Arran Holman - Crispin Beaumont of Hollowell and Bartley win 2011 RS Feva End of Season Championship
After an impressive show of their sailing skills at the 2011 RS Feva End of Season Championship, Arran Holman and Crispin Beaumont representing Hollowell Sailing Club and Bartley Sailing Club respectively, easily managed to overtake the RS Feva fleet and
claim the title with 10 points after five races, which included a discard.
The event was organised and hosted by Queen Mary Sailing Club, where the pair sailed perfectly to hit the top podium spot. Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Max Clapp and Sally Clapp succeeded in clicking the second position with 16 points, while Anna Prescott
and Jess Eales had a bit of low scores in the first day’s races but they sprang up on Day 2 and with the help of two bullets, they clinched third place.
Overall result board at the conclusion of the event is as follows:
1. 6 Hollowell SC / Bartley SC, Arran HOLMAN, Crispin BEAUMONT 1, 1, 7, (95 BFD), 1 = 10 points
2. 4032 Royal Southern YC, Max CLAPP, Sally CLAPP 3, 5, 3, (95 BFD), 5 = 16 points
3. 4355 HISC / Lymington Town SC / Royal Lym. YC, Anna PRESCOTT, Jess EALES (17), 13, 1, 1, 7 = 22 points
4. 4344 Burnham SC, Chay TAYLOR, Stirling TAYLOR 7, (12), 4, 6, 6 = 23 points
5. 4648 Royal Lymington YC, Jenny CROPLEY, PIPPA CROPLEY 9, 9, (27), 3, 4 = 25 points
6. 2577 Wraysbury Lake SC, Jenny SMALLWOOD, Jamie WEBB 14, 4, 2, 8, (34) = 28 points
7. 4332 Hayling Island SC, Elliott WELLS, Jake TODD 5, 11, 10, (15), 2 = 28 points
8. 3105 Hayling Island SC / Burghfield SC, Tom DARLING, Will DOLIN 10, 2, (21), 2, 15 = 29 points
9. 4627 Burnham SC, James HUTTON-PENMAN, Thomas JAYASEKARA 8, (14), 8, 12, 11 = 39 points
10. 3750 Hayling Island SC, Jamie SMITH, David BRAND 4, 6, 19, (95 BFD), 12 = 41 points
RS Feva participants started sailing under glassy calm weather conditions at QMSC, hoping for the wind to build up soon and surround them. A four-knot shifty breeze filled in along with a black cloud that came in slowly after one hour of waiting on Day 1.
Second day’s racing began with a six knots breeze under warm sunshine which was enough to have some nice sailing.
The RS Feva UK 'End of Season' Championship at Queen Mary SC featured a 92-boat fleet, with the highest number of boats ever for an RS Feva GP event in UK. In the third qualifier, 15 new entries joined 10 other boats which sailed in one event, 36 boats which
competed in two events, and 44 boats which made their run in all three events of the Worlds Qualification Series.
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