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Noble Marine RS100 Nationals at Paignton Sailing Club - Day 2

by Paul Childs 4 Jun 2012 13:15 UTC 2-5 June 2012

After an excellent morning ‘legends seminar’ on downwind sailing by Huw Powell. The fleet blasted off the beach, kites pulling and grins everywhere to the start line for day 2 of the RS100 nationals.

The fleet were eager to get off the line and pushed it hard. To much disbelief there was only one person over and the rest of the fleet stormed up the first beat pushing their bodies to the maximum in the 18 knots of breeze. Simon ‘I don’t do the first day’ Childs smashed the first beat, powering along to take first place over Paul Childs with Huw Powell closely taking third from local hero Chris Cunningham.

S Childs, worried about the blast to the leeward mark was smoked by P Childs in the battle of the pink kites down the first run. Cunningham powered into the pack of port boats at the leeward gate on starboard, causing carnage and a few swims.

Two more epic laps ensued with thrills, spills and a lot of swimming resulting due to the increasing wind. On the final lap 33knots was recorded on the committee boat, which may explain the most spectacular pitchpole by Alex Morrison. Throwing away a potential 2nd place that he had in the bag until the last run.

Neal Freeman came storming through the fleet after a poor start to take second place with S Childs 3rd. P Childs held his nerve to take the win.

After the fleet finished the wind really picked up and the PRO sent the boats ashore, to much relief of many competitors. The top of the fleet is not particularly close with Freeman on 6 points, Powell and Childs joint on 8 and Hywel Roberts lurking on 12.

Tonight brings the highly anticipated RS100 crazy golf championships, where Al Hall and Chris O’Neill are quietly confident that they are quietly confident. O’Neill has been quoted as saying ‘The pars will come!!’

Results after Day 2:

PosRigSail NoHelmR1R2R3Pts
1st8.4183Neal Freeman1326
2nd10.2410Paul Childs72110
3rd10.2240Huw Powell24410
4th8.4181Hywel Roberts31812
5th10.2131Alex Morrison4101428
6th10.2393Sam Vaughn881329
7th8.4321Giles Chipperfield518932
8th8.4205Steve Birbeck672336
9th8.4172Greg Booth9121536
10th8.4176Chris Larr2111638
11th10.2364Nick Peters2061238
12th8.4314Steven Lee13161140
13th8.4421Chris Cunningham18141042
14th8.4277David Smart2251845
15th8.4226Simon Bennett2615546
16th8.41Chris O'Neill11191646
17th8.4229Ian Maclean10201949
18th10.2310David Gorringe2321751
19th8.4298Al Hall14241755
20th8.4359Giles Peckham16272063
21st8.4379Neil Harris25172163
22nd8.4129Andrew Collenette19222263
23rd8.4182Richard Kenyon1513DNC66
24th8.4372Nick Edmonds1223DNC73
25th8.4233Chris Eglett279DNC74
26th10.2413Simon ChildsDNSDNS377
27th8.4309Mostyn Evans24252978
28th8.4135Jane Peckham30282583
29th8.4305Peter Cormie31292787
30th8.4156Chris Brown34302488
31st10.2124Gary Phare17DNSDNC92
32nd8.4377Andrew Wilson2826DNC92
33rd8.4250John Kewley29DNS2692
34th8.4357Troy Christensen32DSQ2897
35th8.4363Tom Gilbert33DNSDNC108
36th8.4104Heather ChipperfieldDNSDNSDNC112
37th8.4223Mark WebbDNCDNCDNC114

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