The National 12 ‘Gill’ series is drawing to a close for 2010 and the
penultimate meeting was held at Ripon Sailing Club on Saturday 2 October
2010. The nineteen competitors were greeted with a glassy lake on
arrival but the breeze kicked in right on cue and held throughout the
day, which was bright and sunny – unlike Friday or Sunday!
The first race saw Jon Ibbotson and Charlotte Stewart claim line honours
with Christian Day and Sophie Richards battling with Steve Sallis and
Stephanie Ricketts throughout the race to finish in that order.
Bernard and Ellie Clark sailed their newly acquired D8 into 4th place,
with Nick and Gerald Copsey in 5th.
The second race followed the same pattern as the first for the first 3
places, with a short start line making for some interesting shuffling
about on the first beat. Philip and Helen David showed that a well
sailed Vintage design can still drop newer designs for dead in the right
conditions to take 4th place, and Mark and Emma Simpson had their best
race of the day to finish 5th.
The final race saw Clark and Clark over the line, which they had to work
hard to pull back. Ibbotson and Stewart worked hard to claw their
way to the front of the fleet, followed home by Day/Richards and
Sallis/Ricketts. The Copseys took 4th place and the Davids were
5th.
There was close racing throughout the fleet, and prizes of ‘Yorkshire
food goodies’ were presented to the first 5 boats in the double
bottomed, Admiral’s Cup and Vintage fleets.
Overall Places
1st Jon
Ibbotson and Charlotte Stewart, OCCS
2nd
Christian Richards and Sophie Richards, Leigh and Lowton SC
3rd Steve
Sallis and Stephanie Ricketts, Hykeham SC/Ripon SC
4th Nick and
Gerald Copsey, Ely SC (First Admirals Cup boat)
5th Philip
and Helen David, Yorkshire Ouse SC (First Vintage boat)
6th Bernard
and Ellie Clark, Ripon SC
