Cockle and Mucklow Trophies at Overy Staithe Sailing Club
by Jennie Clark 14 Aug 01:46 PDT
12 August 2025
Cockle and Mucklow Trophies at Overy Staithe © Jennie Clark
It truly was the Glorious 12th for the club's Cockle Trophy on Tuesday. The Stiffkey Cockle is a well known boat in North West Norfolk with many of them sailed at Overy Staithe. Their tan sails regularly grace the creek and this is the chance for them to dust off their racing skills and move up a gear from those leisurely sails around the creek and to the beach at Scolt Head.
There's been a recent move to using electric engines with the Cockles and much debate about battery life, cruising time, shaft length etc and today we proved that a crewed Cockle with an electric outboard can tow at least 2 more Cockles and their crews! Huge thanks to Jim Heffer for the tow, which ensured 2 other Cockles got to the start line in time!
A course was set in the lagoon by the Race Team of Jerry Clark and Rachel Campbell-Gray, and the safety team of Paul Sacker and Jeremy Neville-Elliot stood by to retrieve late finishers who were struggling in the light winds against the falling tide.
'Tickle' (Bernard and Ellie Clark) took line honours. 'Avocet' (Jim and Hugo Heffer) were second. 'Elsie' (Malcolm Rogers and Paul Goakes) were 3rd and (Gannet) William Heffer was fourth.
The Mucklow Trophy, which was previously awarded to the GP fleet and now awarded as a general handicap trophy, took place on 12 August with a mixed fleet of Lasers, OK's and Lightning dinghies taking part. They sailed the same course as the Cockle fleet and Rodney Tidd took first place on the water and on handicap. Nina Plumbe (Lightning) was second, and Fred Deakin (Laser) 3rd.