Chris Sands, the Club Manager advises:
Start of first race Sat. 1300hrs
Start of first race Sun. 1030hrs
The registration desk will be open from 0900-1200hrs Sat.
Camping is not allowed at the club but there is a campsite nearby tel no. 023 92502611. Dogs are allowed, however not inside the main clubhouse. The main club house is situated on the sea front (46 Marine Parade East) between the boat compound and the Belle View Hotel. It is a big white, glass fronted building.
There is an evening meal of roast beef or vegetable schnitzel available for £4-00 per head. There is no entertainment booked however the bar will be open all day until approx. 2300hrs.
It is one of the main UK ranking events (ranked at 1.25), and we hope will be well attended.
On the weekend of May 20/21 Burton Sailing Club hosted a training day run by Ian Pinnel on Saturday followed by a mini open meeting on Sunday. The event was held in light to medium winds with marginal trapezing being the norm throughout. The training made us all think more about our downwind sailing and to spend more time on boat maintenance with centreboards getting more attention than they usually do around the boat park at Burton. A series of short races were held followed by some tacking practice all watched and videoed by Ian to be used as evidence against us later.
The races starting on Sunday had a F1 Monaco feel with overtaking being difficult around the 'tight' Burton buoys with everyone very reluctant to give up any position easily, the main difference to messrs Coultard and co was that everyone in the fleet had the ability to sail away and win the race once in front. In the first race it was John Webster and Eric Ironmonger who won the first beat and never looked back to sail away to a stylish and comfortable win. Second place was held by Martin Goult with pressure being applied all the time by Dave Peacock, Clive Robinson's confrontation with the first mark, gave him a place to hide down the pack, from which there was no recovery and would later prove critical.
In the second race it was Martin Goult and Gordon Russell who led at the first mark and went on to take the race from Clive Robinson. This set things up nicely for the final race with Clive Robinson needing a win to put the pressure on Martin Goult, the speculation in the club house before hand was that if he did not achieve this if would be the first time in history that a 505 event had been held on Burton without Clive winning a single race. History was not to be made with Clive winning despite a 180' wind shift at the end of the race closing the field up. Dave Peacock held on for second to take third overall and a third place by Martin Goult was enough to win the event by having a better discard.
Thanks again to Burton Sailing Club for hosting the event and for Ian Pinnel in providing his expertise and time to run training sessions. The only shame is that there were very few visiting boats taking the opportunity to learn from the UK's and one of the world's leading 505 sailor .
1 Martin Goult / Gordon Russell 2 Clive Robinson / Gary Cawthorne, on equal points 3 John Webster / Eric Ironmonger 4 Dave Peacock / Chris Hewkin 5 Jack Hayhurst / Adrian Coates 6 Richard Sims / Simon Wood 7 John Walker / James Turner
Over the weekend of June the 3rd and 4th a fleet depleted to 18 boats due to a clash with the slightly more exotic draw of a European Cup meeting in Riva came to the line to contest the Stone Open and Short Course Championships. Saturday's weather was sunny with a light sea breeze over a strong spring ebb tide. Clive Robinson and Gary Cawthorn totally dominated with 2 wins from 2 races with Hector Cisneros and Laurence Crispin the only boat closely challenging with a 2, 4.
Sunday however dawned bright but with 12-14 knots of wind from the South West. Race 3 saw Ian Montague and Geoff Kimber move into contention with a win while Robinson posted a 5th with Cisneros finishing 3rd. Race 4 saw Mike Holt and Ian Godfrey start showing some speed, with a win, Robinson and Cisneros still however the pace makers with 3rd and 4th respectively. Holt followed this with a win in race 5 chased all the way by Cisneros in 2nd with Robinson further back down in 6th.
So as usual at Stone it was going to go down to the last race, in fact it went down to the last mark of the last race. Robinson believing that it was only Holt who could beat him sailed him down the fleet on the first beat, going around the windward mark towards the back with Holt second from last, Cisneros was now at the front only to be sent home by the race committee for an OCS leaving the race wide open for Martin Goult and Gordon Russell to win comfortably. Meanwhile Holt was on the comeback moving quickly up the fleet, passing the necessary last 2 boats to move into 2nd at the last leeward mark to win the meeting by 1 point from Cisneros, with Robinson another point back in 3rd.
As ever a well run event both on and off the water with a very good short course format.
1. 8736 Mike Holt / Ian Godfrey 6 6 4 1 1 2 (14) 2. 8679 Hector Cisneros / Lawrence Crispin 2 4 3 4 2 ocs (15) 3. 8676 Clive Robinson / Gary Hawthorn 1 1 5 3 6 6 (16) 4. 8460 Martin Goult / Gordon Russell 5 3 8 2 7 1 (18) 5. 865 Ian Montague / Geoff Kimber 4 rtd 1 7 4 5 (21) 6. 8556 Terry Scutcher / Colin Turner 3 10 7 8 5 3 (26) 7. 8378 Martin Hodgson / Alastair McLeod 8 5 2 12 9 4 (28) 8. 8526 Tim Bird / A George 10 2 6 5 8 8 (29) 9. 8429 Rob Napier / Jonathan Rennie 7 9 12 9 3 7 (35) 10. 8493 Chris Dando / Donald Sloan 12 8 9 6 10 11 (44) 11. 8650 Terry Selfe / Alan Montague 9 7 11 15 15 10 (52) 12. 8726 Martin Stainsby / B Dunnery 15 12 10 11 13 9 (55) 13. 8434 L Fernley / Brett Matthews 14 11 ocs 10 11 12 (58) 14. 8494 Peter Andreae / Rob Stallard 11 13 15 16 14 13 (66) 15. 8745 Chris Pearson / Frank Rainsborough 13 15 14 14 12 14 (67) 16. 8384 Brett Townsend / S Lawrence 16 14 13 13 dnc dnc (75) 17. 7700 Jeremy Sanderson / Paul Barker 17 16 16 rtd 16 15 (80)
6 races was sailed in al kind of conditions, from 5 knots to 25, sun and rain etc, all wery exciting and Schonherr/Friis won in close combat with Rosen/Wenrup and Moller/Bojsen Moller.
Roskilde Sailing Club made an excellent event with free breakfast, lunch and dinner all days, even a motorboat with free beer to the crews after they passed the finishing line was provided. Many clubs can learn something here!!!!!
Sadly the Germans decided to stay home, and missed and great event and some great racing, actually a bit disappointing for us Danes and the Swedes as well, because we often move more than 50% of our active fleet to Germany to make some great racing there and support the German class.
We certainly look forward to go back to Roskilde one day, those folks know how to make a good event.
1 DEN8727 Jorgen Schonherr/Anders Friis 2 SWE8232 Ebbe Rosén/Olle Wenrup 3 DEN8656 Jan Moller/Jacob Bojsen Moller 4 SWE8719 Jacob Lindval/Kalle Byrenius 5 DEN8620 Jan Saugmann/Morten Ramsbuk 6 DEN8474 Per Larsen/Henrik Andersen 7 DEN8622 Tom Bøjland/Jonas Christiansen 8 DEN8377 Anders Hoj Christensen/Peter Hoj Christensen 9 DEN8365 Martin Friederichsen/Jens Henrik Haahr 10 DEN8581 Jon Andersen/Lasse Andreasen
1 Moller, Jan/Moller, J. DEN8656 4 4 1 2 1 3 2 2 Smithwhite, David/Fulcher, Neil GBR8555 2 1 2 5 2 dsq 4 3 Görge, Martin/Görge, Rainer GER8670 1 5 dsq 1 5 5 1 4 Böhm, Stefan/Roos, Gerald GER8746 6 2 3 8 3 1 9 5 Schönherr, Jörgen/Kaempe, Anders DEN8728 3 16 5 3 8 2 10 6 Filimonow, Dirk/Stöckmann, Lars GER8720 5 6 6 6 6 ocs 3 7 Ralston, Vernon/Spratt, Simon GBR8741 8 10 4 7 4 4 5 8 de Cerjat, Jean-Francois/Jacot, Philippe SUI8729 7 3 24 9 17 20 8 9 Achterberg, F/Achterberg, A GER8580 12 9 14 dnc 11 15 6 10 Koedilen, S./Hobusch, Peter GER8590 14 8 9 19 12 13 12 11 Jetschke, Mathias/Weishaupt, Jens GER8563 dnc 18 8 15 10 7 14 12 Kluck, Adalbert/Schmidt, Gerhard GER8505 17 12 25 11 16 9 11 13 Walters, Charles/Diebitsch, Christian GBR8568 10 13 7 17 26 16 dnc 14 Roos, Ronald/Linnemann, Gerd GER8649 dnc dnc 16 4 7 6 7 15 Pluss, Marcel/Durr, Yvo SUI8426 13 11 23 12 19 17 24 16 Cedric, B./Veli, M. SUI8543 15 dnc 20 28 14 14 13 17 Stückl, Wolfgang/Weigelt, Frank GER8633 20 19 34 14 9 11 dnc 18 Häger, Jörg/Drewes, Thorsten GER8730 21 20 15 18 22 12 dnc 19 Peacock, David/Hewkin, Chris GBR8495 11 7 11 dnc 18 8 dnc 20 Scheiber, C./Lätzsch, Uwe GER8658 16 15 17 21 28 23 18 21 Wedge, Martin/Masterman, Bill GBR8708 dnc 27 13 10 25 19 dsq 22 Andersen, Jon/Andreasen, Lasse DEN8581 19 21 12 16 dnc 33 16 23 Schollmayer, Stefan/Sanguino, Francisco GER8642 18 17 21 dnc 21 24 20 24 Seikel, Martin/Becker, Norbert GER8721 22 22 19 20 24 22 dnc 25 Betschen, Rene/Ducommun, P. SUI8569 dnc dnc 10 13 15 21 23 26 Wisolek, Robert/Paulzen, Oliver GER8519 23 23 28 23 dnc 30 15 27 Doerenbecher, F/Doerenbecher, A FRA8541 dnc 32 18 31 23 26 17 28 Chapatte, Florent/Froideveaux, M. SUI8016 28 25 33 24 31 27 21 29 Rix, Hans-Heinrich/Achenbach, Steffen GER8744 9 14 dnc dnc 20 10 dnc 30 Seifert, Wolfgang/Daferner, Peter GER8562 26 30 29 22 33 28 dnc 31 Kowalzig, Bernd/Ellerbeck, Ulrich GER8607 33 28 35 36 27 40 19 32 Brasey, Alain/Burri, Stephan SUI8096 31 34 38 27 34 38 22 33 Gericke, Markus/Waser, Beat SUI8586 24 31 26 32 40 35 dnc 34 Völckner, Nicolai/Dehne, Lars GER8686 29 dnc 22 dnc 13 18 dnc 35 Guibbal, Jean Louis/Guibbal, Mat FRA8521 27 29 36 29 38 37 dnc 36 Schultz, Henrik/Ziems, Ute GER8539 38 37 31 26 32 34 dnc 37 De Restrepo, Guy/Beltzung, Alain FRA7940 30 26 dnc 25 37 32 dnc 38 Dörr, Sebastian Edzard GER8652 35 24 42 dnc 30 29 dnc 39 Böckle, Günther/Heimburger, Frank GER8691 34 36 39 33 36 39 dnc 40 Holm, Thorge/Holm, Nils GER8108 32 33 dnc dnc 41 41 25 41 Berry, Jim/Berry, Richard GBR8678 25 dnc 32 dnc 43 31 dnc 42 Eckel, Martin/Quadfass, Tobias GER8413 36 35 30 37 dnc dnf dnc 43 Berggren, Göran/Schuster, Christian SWE8475 37 dnc 41 39 42 36 dnc 44 Mühlbauer, Markus/Stenger, Angela GER8671 dnc dnc dnc 35 29 25 dnc 45 Dasenbrock, Norbert/Meier, Sven GER8470 dnc dnc 27 30 35 dnf dnc 46 Burghard, Nils/Thoralf, GreGER GER7970 39 dnc 40 38 45 43 dnc 47 Kraft, Oliver/Goggel, Andreas GER8473 dnc dnc 37 34 39 42 dnc 48 Leveque, M./Evy, J. FRA8140 41 39 dnc dnc 44 44 dnc 49 Handel, G. Rachert GER4930 40 38 dnc dnc dnc dnf dnc 50 Heimbeck, Peter/Heimbeck, T. GER7661 dnc 40 43 dnc dnc dnf dnc
Ian Pinnel asks:
We have an entry for Abersoch from Patrick McCosh (Zimbabwe) but he needs to borrow or charter a boat. You may remember him. He has 8445, Andy Williams' old boat, in Zimbabwe. He finished 30's in Quiberon. He his the best Zim/South African sailor (he is English). He has just bought a new suit of sails so he's just looking for hull & rig.
If anyone is willing to oblige, please contact Ian Pinnell at pinbax@skynet.co.uk or me at rob.napier@clara.net.