South Midland Footy League 2011 -End of Year Report

We arranged nine events throughout the year and managed to attract two new Footy sailors, Peter Shepherd from our host club Wicksteed Park Model Boat Club and Paul Risdale. We had nine skippers turn out for our best attended event and only four at the worst. The standard of sailing is improving and a very friendly atmosphere has been created for the racing. Various courses have been set throughout the year, some complex and tricky whilst others have been relatively easy.

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We have adopted a system of timing throughout the day based upon a clockwork egg timer. This gives a specific time between races before the final minute, we even do it to time lunch! The outcome is the day does not slip away from you and everyone knows when they need to be on the water.This system has become known as the Gary Sanderson race management system.

The races are scored as normal with low scores winning and the appropriate throw away scores being applied, however for the league scoring, the winner gets 50 points and second 49 and so on. Again, there are two discard scores, which in this case are the lower ones. The following table summarizes the results throughout the year.

Overall Standings 2011

	Overall Standings
South Midlands Footy League
	2011			Race									Total	Discards		Final
Pos		Sail	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov		1	2	Total
1	Trevor Thomas	58	50	50	50	50	50	0	49	50	50	50	449	50	49	350
2	Peter Jackson	30	47	49	49	49	49	0	45	49	49	49	435	47	45	343
3	John Meredith	314	49	47	47	48	48	0	48	0	47	48	382	47	0	335
4	Paul Strong	203	46	46	0	45	47	0	46	46	42	44	362	0	42	320
5	Grahm Tite	311	48	48	48	0	0	0	50	0	48	0	242	0	0	242
6	Martin Dale	91	45	0	46	46	0	0	0	0	43	45	225	0	0	225
7	Peter Shepherd	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	47	48	45	47	187	0	0	187
8	Paul Risdale	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	47	46	46	139	0	0	139
9	Sid Syms	05	0	45	0	47	0	0	0	0	44	0	136	0	0	136

We do hope that we get more Footy skippers attending in 2012 and look forward to a friendly series of events next year. If you are interested in racing with us or coming along to one of our races just to see what Footy racing is all about contact Peter at peter.jackson@sailfootyuk.com

Peter Jackson
Club Chairman

Abington Park Model Yacht Club