It can not be stressed enough the importance of today's competition to some of the competitors, the second running of the Bassett Lowke Open at Abington Park Model Yacht Club. Firstly not only was it a Footy Open it was also round six of the Open Footy League with the three main protagonists David Wilkinson, Peter Shepherd & Peter Jackson, all left in the hunt in attendance, added to that the August round of the Midland Footy League where although the first two places are all tied up, third was still very much up for grabs and being hotly contested by Graham Tite and Paul Risdale. Throw into the mix the attendance of the 2013 Footy Gold Cup winner Phil Tyler and you can see that everything was to play for.
The course was set by OOD Peter Jackson as a very long triangle and sausage, utilising the full length of the boating lake, this meant that the windward buoy was tucked well up at the top of the course meaning rounding the mark was somewhat tricky as the winds always tend to be on the fluky side in this part of the lake. The triangle was simple enough with the wing mark set about halfway down the lake, however once again the leeward mark would give some of the skippers difficulty not so much on the approach, but when leaving it and making progress up the lake the right decisions had to be made to ensure you didn't lose to much ground. |
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. | August 2013 | Race | Discards | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
. | No | Name | Model | Sail | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 1 | Phil Tyler | SliM | 42 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 2 | Peter Shepherd | Ice | 65 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 40 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 3 | Peter Jackson | Ice | 30 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 65 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 4 | Paul Risdale | Wice | 53 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 74 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 5 | David Wilkinson | Iambus2 | 46 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 92 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 6 | Graham Tite | 1299 | 40 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 94 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 7 | Mike Ewart | Puma 305 | 153 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 103 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 8 | Trevor Thomas | Awk | 58 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 108 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 9 | Sid Sims | 1299 | 05 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 126 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 98 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
. | 10 | Nigel Rudd | see report | 02 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 139 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 108 |