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President's Cup 2025 at Snowflake Sailing Club

by Richie Dugdale 4 Mar 03:46 PST 2 March 2025
President's Cup at Snowflake SC © Paddy Wildman

A glorious Spring day greeted the 41 Snowflakes sailors for the combined allcomers President's Cup. A warm gentle south westerly breeze slowly filled across the broad enabling OOD John Parker to set a nice windward-leeward course along the broad.

With a combined start of keelboats and dinghies, the first start caused a general recall with so many boats over the line in the tussle for prime position.

On the second attempt they all got away with Steve Carver in a Star first round the windward mark, closely followed by Matthew and Tom Thwaites in Lasers and Paul Barker with a healthy lead over the other Yeoman competitors. The broad was a spectacle of colour with spinnakers flying and it was good to see the turquoise sails of three Enterprises.

Lasers and Solos prevailed in the conditions and it was Tom Thwaites beating Matthew to take the win, Chris Bunn (Solo) was third.

After some refreshments race 2 got under way, with Paul Barker again getting a great start in his Yeoman. This proved crucial and with impeccable sailing throughout, took the win on handicap from Chris Bunn, Matthew Thwaites, Tom Thwaites and Brian Wilkins (Solo) respectively.

Race 3, it was all to play for, with two out of three to count. This time the Stars prevailed but Paul Barker, with a third fantastic start split the Stars from a clean sweep finishing second to Steve Carver (Star) and Nick Eastwood (Star) third.

After timekeeper Paddy Wildman finalised the results, it was the consistent performance of Paul Barker and Trevor Whiting (Yeoman) that secured the President's Cup with Tom, Matthew and Chris all on equal points finishing overall in that order after countback.

Overall Results:

PosClassSail NoHelmCrewR1R2R3Pts
1stYeoman91Paul BarkerTrevor Whiting‑5123
2ndILCA 7 / Laser212026Tom Thwaites 1‑445
3rdSOLO5724Chris Bunn 32‑65
4thILCA 7 / Laser217649Matthew Thwaites 23(RET)5
5thStar6829Steve CarverJen Macalpine‑116.517.5
6thStar8194Nick EastwoodAlex Star‑Bar‑Staff7‑10310
7thSOLO6064Chris Bolton 4‑8812
8thStar7024Mark CartwrightJames Cowan6‑16713
9thStar7779James CannDanny boy‑2413518
10thSOLUTION391lan Hearsum ‑2291019
11thSOLO4223Brian Wilkins ‑16514.519.5
12thYeoman303Tim Frary ‑186.51319.5
13thILCA Laser Radial170613Harry Wemyss 1011.5(DNS)21.5
14thStar54Ben Pond 915(RET)24
15thSOLO6122Paul Carrington 14‑221226
16thYeoman21David ShipstoneBecky Brooks / Steve‑3218927
17thENTERPRISE3177Wilum JohstonKate Davies13‑291629
18thYeoman115Marty ThompsonJack Barnham1514‑2029
19thILCA 7/ Laser157172Cliff Haslam 19‑281130
20thEnterprise20208Toby PearceCharlotte Knight823(DNS)31
21stTOPPER45571Tara Quayle ‑232114.535.5
22ndYeoman104Phil BettsRoger Claxton1719(DNS)36
23rdILCA 7 / Laser211414Ed Brightwell 2511.5(DNS)36.5
24thILCA Laser212043George Davies 2717(DNS)44
25thILCA 6 Laser Radial217748Ralph Leftley 26‑271945
26thTOPPER29734Yasmine Braham 2026(DNS)46
27thSplash812Hamish Harmer 2125(DNS)46
28thILCA 6 / Laser Radial137012Lucy Pitcher ‑37301747
29thRS 400587Sam Moore ‑36311849
30thILCA 6/ Laser Radial141024Jasmine Herring 2924(DNS)53
31stYeoman144lan Tims 12(DNS)DNS54
32ndYeoman119Paul FynnAmanda Brooks‑40362157
33rdENTERPRISE22355James StreetLily Herring(DNF)20DNS62
34thILCA 6 / Laser Radial201707Arthur Welin 3032(DNS)62
35thILCA 7 / Laser118118Harrison Ryder 3335(DNS)68
36thYeoman103lan HansonQ Stewart3434(DNS)68
37thSplash825Anya Gittins 28(DNS)DNS70
38thILCA 6 / Laser Radial186338Oliver Besant 3933(DNS)72
39thILCA 6 / Laser Radial189323Harley Goodson 31(DNS)DNS73
40thTopper48908Lily Davies‑Frary 35(RET)DNS77
41stYeoman163Sara ThwaitesLisa Bacon38(DNS)DNS80
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