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Heavy heads at day three of the Carbonology Firefly Nationals Championship

Tuesday July 26th 2011, Author: Christian Guy, Location: United Kingdom

Day three of the Carbonology Firefly Nationals Championships was another close day of tactical dinghy racing for the 53 boat fleet.

A late start was scheduled for reasons of tide and 'crew's union' recovery, and as we shall see later this lie-in was capitalised on brilliantly by Atomic, crewed by the class union official Ruthie Verrier-Jones.

Rob and Mel Sherrington were the pathfinder boat, and several minor windshifts during the gate start allowed some early gains by boats that started at the right time. For a time, it looked as if playing each shift in turn would reap the most reward but in the event the wind backed dramatically on the left hand side of the course. Bloodhound crewed by George Yeoman and Sophie Ormsby from Itchenor Sailing Club as able to set themselves up for an enormous lead.

The top 10 boats round the windward mark included many boats lying around 20th overall, and many of the championship top-dogs were looking dog-slow having failed to catch the shift. Yeoman drew out his lead by many hundreds of yards as the race progressed while second place was handed back by Clarke and Wilkinson (Tea for Two) to F3119 Horror.

The last lap was described by Roger Morris and Jo Findlay (sailing Horror) as if the girls were ganging up on him - having to fend off attacks from Emma Derby and Sophe Knight in the famous Alarm, and Sophie Shepherd and Sarah Lombard in Mojo. Eventually though, notwithstanding Yeoman and Ormsby's spectacular win, 'man of the match' (ahem) must surely go to Katie Archer and Ruth V-J who raced through the fleet from a bad start and pipped Roger Morris and Jo Findlay on the line, simply by judging the tidal lay-line spot on. Well done girls!

Tommorow sees the fleet contend for one of the most famous trophies in dinghy racing - the endurance test that is the Sir Ralph Gore Challenge Cup.

Results:

 

Pos Boat Helm Crew R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot Net
1 Fetherlite Vines Vines 1 2 1 -4 8 4
2 Fursty Ferret Hudson Bowden 5 1 5 -12 23 11
3 Kong Lumby Evans 2 4 -7 5 18 11
4 Bloodhound Yeoman Ormsby 4 7 -8 1 20 12
5 Flo Johnson Steele 7 3 4 -20 34 14
6 Horror Morris Findlay -9 5 6 3 23 14
7 Cumulus Greaves Edwards 11 6 2 -14 33 19
8 Fourwood Thinking Smith Witherby 3 8 11 -16 38 22
9 Atomic Archer Verrier-Jones 8 14 -16 2 40 24
10 Desperado Cornah Girling -14 9 3 13 39 25
11 Grendel Smith Smith 6 13 9 -31 59 28
12 Iris Sherrington Sherrington (54.0 DNC) 11 10 11 86 32
13 Mustard Davey Hooper 16 10 12 -24 62 38
14 Billy Field Clark -15 15 14 10 54 39
15 Red Baron Johnson Sheldon -34 12 20 8 74 40
16 Lynestra Davison Bretherton 10 -30 18 15 73 43
17 Mojo Shepherd Lombard 20 19 -22 6 67 45
18 Two fo Tea Clarke Wilkinson 31 -40 13 7 91 51
19 Fizz Steele Pavey 18 16 17 -27 78 51
20 The Walrus Mainwaring Lamb 12 21 21 -22 76 54
21 Tigger Barker Goff 17 20 -25 17 79 54
22 Water Spider Sincock Terry 19 23 15 -26 83 57
23 Scruffy Thresher Charter 22 22 -26 18 88 62
24 Alarm Derby Knight 28 26 -37 9 100 63
25 Tactic Vincent Vincent 24 18 23 -30 95 65
26   Pinkham Best -29 17 29 23 98 69
27 Lollypop Arnold Portway 30 -34 24 19 107 73
28 Lurcher Johnson Johnson 26 24 -31 29 110 79
29 Top Dolly Bickford Smith 21 37 -39 25 122 83
30 Mensonge Guy Dixon 23 29 33 -35 120 85
31 Bumble Jones Meakins -33 27 28 33 121 88
32 Chi Chi Whitefoot Milledge 32 31 27 -45 135 90
33 Jungle Fresh Chapman Ratcliffe (54.0 DNC) 25 35 32 146 92
34 Veronica Lasko Gray -40 38 19 39 136 96
35 Sound Chief Matthews Bramley (54.0 DNC) 33 42.0 DNF 21 150 96
36 Tiffany Thompson Thompson 27 28 (54.0 DNS) 44 153 99
37 Trinket Clayton Crawshaw -36 35 36 28 135 99
38 Elmo's Fire Eagleton Wallis (47.0 DNF) 32 32 37 148 101
39 Biffa Lonsdale Herridge 37 -41 30 41 149 108
40 King of Rock n Roll Williams Clayton 39 36 (42.0 DNF) 38 155 113
41   Biaver-Mann Boadle 25 (54.0 DNC) 54.0 DSQ 36 169 115
42 Ratbag Gill Tuppen -47 47 34 34 162 115
43 Sox Francis Root 35 -43 38 42 158 115
44 Skirmish McEwen Hackenberg 13 (54.0 DNC) 54.0 DNC 54.0 DNC 175 121
45 Tinkerbell Thompson Thompson (47.0 DNF) 39 42.0 DNF 43 171 124
46 Bob Pudney Hamer 44 42 40 -49 175 126
47 The ebay Boat Rowell Adams 43 45 41 -52 181 129
48 G6 Hodgkins McEachern 41 -48 42.0 DNF 47 178 130
49 Trousers Slimming Taylor 38 (54.0 DSQ) 54.0 DNS 40 186 132
50 Seaweed Tilsey Tilsey (54.0 DNS) 44 42.0 DNF 46 186 132
51 Steve Forward Moynes 46 46 42.0 DNF -48 182 134
52 Hit the Bottle Stewart Van Dyke 42 49.0 DNF (54.0 DNC) 51 196 142
53 Serious Repair Thresher Postbeschild 45 (54.0 DNS) 54.0 DNC 50 203 149

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