Flying Fifteen nationals

Apthorp and Green lead after three days

Overnight the wind had shifted to the south and strengthened to F4/5. Conditions proved excellent with a fairly consistent wind and not too much swell. Although a good line was set, the competitive fleet once again caused a General Recall. Steve Goacher led at the Windward mark from the Spanish team of Joachim Cobarro/Javier Chacartegui, 3796. As the Spaniards sailed high and held up the fleet Goacher sailed away, holding his lead until the line. Alan Bax/Paul Busby had a great reach moving up from 8th to take second on the line. Charles Apthorp was third.

The second race also saw a General Recall but once away Apthorp had a great first beat, showing impressive boat speed, emerging from a tight group to round the windward mark first. The following group, Simon Kneller, 3699, Gill Browning, 3818, Howard Green, 3734, and Steve Goacher, 3721, proved that there was little to gain from choosing either side of the beat. At the gybe mark Greg Wells, 3776, ran into the stern of Kneller, damaging his own boat again and deciding to retire. Goacher made the most of the confusion and went low; Apthorp covered Goacher for the remainder of the race and "cruised up the final beat" to take first place with Goacher second, and Alan Bax third. Despite nearly losing his crew, David Lucas, in the collision, Simon Kneller held on for fourth.

The winner of the John Clark Trophy for the Day 3 combined races was Steve Goacher/Justin Chisholm.

After 5 races and with one discard applied the overall leader is Charles Apthorp with 8.7 points, just ahead of Steve Goacher on 9 points. In third place is Mike Hart on 23.1 points.

In the Classics it was business as usual as Stuart and Jennifer Jones clocked up another clean sweep of victories. Graham Lamond/Scott Train were second with Keith Jamieson/Maf Smith third for the day.

	Sail No	Helm	Crew	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5
1	3591	Charles Apthorp	Alan Green	8.7	3	8	0	5.7	0
2	3721	Steve Goacher	Justin Chisholm	9	10	3	3	0	3
3	3817	Mike Hart	Tim Hall	23.1	0	5.7	5.7	16	11.7
4	3805	David McKee	Andrew McKee	23.7	5.7	0	10	8	19
5	3786	Alan Bax	Paul Busby	24.7	8	42	8	3	5.7
6	3699	Simon Kneller	David Lucas	50	14	42	15	13	8
7	3603	Brett Dingwall	Ben Dingwall	55	16	13	14	15	13
8	3759	Bryan Willis	John McPeake	57.7	13	11.7	16	23	17
9	3734	Howard Green	Ian Preston	60	17	20	13	24	10
10	3681	Pip Hudson	Jeremy Hudson	61	18	10	18	19	15
11	3770	Neil Platt	Andy Weatherspoon	64.4	11.7	42	19	11.7	22
12	3796	Javier Chacartegui	Joachim Cobarro	69	20	15	24	10	29
13	3818	Gill Browning	Simon Hunt	71	24	17	23	17	14
14	3787	David Brockbank	Rob Parfitt	75	23	18	20	14	30
15	3716	Justin Waples	Amanda Waples	81	25	22	21	20	18
16	3675	Adrian Tattersall	Tim Smart	85	22	19	28	32	16
17	3645	Glyn Morgan	Chris Hough	86	29	14	30	18	25
18	3777	Geoff Bayliss	Adrian Simpson	90	19	25	42	25	21
19	3776	Greg Wells	David Tulloch	90.7	15	42	11.7	22	42
20	3806	Peter Hogg	David Downs	93	26	16	25	30	26
21	3727	Andrew Palmer	Graham Wadeley	94	32	42	17	21	24
22	3655	Will Gardner	Sam Parker	96	28	21	27	29	20
23	3685	Jeremy Arnold	John Allen	100	30	24	22	26	28
24	3639	Mike Lyddon	Andrew Tunnicliffe	102	33	23	29	27	23
25	3815	Athol King	Trevor Bellis	105	21	27	26	35	31
26	3750	Andy Goddard	Colin Pierce	120	34	26	34	28	32
27	3429	Colin Fletcher	Hugh Fletcher	127	42	29	33	31	34
28	3802	Ewan Masson	James Dick	127	31	30	31	37	35
29	3576	Bobby Salmond	Robert Till	129	27	42	42	33	27
30	3768	John Wardrop	Neil Cunliffe	133	38	31	35	34	33
31	2984	Kenny Leask	Trina Coyne	137	35	28	37	38	37
32	3784	John Hull	Sylvia Hull	141	36	33	36	40	36
33	3808	Noel West	Amanda Conrad	143	37	42	32	36	38
34	3164	Roland Antonelli	Andy Cross	148	39	32	38	39	39
35	3813	Richard Estaugh	Tim Harper	168	42	42	42	42	42