![]() ![]() Rapaura Springs Wine Day started a little slower than the others Day 4 - Rapaura Springs Wine Day - started a little slower than the last few days with a few sore heads in the boat park after an absolutely huge party the night before. James Peters and Maddy Anderson win with a race to spare Although the fleet was held ashore for an hour or so to await a promising forecast, sailors were encouraged to get boats to the beach to ensure the best chance of getting racing ASAP. That forecast didn't put off a healthy fleet of 23 boats. Red frost line river first run series#Posted on RS200 SW Ugly Tour Open at ExeĪ light forecast showed just a glimmer of hope for the penultimate event in the series A light forecast showed just a glimmer of hope, that the RS200 fleet would get enough wind for the penultimate event of the SW Ugly tour sponsored by Westcountry Boat Repairs at Exmouth. The Devon weather played its part brilliantly in welcoming the visitors The penultimate event on the 2021 Rooster West Country Boat Repairs Southern Tour took place at Exe Sailing club last Saturday where the 200s joined the 400s for a one day Open. Posted on 13 Aug RS400 Southern Tour at Exe Sailing Club Related Articles Comet Trio National Championships at ExeĪ repeat of last year's points situation in the top three Three days of racing for the 26 Comet Trio Sailors spilt between the Mark 1 and Mark 2 fleets at Exe. Thanks to BYC for hosting the dinner and dealing with the huge crowd of competitors for the evening. In Fast class, Juno (George Rock-Evans) came second and Red Fox (Colin Leach) third. Second in Club class was Shalom (Peter Fellowes) and third Lucina (Tom Dunstan). Prizes were presented by James Turl the winner of the Club class being Roobella, Mark (Spoons) Jenkins sailing single-handed, and in the Fast class, Snow Storm, Chris Clarance of Teignmouth. ![]() The wide variety of competitors was noted, with many boats having small children in the crew, others having visitors from the Antipodes and a few having one adult and a couple of young teenagers onboard.īoats ranged from small open catamarans and gaffers to large 45ft racing yachts, but all had greatly enjoyed racing in the big fleet and the sociable atmosphere of the pontoon gathering post-race. Yet again the event had run without any cancellation due to weather and arrived in Brixham in sunshine.Īlmost every club from Brixham to the Axe was represented and the newcomers from TCYC were well represented at the front of the fleet. Race organiser, Rex Frost commented that this was almost a record entry with 54 boats (and 47 finishers). The reception at BYC, sponsored by Simon Turl Mooring Services was extremely well attended and fun was had highlighting the various nonsenses of the day. With the Brixham finish line obscured by a dinghy training fleet there was place changing till the end, but everyone one agreed it was a great day of sailing and good competition for all. ![]() The run across the bay saw sails being reefed and the only place changes were when the bigger boats got into their stride, while some confusion over the Goodrington mark robbed Jabberwocky (Robin Adams) of precious seconds and allowed Red Fox and Jaldi (Mary Sturgess) to catch up again. Gracie Girl (Andy Bailey) was seen making great strides to close the gap only to fall back when the wind shifted and in between them Roobella (Mark Jenkins) in the club class, made steady progress despite sailing single handed in 20kt gusts. Gruffalo (Ann Way) and Electra (Sue Frost) vied for being ahead of each other at the Sewer buoy and only some judicious tacking got Electra back in front. In the next hour with lots of wind shifts and lifts, places changed quickly, with Exeat (Dave Bunting) being almost at the front at one time then Jammin (Steve Best) getting going again and Red Fox (Colin Leach) gaining and losing for no obvious reason. It looked as if the inshore group would have the advantage as the wind lifted them toward Teignmouth, but then it died and the other batch came in fast. The inshore optimists went west and the rest went out to sea. Half an hour later the Fast class started with a fair breeze and the fleet split as usual. At the signal, the wind died, but five minutes later the breeze filled in and the class moved off, past the Exmouth lifeboat towards Brixham. The day of the ESC organised race dawned calm and Race Officer Richard Linsdale wisely set a short course for the Club class. River Exe Champagne Challenge 2018 © Sarah Turl ![]()
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