National 12 events 2006

Untitled Document Series Results:

Series, (e) Eastern, (m) Midlands, (n) Northern, (s) Scotland, (sw) South West, (t) Thames, (v) Vintage

Untitled Document

Date	Venue
January
1^st	Grafham Water S.C.
7^th	Queen Mary S.C.
8^th	Yorkshire Ouse S.C.
28^th	Northampton S.C.
29^th	Ranelagh S.C.
February
4^th & 5^th	Rutland S.C.
18^th	Royal Harwich Y.C.
19^th	Royal Harwich Y.C.
March
4^th & 5th	Alexandra Palace
26^th	Tynemouth S.C.
26^th	Burghfield S.C.
April
1^st & 2^nd	Bristol Corinthian
8^th	Avon S.C.
9^th	Waveney & Oulton Broad
15^th – 17^th	Waldringfield S.C.
22^nd	Notts. County S.C.
30^th	Annandale S.C.
29^th – 1^st	Salcombe Y.C.
May
6^th – 7th	Trent Valley S.C.
13^th & 14^th	Weston S.C.
14^th	Yorkshire Dales S.C.
20^th	Scaling Dam SC (Coaching)
20^th	Desborough S.C. (Coaching)
21^st	Desborough S.C.
27^th – 29^th	Northampton
June
3^rd	Blithfield S.C. - CANCELLED
10^th – 11^th	Royal Harwich Y.C.
10^th & 11^th	Yorkshire Ouse S.C.
17^th	Trent Valley S.C. (Coaching)
24^th	Chipstead S.C.
25^th	Tynemouth S.C.
24^th & 25^th	Aldeburgh Y.C.
25^thJune	Ranelagh S.C.
July
1^st	Spinnaker S.C.
8^th & 9^th	Filey S.C.
15^th & 16^th	Frensham Pond S.C.
15^th & 16^th	Thorpe Bay Y.C.
22^nd – 29^th	North West Norfolk Week
22^nd	Earlswood Lakes S.C.
August
5^th – 6^th	Norfolk Broads Y.C.
5^th – 13^th	Bassenthwaite S.C.
7^th – 11^th	Salcombe Y.C.
13^th – 18^th	Salcombe Y.C.
19^th – 25^th	BURTON WEEK! Porthpean S.C.
26^th – 27^th	East Lothian Y.C. (N.O.R.)
27^th – 28^th	Royal Harwich Y.C.
29^th – 1^st	Royal Harwich Y.C.
September
2^nd	Derwent Reservoir S.C.
9^th & 10^th	Derwent Reservoir - Sunday Only
16^th & 17^th	Starcross S.C.
23^rd	Trent Valley S.C.
16^th & 17^th	Inverkip Y.C. NEW DATE!
24^th	Henley S.C.
30^th & 1^st	Scaling Dam S.C. write up & results
October
7^th	Ripon S.C.
8^th	Yeadon S.C.
14^th	Oulton Mere
15^th	Twickenham Y.C.
21^st &22^nd	Salcombe Y.C.
28^th	Grafham Water S.C.
November
18th	Venue: Trent Valley
19^th	Tynemouth S.C.
25^th	Venue: Hampton, London
December
2^nd	Yorkshire Ouse S.C.
26^th	Royal Harwich Y.C.
7^th Jan ‘07	Yorkshire Ouse S.C.

70th Regatta - Grand Pursuit Race

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After some careful handicap calculation, which included some "special" personal handicaps for certain speedy members of the fleet, the Grand Pursuit race started on the Bank Holiday Monday in a good force 4, using the whole length of Pitsford reservoir for the course. There was a total of 21 minutes between the first starter (N153, first winner of the Burton Cup) and the last starter (N3501, Tom Stewart, multiple winner of the Burton). The sight of nearly 70 National 12s on the water was spectacular, ranging from lovingly varnished clinker vintage boats to the latest gleaming carbon fibre racing machines.

N153 "Witch", the oldest boat in the fleet, helmed by the oldest helm in the fleet, 70-something Brian Miatt, kept the lead for the first 55 minutes of the 2 hour race.

After some squally weather, which caused some spectacular capsizing down the reaches by some of the chasing boats, she was gradually overhauled by another vintage boat, N1657, sailed by father-son team Brian & George Kitchin. Brian & George kept the lead for a further 20 minutes before being overtaken by Nigel Waller in N3012 "Punkarella", who went on to retain the lead to the end. Nigel designed and built Punkarella in 1977 and sailed her to victory in the Burton Cup in 1978. Prior to the weekend, Nigel had been desperately looking for Punkarella in order to sail her at the anniversary regatta and eventually located her in a chicken shed in Wales. He retrieved her and spent Sunday tuning her to perfection. In second place was Admirals Cupper "Rebel", sailed by father-daughter team John & Alison Cheetham. Ultra-modern double-bottomed "Monkey Business", sailed by Jon Ibbotson & Charlotte Stewart, managed to overcome their 18 minute handicap to take third place, with Brian & George Kitchin managing to hang on to fourth place.

With two Admirals' Cup, one vintage and one double bottomed boat in the top 4 spots, the handicapping proved to be just about right for the conditions and a great time was had by all.

70 years of development, 12 feet of perfection.

Place	Boat	Helm	Crew
1	3012	Nigel Waller	Tom Barford	* 1st non double bottom
2	3209	John Cheetham	Alison Cheetham
3	3494	Jon Ibbotson	Charlotte Stewart	* 1st Double Bottom
4	1657	Brian Kitchin	George Kitchin	* 1st Vintage
5	3491	Kevin Iles	Lindsay Iles
6	3362	Chris Edwards	Alison Edwards
7	3251	Paul Pelling	Hester Pelling
8	2531	Vince Phillips	Fiona Phillips
9	3287	Gerry Ledger	Lesley Iles
10	3468	Fran Gifford	Jane Wade
11	3441	Ian Gore	Alex Gore
12	3306	Mike Raine	Jane Hill
13	3427	Nigel Playford	Emma Wynne
14	3483	Jon Brown	George Hand
15	3501	Tom Stewart	Liz Ross
16	3492X	Ian Sharp	Ellie Martin
17	3216	Neil McInnes	Katie McInnes
18	3455	Caroline Martin	Andy Douglas
19	2266	Howard Chadwick	Sarah Chadwick
20	3203	Tim Gray	Wendy Gray
21	3484	Anthony Gifford	Jo Gifford
22	3469	John Sears	Lydia Wood
23	3276	Roger Le-Pla
24	3450	Richard Williams	Stella Brown
25	3239	Peter Chignell	Sue Roberts
26	3477	Bruce Johnson	Claire Johnson
27	3373	Steve Norbury	Andy Hill
28	3502	Dave Peacock	Trisha Wood
29	3473	John Meadowcroft	Katy Meadowcroft
30	3365	Jerry Garner	Margaret Garner
31	2399	Graham Camm	Zoe Ballantyne
32	1153	Howard Steavenson	Phillip Steavenson
33	3485	Gavin Willis	Jasmine Willis
34	3382	Andy Dale	Claire Pickett
35	3430	Nigel Goodhew	Tim Goodhew
36	3492	George Rowland	Chris Rowland
37	3471	Sarah Edwards	Kate Edwards
38	3490	Nigel May	Guy Pelling
39	3437	Derek Mayhew	Hazel Mayhew
40	153	Brian Miatt	Margaret Purkis
41	3470	Simon Walworth
42	3428	Tony Millichope	Anne Millichope
43	3423	Rebecca Johnson	Lawrence Walker
44	1620	Ian Purkis	Yvonne McInnes

Photos: Kevan Bloor

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