Results / Winter Championships Leigh & Lowton SC - 17/03/2012
The Vareo came of age with their first National Championships on the sea
and real competition throughout the fleet. 21 Vareo's made the trip to
Lee On Solent for three days of racing for the GUL National Championships
in varied conditions, sharing the course with 22 RS300's. Saturday saw a
force 2 from the south west. Sunday was a glorious day with an easterly
building to a good froce 4 by the end with lovely sunshine with the Vareo
showing they are such a good performer down wind. . Monday was grey with
a force 3 from the north off the shore giving very patchy conditions in
the race area. Race Officers Graham Child and Keith Rogers made excellent
use of the conditions and turned races around smartly. Varoes are now
spreading wide and far as shown by boats making the long trip from
Scotland, Filey and Skipton.
The varied wind conditions had no affect on Jon Lewis; fresh from 4th
place overall at the GUL RS200 Nationals he won every race leading round
six out of seven first windward marks. He had really worked out how to
control the leach up wind to produce speed through the Lee chop so he
powered away from the fleet after a series of immaculate starts. But his
real secret was to power the boat up down wind to gain speed before
looking for depth. In the first six races the only person who looked like
beating him to the first mark was Luke Fisher in race 5. In the final
race Robin Sanders, Richard Kemp Salt and Pete Vincent did lead Lewis
round the first mark. Vincent even led Lewis round the first leeward mark
and had the cheek to cover him up the second beat before Lewis pulled
clear on the second run.
Behind Lewis the racing was very tight with Luke Fisher just winning the
fight for second overall by a point from Carl Whitehead. Luke was more
consistent and a real force up wind; Carl at times was blisteringly quick
downwind with Richard Oliver in fourth never far behind. Martin Barrett
scored 5th overall and was also first Master. Jonathan Briggs
(Winsford), Richard Kemp Salt (Brightlingsea), Dave Machin ( Netley) and
Chris Froelcih (Burghfield) all featured well at times to show that the
overall standard is now improving.
With Jon Lewis and Pete Vincent running a coaching morning and much free
flow of information on how to control the rig and sail the boat the vast
majority left Lee on Solent not only having had three days great sailing
but also have gained a lot of very useful information.
LEE ON THE SOLENT S.C.
GUL R.S. VAREO NATIONALS
Sailed: 7
Discards: 1
Ratings: None
GUL R.S. VAREO NATIONALS
Sailed: 7
Discards: 1
Ratings: None
Pos | Boat Name | Class | Sail No | Helm | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | Pts | Notes |
1st | Wot no Milly | Vareo | 156 | Jonathan Lewis | Burghfield S.C. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
2nd | Vareous ventures | Vareo | 210 | Luke Fisher | Milton Keynes S.C. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 22 | ||
3rd | D'oh | Vareo | 215 | Carl Whitehead | Filey S.C. | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 23 | ||
4th | Vareo | 240 | Richard Oliver | Milton Keynes S.C. | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 25 | |||
5th | Vareo | 142 | Martin Barrett | Craven S.C. | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 30 | Master | ||
6th | Vareo | 287 | Richard Kemps-salt | Brightlingsea S.C. | 5 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 35 | Master | ||
7th | Vareo | 260 | Jonathan Briggs | Winsford Flash | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 43 | Master | ||
8th | Vareo | 206 | David Machin | Netley S.C. | 10 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 44 | |||
9th | Vareo | 312 | Peter Vincent | Bristol Corinthian S.C. | 11 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 52 | |||
10th | Vareo | 162 | Christopher Froelich | Burghfield S.C. | 10 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 55 | Master | ||
11th | Vareo | 239 | John Lapes | Bristol Corinthian S.C. | 6 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 61 | |||
12th | Vareo | 261 | Tim Greenwood | Chew Valley S.C. | 7 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 66 | |||
13th | Vareo | 216 | Kevin Jones | Locks S.C. | 13 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 71 | |||
14th | Josephine 2 | Vareo | 306 | Steve Mummery | Lee on the Solent S.C. | 13 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 75 | ||
15th | Vareo | 221 | Robin Sanders | Chase S.C. | 14 | 14 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 76 | |||
16th | Vareo | 305 | Michael Harker | Eastbourne Sovereign S.C. | 9 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 82 | |||
17th | C'est se bon | Vareo | 185 | Robbie Briggs | Prestwick | 18 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 96 | ||
18th | Vareo | 179 | Eddie Mcdonald | Whitefriars S.C. | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 16 | 101 | Master | ||
19th | Vareo | 188 | Tony Stephenson | Stewartby water S.C. | 17 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 19 | DNC | 110 | |||
20th | Vareo | 208 | Chris Moore | Redesmere S.C. | 15 | 15 | DNC | DNC | DNC | DNC | 114 |