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2008 Class Captain is Mike Pickworth 

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2008 Open Meeting incorporating the Enterprise Class Midland Area Championship was held over the weekend of Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th April.   Visit the Enterprise Class website here  "SAILAWAY" Images website here (Day 1)

Meeting report, images (Day 2) and results below.

This received from Paul Young.  Enterprise Association Midland Area Secretary. "Here is the report as requested for the Barnt Green SC website.  Thank you for putting up the pictures so quickly. Janice Bottomley (sailaway) see Enterprise Association (midland area) page on the website for details, has some action shots of Saturday.   Many thanks for a good weekend."  The photographs on this page were taken on day two, Sunday, by Robin Brown.

# 23087 Richard Adams & James Holmes - Bartley SC - Winners of the BGSC Open and the Midland Area Champions.

This event, the Midland Area Championship, was the fourth in the 2008 Midland area Double Chine series sponsored by Speed Sails was held at Barnt Green SC on the weekend of 26th/ 27th April.

Race one held in strong winds – the first beat sorted the men from the boys and Richard Adams/ James Holmes (Bartley SC) proved what big men they were –first round the windward mark followed by Jonathan Woodward/Alex Halliwell (Redditch SC) and Steve Graham Matt Johnson (Northampton SC). The positions didn’t change much until the final lap when Steve/Matt pulled through to second closely followed by Tim Sadler/Hannah Sadler (Ripon SC) Jonathan/Alex and Ges Brown/Dennis Swain (Hallamshire).

Race Two. Richard and James led round the windward mark and never looked back. The following pack saw some close racing with places changing constantly. Finally it was Jonathan and Alex who took second with Tim and Hannah third, Steve and Matt then Ges and Dennis.

Race Three. Tim and Hannah led round the windward mark followed by Jonathan and Alex, with Ges and Dennis third .Tim and Hannah making full use of the gusty conditions to build up a lead on the planing reach

Richard and James didn’t have a good first beat and rounded tenth but managed eventually to pull through to second place passing Ges and Dennis on the last beat to the finish.

Ges Brown & Dennis Swain # 23194, winners of the BGSC Trophy Race, the fifth and final race of the event

Race Four. In the lighter winds on Sunday the race officer laid a challenging start line, which, due to an unexpected windshift to S.E, could not be crossed on starboard tack, after a small adjustment the twenty boats got off to a clean start. (Just one individual recall) First round the windward mark was Tim and Hannah who sailed away from the fleet. Mike Cossey/Christine Barron (Tamworth SC) was second until Richard /James and Ges/ Dennis managed to pass on the penultimate beat, these positions were then held to the finish.

 

Race Five. Richard and Peter Tuckett (Barnt Green SC, (seen above just rounding the leeward mark, well ahead of the fleet!) sailing almost the oldest boat in the competition at thirty four years old stormed up the first beat, leading by at least a hundred yards at the first and second marks, second was Mike and Jessicia Pickworth (Barnt Green SC), who took advantage of their local knowledge to lead a close bunch of four boats which followed which included Jonathan/Alex, Ges/ Dennis, Steve /Matt, and Tim/ Hannah. Places changed until the fourth beat when Ges/Dennis pulled through to lead with Steve/Matt in second place, the final beat saw Tim /Hannah move into second with Jonathan/Alex pipping Steve/Matt to third.

Richard Tuckett and son Peter leading the fleet up the second beat of race five in 17717. "Did you get my picture"? He called as he sailed past, working hard at trying to keep the chasing pack at bay!

 

Richard Adams and James Holmes are the new Midland area champions, who thanked everyone for a great weekend. Richard Tuckett rounded off a good afternoon’s work by winning the star prize in the Double Chine lucky draw.   Report kindly organised by Paul Young.      Results below...

The main prize winners enjoying their moment, many congratulations to them.  Check back soon to see more pictures and a special gallery (under construction)

Overall Results

1st       6pts     23087   Richard Adams/James Holmes                             Bartley SC

2nd      7pts     23127   Tim Sadler/Hannah Sadler                                     Ripon SC

3rd      12pts   23194    Ges Brown/Dennis Swain                                      Hallamshire

4th      13pts   23089    Jonathan Woodward/Alex Halliwell                      Redditch SC  

5th      15pts   23223    Steve Graham/Matt Johnson                                Northampton SC

6th      29pts   23138    Adrian Savage/ Caroline Savage                          Barnt Green SC

7th      35pts   22979    Kelsey Suggitt/ Josh Stuart                                  Barnt Green SC

8th      41pts   23159    Martin Bottomley /Ray Ball                                 Emberton Park SC

9th      42pts   22619    Kevin Rose/Naomi Bilton                                     Olton Mere SC

10th    42pts   22901    Paul Young /Iain Leiper                                        Midland SC

11th    44pts   22823    Mike Cossey/ Christine Barron                           Tamworth SC

12th    45pts   23224    Graham Kirkup/ Crawford Mc Cleary                 Grafham Water SC

13th     49pts   22869    Rob Lennox/Hannah Lennox                                Barnt Green SC

14th     51pts   18247    Bob Suggitt/ Kate Rowe                                        Barnt Green SC

15th     52pts   22932    Mike Pickworth/ Jessica Pickworth                     Barnt Green SC

16th    55pts   20443    Nigel Allso/Kate Brazier                                      Tamworth SC

17th   58pts    23008    Barry Moss/ Julie Moore                                     Shustoke SC

18th   60pts    17717    Richard Tuckett/ Peter Tuckett                           Barnt Green SC

19th   67pts    21444    Richard Easton/ Jill Easton                                  Barnt Green SC

20th   69pts    22428    Gordon Padmore/ Rose Padmore                         Barnt Green SC

21st   83pts    14711    Joe Taylor/ Sam Evans                                         Barnt Green SC

 

Link HERE to page 2 which has details of the Under 21 National Championship to be hosted again by BGSC on September 6/7 2008 together with preliminary details of the new BGSC charity race on 7th September at 4. p.m.                            Link HERE to view the Enterprise Archive page  

Link here to gallery 1 of an Enterprise Under 21 Regatta and here to gallery 2                         

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