Flying 15 Southern Area Championship 2002
Steve Goacher and Phil Evans took the final race and the overall title on the final day of the FF Southerns at HISC.
With an early competition of 'hunt the committee boat' the fleet finally reached the race area south of the harbour entrance where race officer Mike Baker patiently waited with a course set 1 hour before first gun (take a note Largs!!).
After a general recall, and black flag raised, the fleet got away at the second attempt in a good southerly force 2-3. Barry & Sue Parkin headed south, benefited from good speed and a marginal tide variation, to head the fleet from the windward mark to the finish. Miles Odell & Chris Hewkin registered 2nd place with World Champion Charles & David Apthorp in 3rd. Detail entry for this race has proven elusive following Saturdays barbecue at the Class Presidents residence!.
For the Saturday afternoon race leading boats favoured the right side of the beat with Miles Odell and Steve Goacher & Phil Evans emerging as leaders at the windward mark. The westerly going tide created a tight first reach with little place changing. On both runs Roger & Barbara Palmer ran off to starboard away from the gybed fleet gaining handsomely on both occasions. By the time Goacher had passed Odell up the 2nd beat and the leading group rounded the bottom mark Roger Palmer had worked through to 3rd leaving Matt Flint & Andy Thompson 4th.
Race 3 started in a light northerly breeze that shifted and filled. The challenging conditions favoured those who took the middle or right hand side of the beat. First round the windward mark from the right was Alan Bax, followed by Barry Parkin then Mark Woods & Ian Gorringe. As the sea breeze battled with the northerly the first two boats went for a southerly sea breeze to be thwarted as the wind filled from the west. By staying high Mark Woods beat Bax to the wing mark closely followed by Ben & Brett Dingwell and Peter & Sue Bannister.
The second reach had become a run in fickle conditions. Mark Woods ghosted through to win a shorten race. Behind, as the breeze swung west to north, Charles Apthorp found a private northerly zephyer to pinch 2nd place from Ben Dingwell then Alan Bax.
Race 4 was started in a flat patch with those starting at the pin end benefiting from a breeze that only filled in on the left side of the course. Barry Parkin established a good lead from Adrian Tattersall & Tim Smart as the fleet strung out along the first reach. On the second reach the fleet concertinaed into a large hole. Ahead of a mass rounding Steve Goucher gained most by gybing south, rounding first ahead of Miles Odell and Roger Palmer, to win a shortened course at the windward mark with the unfortunate Parkins in 5th.
After 4 races, with a discard counted, overall standings were Odell 6 points, Goacher 7 points, Parkin & Palmer 11 points and Apthorpe 12 points.
On Monday the wind built to the forecast force 4 northerly and with race officer Mike Baker setting reaching legs described as 'spot on', the final race gave brilliant sailing and a fitting conclusion to the series.
From a pin end bias the port side was favoured and once again Barry Parkin rounded first pursued by Dave Lucas, Miles Odell, Matt Flint then Steve Goacher. On the first reach Goacher flew through to 2nd place at the wing mark then overhauled the Parkins having spinnaker problems after the gybe. After the leeward mark Goacher led to the finish from Flint and Lucas, who battled it out with a number of place changes around the remaining 3 laps for 2nd and 3rd place respectively, ahead of the pursuing group of Bax, Odell, Parkin and Apthorp.
Final overall placing gave Steve Goacher and Phil Evans the championship, Miles Odell a well earned 2nd place, and Barry Parkin 3rd.
At the prize giving Steve Goacher noted that at last this season the sun had shone at an open meeting and thanked HISC and the Hayling FF fleet for laying this on along with a busy sailing and social programme. The hard work of the many HISC FF members who helped with the organisation was well rewarded with a very successful series both on and off the water.
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Pos | Sail No | Helm | Crew | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Pts |
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1st | 3721 | Steve Goacher | Phil Evans | Royal Windemere YC | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | |
2nd | 3464 | Miles Odell | Chris Hewkin | HISC/Grafham Water | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11.0 | |
3rd | 3630 | Barry Parkin | Sue Parkin | HISC | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 17.0 | |
4th | 3615 | Roger Palmer | Barbara Palmer | HISC | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 17.0 | |
5th | 3711 | Alan Bax | Simon Childs | HISC | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 18.0 | |
6th | 3591 | Charles Apthorp | David Apthorp | HISC | 3 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 19.0 | |
7th | 3764 | Mark Wood | Ian Gorringe | HISC | 9 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 26.0 | |
8th | 3684 | Matt Flint | Andy Thompson | Northampton | 4 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 35.0 | |
9th | 3675 | A D Tattersall | Tim Smart | Bala | 8 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 36.0 | |
10th | 3716 | Justin Waples | Graham Wadley | Grafham | 7 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 38.0 | |
11th | 3736 | Peter Bannister | Sue Bannister | HISC | 13 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 41.0 | |
12th | 3536 | Greg Wells | Milo Mitchell | HISC | 12 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 49.0 | |
13th | 3763 | Morgan Sheely | Jan Van der Puil | 13 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 50.0 | ||
14th | 3603 | Ben Dingwall | Brett Dingwall | Grafham Water | 15 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 52.0 | |
15th | 3679 | Dave Lucas | Steve Carson | 10 | 8 | 36 | 3 | 57.0 | ||
16th | 3296 | Ian Cadwallader | Adrian Simpson | HISC | 16 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 58.0 | |
17th | 3765 | John Bovis | Mike Cave | HISC | 23 | 10 | 6 | 21 | 60.0 | |
18th | 3653 | Robert Hogben | Danny Johnston | BUSC | 11 | 21 | 21 | 8 | 61.0 | |
19th | 3699 | Simon Kneller | Andrew Palmer | Grafham Water | 14 | 12 | 24 | 11 | 61.0 | |
20th | 3627 | Brian Thake | Grafham Water | Grafham Water | 14 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 62.0 | |
21st | 3727 | Gill Browning | Justin King | HISC | 21 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 74.0 | |
22nd | 3689 | Henry Craven-Smith | Tim Hammick | HISC | 19 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 75.0 | |
23rd | 3706 | Tom Leonard | Michael Abrahams | HISC | 17 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 80.0 | |
24th | 3660 | Geoff Bayliss | Martin Grady | HISC | 18 | 16 | 26 | 22 | 82.0 | |
25th | 3175 | Brian Campbell-Bottoms | David Watkins | HISC | 26 | 25 | 19 | 23 | 93.0 | |
26th | 3672 | Chris Gordon | Chris Metcliffe | HISC | 30 | 25 | 15 | 25 | 95.0 | |
27th | 3724 | Paul Brown | Peter Baldwin | Notts County | 22 | 28 | 26 | 19 | 95.0 | |
28th | 2208 | Mark Patrick | David Brown | Middle Nene | 32 | 23 | 20 | 24 | 99.0 | |
29th | 3516 | Jamie Jameson | Carol Jameson | HISC | 25 | 29 | 20 | 25 | 99.0 | |
30th | 3393 | Dave Moody | Libby Walmsley | HISC | 29 | 29 | 23 | 27 | 108.0 | |
31st | 3645 | Colin Nutt | Chris Hough | Middle Nene/BVSC | DNC | 13 | 27 | DNC | 116.0 | |
32nd | 3720 | Richard King | Carolyn King | HISC | 24 | 31 | 33 | 28 | 116.0 | |
33rd | 3626 | Gerald New | Andrew Main | HISC | 27 | 35 | 30 | 26 | 118.0 | |
34th | 2700 | John Orchard | Judith Orchard | Notts County | 36 | 28 | 31 | 28 | 123.0 | |
35th | 3425 | Bill Jubb | Michael Jubb | Queen Mary | 35 | 27 | 34 | 29 | 125.0 | |
36th | 3031 | Brian Turner | Fran Haddock | Broxbourne | 33 | 31 | 33 | 29 | 126.0 | |
37th | 3466 | Matt Alvarado | Jonno Baker | WYC | 34 | 30 | RET | DNC | 139.0 |