National Twelve Vintage Wing

Witchcraft Bailer Trophy Series – Final Result

The final weekend of the six-meeting Series, involving consecutive meetings at Ripon S.C. and Yeadon S.C., produced an unexpected result and a welcome new winner. Before this weekend there were three qualifiers, of whom Brian Herring and Ken Goddard were first and second repectively. At Ripon and Yeadon the third qualifier, Ian Purkis of Yorkshire Ouse S.C. was the only entrant to sail a Vintage Twelve. (Brian elected to sail his Design 8 and Ken was unable to attend; no other local clinker boat took part). So Ian, crewed by Margaret Overend, sailing a Proctor Mk.6 design, "Mock Turtle", N.1620, picked up the Vintage Prize at both events and on aggregate, the Series prize as well. Congratulations! Ian illustrated the benefit of persevering and sailed in 5 meetings in the Series. Ken sailed four and Brian three. Seventeen helms sailed in the series. It is being considered that, in conjunction with a possible change of one of the venues, the method of qualifying next year may be adjusted to attract more qualifiers.

Witchcraft Bailer	Trophy	2001
			Yorkshire	Earlswood	Northants.	Derwent	Ripon S.C.	Yeadon	Qualifiers	Witchcraft
			Ouse S.C.	Lakes S.C.	Inlands	Reservoir		Sailing C.	Total.Best	Bailer
			June 2& 3	June 30	July14	Sept.1	Oct.6	Oct.7	3 to count	Placings
Helmsperson	Boat Name	Sail No.
P.David	Little Meg	2545	3/4
V.Phillips	Invasion II	2531	2
B.Herring	Lets Go	1673	3	2=	2				7	2nd
N.McInnes	Triarda *	2266	4
K.Goddard	Duodecimal	2300	5	2=	3	5			10	3rd
I.Purkis	Mock Turtle	1620	6	6	4		3/4	3/4	5+1/2	1st
D.Weir	Weirdstone	2673		3/4
Mrs S. Weir	Challenger	2695		2=
J.Pearson	Dinsdale	2632		5
R.Lewis	Arfabita	2476		7
R.Jukes	Damp Squib	1995		8
D.Croft	Lysistrata	2304			3/4
H.Chadwick	Triarda *	2266				3/4
P.Roe	Zuma	2429				2
H.Elcock	Natl. Panic	1684				3
T.Hancock	Rum Runner	2033				4
K.Millburn	Avocet	1937				6

K.Goddard

Vintage Wing Representative