Fireball pre worlds

Our man in Kenya won, results and report now in

The last day of the Pre World Championships dawned with a snake under our breakfast table and a monkey sat on our boat when we got to the dinghy park. 'You don't get this at Hayling Island' was mentioned!!

Usual story, 90 degrees, 10-15 knots on shore, a beautiful day to go racing. Our story was to test our World Championship sails, and with a possibility to win with a race to spare.

A conservative start, playing the middle of the fleet saw us a safe 3rd at the windard mark, rolling Malcolm Davies down the first reach put us in a regatta winning position that we carefully protected to the finish.

Dave Wade and Richard Wagstaff showed some great form to win both races on the day and finish a comfortable 2nd in the Pre-World regatta.

A pleasing start for us, with Vyvo getting over early sickness (the Mombassa Express as it is locally known), but many a top team are struggling with illness, with Angus Hemmings winning the running competition by a good margin.

Day off on Friday to rest cut hands and prepare for battle on Saturday.

Chips

		Helm	Crew							discard	final
1	GBR	Chips Howarth	Vyv Townend	1	1	2	2	2	DNS/32	32	8
2	GBR	Dave Wade	Richard Wagstaff	2	2	4	3	1	1	4	9
3	GBR	Vincent Horey	Jim Turner	3	5	OCS/32	1	5	3	32	17
4	GBR	Paul Cullen	Gavin Tillson	5	4	3	4	4	5	5	20
5	IRL	Shane McCarthy	Phil McCusker	6	7	8	5	3	2	8	23
6	GBR	Malcolm Davies	Fiona Jump	7	8	1	13	7	10	13	33
7	GBR	Jeremy Davy	Norman Byrd	8	3	10	10	OCS/32	4	32	35
8	GBR	Penny Gibbs	Ian Gibbs	16	6	6	9	9	6	16	36
9	GBR	Andy Pearce	Rachel Keeling	9	12	9	6	6	8	12	38
10	KEN	John Trundell	Peter Hime	13	10	5	14	8	7	14	43
11	IRL	Philip Lawton	Markham Nolan	4	9	13	17	12	9	17	47
12	SUI	Kurt Venhoda	Sonja Zaugg	11	24	7	7	13	12	24	50
13	GBR	Edwin Sadd	Steve Kuhl	10	13	11	8	11	13	13	53
14	KEN	Don White	Rob Allport	15	15	16	18	10	14	18	70
15	GBR	Ian Harrison	David Broome	12	14	20	15	23	11	23	72
16	KEN	Simon Woods	Alastair Bush	19	11	14	19	19	16	19	79
17	GBR	Elaine Tudor	Warren Tudor	17	20	19	16	14	15	20	81
18	FRA	Pierre-Jean Gallo	Pierre-Yves Robin	14	16	17	21	OCS/32	20	32	88
19	KEN	Ben Schulz	Nigel Shaw	18	DNS/32	12	11	OCS/32	18	32	91
20	GBR	Barrie Winship	Rose Winship	22	26	15	20	20	21	26	98
21	KEN	Omar Mbithi	Steven Ogada	26	19	18	24	16	23	26	100
22	KEN	Joachim Bebbington	Roger Bebbington	20	17	23	23	21	24	24	104
23	GBR	Alex Bale	Jonathon Bale	DNS/32	DNS/32	OCS/32	12	17	17	32	110
24	IRL	Louis Smyth	Shane Mugan	21	18	21	25	OCS/32	26	32	111
25	KEN	Chris Shaw	Alex Hurn	DNF/32	DNS/32	25	22	15	19	32	113
26	GBR	Keryn Henwood-Fox	Gary Henwood-Fox	28	21	26	27	18	22	28	114
27	KEN	Graham Bush	Harriet Bush	25	23	27	28	22	25	28	122
28	IRL	Francis Rowan	Ed Butler	23	22	24	26	OCS/32	28	32	123
29	KEN	Graham Alder	Taryn Childs	24	25	28	30	24	27	30	128
30	IRL	Corrin Mackenzie	Claudette Hall	29	27	22	29	25	30	30	132
31	KEN	Shah Khan	Andy Burnard	27	DNF/32	29	31	OCS/32	29	32	148