby	Katherine Soulsby	(12.0 DNF)	12.0 DNS	12.0 DNS	12.0 DNF	12.0 DNC	60.0	48.0

 Open Fleet

Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 4,

Rank	Fleet	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
1st	Open	3751	LLangorse	Nick Taylor	Claire Taylor	1.0	1.0	(3.0)	1.0	2.0	8.0	5.0
2nd	Open	3453		Bill Anderson	Sally Farrant	(2.0)	2.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	8.0	6.0
3rd	Open	3780	LLangorse	David Travis	Lynne Travis	3.0	(4.0)	2.0	4.0	3.0	16.0	12.0
4th	Open	3605	LLangorse	Chris Holt	Mike Redford	(4.0)	3.0	4.0	3.0	4.0	18.0

14.0

Silver Fleet

Rank	Fleet	SailNo	Club	HelmName	CrewName	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	Total	Nett
1st	Silver	3288	South Cerney	Alex Tatlow	Mike Tatlow	(2.0)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	6.0	4.0
2nd	Silver	3144	LLangorse	Peter Card	David Hemingway	1.0	(2.0)	2.0	2.0	2.0	9.0	7.0
3rd	Silver	3120	LLangorse	Mick Saunders	Alan Crossley	(4.0 DNF)	4.0 DNS	4.0 DNF	3.0	4.0 DNF	19.0	15.0

 

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