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Wicksteed Park Footy Open
Saturday August 11th 2012
report by Peter Shepherd
Sailing Section members of the Wicksteed Park Model Boat Club worked together clearing weed on Thursday & Friday so that the event could take place. The east wind was light and with the surrounding greenery this made for some very interesting directional changes around the lake.
Peter Jackson set a simple there and back again course, twice round, tacking upwind on the start leg and downwind on the return, however the downwind leg proved the trickier of the two to get right with it switching from a very broad reach to a tack and back again once you neared the downwind gate. Nine skippers attended the event and we were pleased to have four visitors from other clubs to spice up the racing. All boats were checked in the box and the largest sails checked against the Stollery maximum sail template. The constantly shifting winds meant that if you fell behind you were always struggling to catch the others so a good start was essential.
Peter Jackson set a simple there and back again course, twice round, tacking upwind on the start leg and downwind on the return, however the downwind leg proved the trickier of the two to get right with it switching from a very broad reach to a tack and back again once you neared the downwind gate. Nine skippers attended the event and we were pleased to have four visitors from other clubs to spice up the racing. All boats were checked in the box and the largest sails checked against the Stollery maximum sail template. The constantly shifting winds meant that if you fell behind you were always struggling to catch the others so a good start was essential.
First Place - Peter Jackson
Peter sailed his ICE mainly using the A+ sail and his consistency was the key to his victory.
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Second Place - Scott Wallis
Scott Wallis was once again sailing his Depron Ranger and his finish was most creditable considering he was emptying water from it after most races.
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Third Place - David Wilkinson
David Wilkinson was pleased with his 3rd place and upon recieved his trophy most graciously thanked the team at Wicksteed who made the event possible
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Other notable events during the day were Paul Risdale starting to pick up wins with his WICE, Peter Shepherd using an Una rig on his ICE from race six, Nigel Rudd improving performances throughout the day with a large number of 2nd places the first place just eluding him. Charles Smith bringing home his ICE victorious in race 8, a burnt out rudder servo for Graham Tite in race 5 put pay to his chances for the day, I am not sure he was to happy with the boat he borrowed to keep him sailing. Dave Lissaman finishing almost all the races instead of being given position on the water.
I would like to thank Nigel & Gerard Rudd for all their help over the past few days to get the lake into a usable condition and all the competitors for making the event so enjoyable.
I would like to thank Nigel & Gerard Rudd for all their help over the past few days to get the lake into a usable condition and all the competitors for making the event so enjoyable.
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| 11th August 2012 | Race | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Discards | Final | |||||
| Name | Type | Sail No | Total | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Peter Jackson | ICE | 30 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 56 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 31 |
| 2 | Scott Wallis | RANGER | 47 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 58 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 39 |
| 3 | David Wilkinson | IAMBUS2 | 46 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 63 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 41 |
| 4 | Paul Risdale | WICE | 53 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 65 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 43 |
| 5 | Peter Shepherd | ICE | 65 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 81 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 53 |
| 6 | Nigel Rudd | ICE | 02 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 80 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 57 |
| 7 | Charles Smith | ICE | 00 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 86 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 60 |
| 8 | Graham Tite | 1299 | 40 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 107 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 78 |
| 9 | Dave Lissaman | OWN | 69 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 138 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 108 |
