Home club winners for the Fireball Open Meeting held at HISC over the weekend. After the excitment of Saturdays racing the wind eased for Sunday, maybe to allow the crews to recover from their Saturday night excesses!

In the Fireball races Chips Howarth and Vyv Townend won the first days races but then struggled on Sunday with Vince Horey and Jon Mildred from King George SC taking race three to move into the lead. Then they both gave pace to Andy Pearce and Adam Broughton, Portishead SC, who added a win to their second in the first race of the day.

Howarth and Townend got it all back together to win the final race and the series, holding off Horey and Mildred by one point with Dave Wade and Richard Wagstaff taking third.

Fireball Open Meeting - Worlds Qualifier - 22 / 23 June 2002
Pos Sail No Helm Crew Club R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Pts
1 14779 Chips Howarth Vyv Townend HISC 1 1 4 3 1 6
2 14770 Vincent Horey Jon Mildred King George SC 2 2 1 6 2 7
3 14790 David Wade Richard Wagstaff Northampton 3 3 6 2 4 12
4 14556 Andy Pearce Adam Broughton Portishead SC 14 13 2 1 10 26
5 14629 Spunky Hope Steve Chesney HISC 7 12 9 5 5 26
6 14789 Penny Gibbs Ian Gibbs Brightlingsea SC 13 5 3 7 24 28
7 14652 Martin Cooney David Cooney Parkstone YC 10 24 5 4 9 28
8 14783 Paul Cullen Gavin Stokes Bay 6 7 7 12 8 28
9 14777 Phil Popple Douglas Shore Shoreham 5 6 8 14 14 33
10 14631 Juin Franck Perdon Pierre France 9 11 16 11 3 34
11 14713 Keith Walker John Rees HISC 4 4 15 17 11 34
12 14784 Tom Fenn Alex Pigot NCSC 24 9 10 9 7 35
13 14662 Ben Schutz Nick Willis Adelaide SC 12 8 13 13 6 39
14 14598 Derian Chandler Andy Scott CVLSC 15 14 11 8 12 45
15 14798 Martin Scarth Nigel Shepard Blackwater SC 8 10 18 18 16 52
16 14636 Alex Bale Jon Bale Chew Valley 11 24 12 16 15 54
17 14624 Matt Summers Ben Summers Highcliffe SC 18 15 17 10 24 60
18 14686 Mike Thomas Steve Digby Draycote Water SC 16 16 19 19 13 64
19 14621 Tim Cross Rachel Keeling 17 24 14 15 24 70
20 14466 Keryn Henwood-Fox Gary Henwood-Fox Thornbury SC 24 24 21 21 17 83
21 14456 Richard Thorpe David Thorpe Datchet SC 19 24 20 20 24 83
22 8754 Steve Crammond George Crammond Grafham 24 24 22 24 24 94
23 14245 Tessa Nicholls Peter Connor Draycote Water SC 24 24 24 24 24 96