Yeadon Open Meeting

Twenty two National Twelves took to the water at Yeadon Sailing Club on Sunday the 8th October. This was the second day of the combined ANEYC meeting held in conjunction with Ripon Sailing Club and the continuation of the Northern area celebrations for the seventieth anniversary of the class. Fortunately for so many boats on a small water the conditions were benign compared to the previous day at Ripon.

Race one started on a well-contested start line and immediately Graham and Zoe Camm had to take penalty turns, however this made little difference to the result as they sailed through the fleet and into an impressive lead. Second were Philip and Helen David with John and Alison Cheetham third and Mark and Emma Simpson fourth.

After the usual excellent Yeadon lunch the second race was held in bright sunshine, after one general recall the fleet got away with Philip and Helen pressing Graham and Zoe for the first two laps until Graham and Zoe sailed clear. The battle for third was resolved only yards from the finish when John and Alison came out on top of a close tacking battle with Mark and Emma.

For race three the wind moved towards the east and became light and shifty. Graham and Zoe having won the meeting opted to sail Howard Chadwicks beautifully restored N2. Philip and Helen led initially followed by Bernard Clark and Philip Benn in a Cheshire Cat and John and Alison. However a tricky mark rounding allowed Bernard through into first followed by Brian Herring and Ros Stevenson in the vintage N1673. John and Alison managed to overall Philip and Helen to finish third, however Bernards win gave him third place overall. Graham and Zoe remarkably sailed N2 into seventh place, proving that, to quote Howard Chadwick, the way to speed up an old boat is to fit a twin Camm engine.

Results
3492 Graham Camm Zoe Camm Burghfield 2 1
3217 Philp David Helen David YOSC 4 2
3220 Bernard Clark Philip Benn YOSC/Ripon 6 3
3209 John Cheetham Alison Cheetham Yeadon 6 4
3472 Mark Simpson Emma Simpson Scaling Dam 8 5
1673 Brian Herring Roz Stevenson Winsford Flash 9 6 vintage
3162 John Brookes James Brokes Tynemouth 11 7
2531 Vince Phillips Alex Phillips YOSC 14 8 vintage