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2010 Laser & Laser Class Open Race Results

simon.miles — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:32:45 +0000

Stewartby Sailing Club hosted the seventh round of the 2010 Laser Home Counties and Eastern region Grand Prix series on Saturday 22nd May. Ten visitors joined four home club entries and all were greeted with a light force 2 to 3 wind with occasional big holes and scorching sunshine.

Race Officers Simon Witham and Barney Proud set a compact square course for the two back to back races before lunch.
The fleet made a clean start in race one and Graham Lund from Aldenham Sailing Club led after the first lap followed closely by Alan Bishop from Girton SC in second and Simon Miles SWSC in third. Behind the first three some close racing took place with the compact course keeping places close. Six laps were completed with Lund first across the line followed by Bishop in second, Miles in third and Krzysztof Bonicki from NHEB who had worked his way through the fleet to finish fourth.
The compact square course was retained for the second race. An excellent start saw Graham Smith from Graffam Water SC lead after the first lap followed by Bishop and Lund. The fleet completed four laps with Smith finishing first followed by Lund and Bishop.
After lunch the wind had swung through 40 degrees necessitating a change of course. At the start the wind swung even further resulting in a heavily starboard biased line, despite this the fleet started cleanly with most competitors tacking onto port immediately. At the end of the first lap Lund lead with Miles in second and Ryan Langston from Beccles SC in third. With the exception of Lund who managed to maintain his lead from start to finish there was considerable place changing throughout the rest of the fleet. Lund crossed the line first followed by Bishop in second and Bonicki in third.
The fourth race started cleanly and Lund lead at the end of the first lap followed by Mike Oddy from Wembley SC in second and Miles in third. With large wind shifts and calm patches places changed throughout the fleet , at the end of four laps Bishop did well to finish first followed closely by Lund in second, Miles in third and Adrian Degge H(B)SC in fourth.

Overall Results:

Graham Lund ,(Aldenham SC)
Alan Bishop, (Girton SC)
Krzysztof Bonicki, (NHEB)
Simon Miles, (SWSC)
Jarvis Simpson
Adrian Degge, H(B)SC

First Junior: Ryan Langston

First Radial: Andrew Byrne

Triard Award: Graham Smith for his first race win. Well done.

2010 Club Championship & Open Meetings

Karl Pountney — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:40:00 +0000

The club diary is almost ready for publishing. In fact, we’re able to announce the full list of all of of the Club Championship dates and open meetings for 2010. You will need to read the full article for the dates for your class. Experienced Race Officers are invited to apply to run these events.

Club Championship

2010 Cup Weekend
Event	Date	Notes
Houghton Cup	April 17th / 18th
Caulcott Cup	July 24th / 25th
Blackaby Cup	October 9th / 10th	Rockall Wk. 10 will be the last weekend of the summer season.

Notes: The Club Championship will be a 15 race series combining the results from each of the 3 weekend. The Silver Fleet & Junior Championship will also return in 2010.

Open Meetings & Class Championships

2010 will see the return of a major event across the whole lake which, including training days, will run for 4 days in June. In addition we also have two whole weekend opens and 5 singe day opens. The classes just love coming back and they are very welcome.

2010 Opens & Championships
Event	Date	Notes
Spring Open Handicap	April 4th	3 race, two fleet (fast/slow) handicap competition.
Laser & Laser Radial Open	May 22nd	4 races
Streaker Nationals	June 12th / 13th	Training Days: 10th / 11th
Kestrel Midlands Championships	June 26th / 27th
National Solo Open	July 10th	4 races
Topper Open	September 18th	Traveller Series
Phantom Open	October 2nd / 3rd	Super Series Event
Kestrel Winter Nationals	October 24th	4 races
Sprint 15th Winter TT	November 6th	(To be confirmed by Class Assn.)

Open Meeting Race Officers

Race officers wishing to run any of the Open meeting events should apply to the duty manager as soon as possible. To ensure that events are available to all race officers seeking experience, the following conditions are applied:

A race officer does not get first preference on an event they’ve run the year before.
The same race officer must run both days of a two-day event, however the assistants may be different.
After February 28th, events any unclaimed events will be assigned by the duty officer

Please Note: The Streaker Nationals event has already been allocated.

Sprint 15 Winter T.T. – Saturday 7th November

Karl Pountney — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:41:18 +0000

The opening round of the Sprint 15 Touring Trophy takes place at Stewartby on Saturday 7th November. The first race is at 11am with a competitors briefing 15 minutes beforehand. Two races and everyone takes away a prize.

Entry fee is £15 for visitors and £10 for club members.