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With a turn-out of 32 entries we've had one of the best day's racing I can remember for quite some time. I'd like to repeat what I said at the prize giving in that we're very grateful for all the travellers who made there way over to us and made the event such a success.

We've been busy beavering away afterwards to get the results up on our website. You can follow the link: http://www.swsc.org.uk/sail/results/2011-sprint15.htm to see where you came and if you didn't come, see what you missed.

Once result was read-out incorrectly at the prize-giving. Jon Finch was actually placed 14th and not 20th as announced.

The race report and photos are currently in the process of being sent in to me and will be available shortly.

Thanks once again.

Karl Pountney
Vice Commodore, Stewartby Water Sports Club - Sailing Section.
Sprint 15, 1494.

32 entries - fantastic. A new record and 12 from the home club. Well done to all concerned.
Cheers
Bob
PS Quick results too!
PPS I see that Erling was 21st

The on the water photography didn't work-out too well today, however a small number of shots are now available on the SWSC Website.

Link: http://www.swsc.org.uk/gallery/?album=2 ... 15WinterTT
Photographs courtesy and copyright of Steve Ivory c/o Stewartby Water Sports Club.

A big THANK YOU to all at Stewartby for hosting a record breaking event to kick-off the winter series. It was a great day out and the hospitality was superb. And the beers came in very useful later on at our village bonfire. It was good to see one or two new faces, in particular, David and Jonathan Lee sailing two-up in their first ever event. Is this another first for the Class? - a two-up boat in the winter series.
I did feel somewhat 'on the ropes' in the first round of the Carsington/Draycote inter-club Winter TT challenge and was severely missing my clubmates-Ray, Robert and Robin. On the face of the results, it looked as though it had been a resounding victory for The James Gang and I'd been well and truly bushwhacked. BUT-on closer examination of the rules, the actual result may not be quite what it seemed. Tucked away in the lesser known and, up to now, unused rules, I found the 'MAST' clause which contains a sub-clause under the heading 'CRAP'. Without going in to a lot of detail, this broadly states that points accrued are averaged out and that when the odds are at least 3:1, the largest team have to each carry additional average penalty points equivalent to the whole number of competitors from each team taking part. (For the record, the odds at Stewartby were actually 4:1). When this is all put in to the (special) software for calculation, it shows that, the final tally was Carsington:32 points - Draycote 32.75 points. I should just confirm that the low points scoring system has still been rigorously applied in the calculations. So then - a victory for Carsington albeit by the narrowest of margins. But a victory is a victory
(For those not familiar with the lesser known details of the competition rules, 'MAST' is 'Manufacture A Spurious Technicality' and 'CRAP' is 'Consequential Re-allocation of Average Points)
Looking forward to the next round
Cheers and Beers

As George says, Thank You Stewartby and all that helped the event happen.

Our roving reporter, Alan HW took lots of pictures, some from the water, some from the land.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/pict ... wartby.php

If anybody wants an original please let me know.

KarlPountney wrote:The on the water photography didn't work-out too well today, however a small number of shots are now available on the SWSC Website.

Link: http://www.swsc.org.uk/gallery/?album=2 ... 15WinterTT
Photographs courtesy and copyright of Steve Ivory c/o Stewartby Water Sports Club.

Liam wrote:Our roving reporter, Alan HW took lots of pictures, some from the water, some from the land.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/pict ... wartby.php

If anybody wants an original please let me know.

Liam, thanks for these. I'm hoping that Alan won't mind, but I've picked out one of the close-ups for the Y&Y report. I'll see that he gets the appropriate photo-credit on their website.


Regards


Karl

KarlPountney wrote:

Liam wrote:Our roving reporter, Alan HW took lots of pictures, some from the water, some from the land.

http://www.shanklinsailingclub.com/pict ... wartby.php

If anybody wants an original please let me know.

Liam, thanks for these. I'm hoping that Alan won't mind, but I've picked out one of the close-ups for the Y&Y report. I'll see that he gets the appropriate photo-credit on their website.


Regards


Karl

I see that the report is on the Y&Y website already. Nice job.
Cheers
Bob
PS with an attendance of 32 I'm impressed that you had enough 6 packs to go 'round. I bet there was a last minute dash to Tesco before the prizegiving

Here is the link.......

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=160277

Cheers
Bob