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National Championships - SCYC – Race 4

Report: Paul Simes

Full Results - Race 4

Race 4 was held after Race 8 and started in a Force 1 to 2 under a sunny sky.

Mike Senior and Graham Nelson started not very far from Richard Estaugh and Simon Potts and followed them everywhere around the race course. Graham Flynn and Frank Nickless from Bartley SC sailed their own race and battled hard to keep Matt Mee and Chris Robinson behind them to record their 1^st race win of the Championship which moved them into 5^th overall. If Matt and Chris had managed to finish 1^st in the race as the results panned out, they would have finished 2^nd overall in the Championship. Third place in the race went to Dave Young and Liz Pugh from South Staffs  SC with Luke Shaw and Steve Parker, now with their boat empty of water having remembered to put on all the hatch covers, finishing fourth. Richard Estaugh and Simon Potts finished for them a disappointing 5^th.

The Silver Fleet medals were won by Andrew McKee and Richard Goddard from Dovestone SC, who finished 10^th in their Series 1 boat with Bob Baldwin and Spencer Meyer from Warsash SC winning the Bronze Fleet medals.

Moment of the race:
Master of Ceremonies, Mr Tim Hemsley pulles the spinnaker halyard so hard that he pulled the knot through the sheave so that when they got to the leeward mark it wouldn’t come down. They had to have some assistance to get it down and promptly retired.

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