Dartful Codger II wrote:
The second Dart 15 Winter TT event took place on Saturday 8th December at Beaver S.C. near Doncaster, with 13 entries arriving to sail two races in a light 10 knot Southerly breeze .
The first race kicked off around 11.15 a.m. and it was Stuart Snell from Grafham who took an early lead after a well-timed port end start, followed by local ex. National champion John Postlethwaite, Bob Carter from Grafham and Steve Sawford from Rutland. Although several challenges were made during the race, Snell opened up an increasing gap to win by a large margin at the end, and the following boats finished in the same order .
The wind direction changed slightly for the afternoon race, so a revised course was set which added a couple of short runs to the proceedings . This time it was Steve Sawford who shot out of the starting gate to give a similar performance to Snell, and won by almost a full leg in the end . Behind, Postlethwaite was up there again, but ultimately appeared to pay penance for his extra kilos , and both Snell and Carter got past in the fickle breeze, which played tricks on many of the other entries, so they finished in that order .
Stuart Snell therefore deservedly won the overall event, and the fleet now look forward to the next meeting at Rutland in January .
Overall Results:-
1st Stuart Snell 1896 (Grafham W.S.C)
2nd Steve Sawford 1733 (Rutland S.C)
3rd JohnPostlethwaite 1769 (Beaver S.C)
4th Bob Carter 1945 (Grafham W.S.C)
5th Steve Hanby 1869 (Beaver S.C)
6th Austin Flather 1808 (Beaver S.C)
7th Barrie Hoggard 1815 (Beaver S.C)
8th Henry Clark 1911 (Swanage S.C)
9th Richard Hanby 1451 (Beaver S.C)
10th Paul Smith 1900 (Beaver S.C)
11th Ron Sawford 1784 (Rutland S.C)
12th Elliott Gill 1543 (Beaver S.C)
13th Ian Smith 1955 (Grimwith S.C)
