With the forecast for the weekend
saying gales any sailing looked to be in doubt. Saturday dawned with a force
5-6 leaving the race committee with a difficult decision, in the end they
decided to try and get three races in sailing up river. The first race saw
Emma and John Barry from Brightlingsea make a port end start and lead to the
windward mark, they were closely followed by Craig and Mitchell bond also
from Brightlingsea, with current National Champion Dan and James Ellis from
Royal Plymouth Corinthian in 3rd and past Mirror champion Steve and Juliet
Long from Plymouth Yacht Club in 4th. The Bond's soon took the lead from the
Barry's and went on to win, the Ellis boys had a battle with the Barry's and
took second place on the line from the Barry's 3rd and the Long's 4th. After
a short delay the second race got under way, the Ellis boys lead from the
start and went on to win by a large margin, behind them the battle for the
minor places saw two new boats at the front, the Hansen sisters from Covenham
and Tom Robinson from Warsach, after some close racing and with the wind increasing
the race officer decided to shorten the race, the Hansen girls secured a 2nd
followed by Robinson and the Bonds. The final race for Saturday was cancelled
due to the wind increasing to force 7. It was very apparent from Sunday
morning that to get any sailing in on Sunday would be difficult, the race
committee decided at 9:30 that no further sailing would be done, this left
the Ellis boys as overall Champions with the Bond's second and the Long's
third.
This was a World Qualifier event with ranking points awarded, the last event
is at Warsash Sailing Club on the 25th/26th September, and after this date
the GBR team will be announced.
Brightlingsea Sailing Club
Mirror
Eastern Area
Championships
Final Results
Sailed: 2 Discards: 0 Ratings: PY
| Rank | Boat Name | Sail No | Helm | Crew | Club | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Nett |
| 1st | We Take Plastic | 70132 | Dan Ellis | James Ellis | Royal Plymouth Corinthian | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | ||||
| 2nd | Molly | 70281 | Craig Bond | Mitchell Bond | BSC | 1.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | ||||
| 3rd | Double Excel | 70222 | Steve Long | Juliet Long | Plymouth YC | 4.0 | 5.0 | 9.0 | ||||
| 4th | Ace of Clubs | 70263 | Josh Rumbol | Tom Davidson | Poole YC | 5.0 | 6.0 | 11.0 | ||||
| 5th | Double Trouble | 70176 | Eloise Hansen | Kayleigh Hansen | Covenham / North Lincs | 10.0 | 2.0 | 12.0 | ||||
| 6th | Phreetle | 69776 | Emma Barry | John Barry | BSC | 3.0 | 10.0 | 13.0 | ||||
| 7th | Trident | 70159 | Jake Gebhard | DRSC | 7.0 | 8.0 | 15.0 | |||||
| 8th | 70274 | William Kalderon | Rebecca Kalderon | Itchenor SC | 9.0 | 7.0 | 16.0 | |||||
| 9th | Sven | 70163 | Vince Horey | Anya Horey | Fishers Green | 8.0 | 9.0 | 17.0 | ||||
| 10th | Norbert | 39508 | Guy Wilkins | Joe Wilkins | Chipstead SC | 6.0 | 12.0 | 18.0 | ||||
| 10th | Encore une Fois | 70003 | Tom Robinson | Shaun Mason | Warsash | 15.0 | 3.0 | 18.0 | ||||
| 12th | Bear Too | 69164 | Jamie Clementson | Chipstead SC | 11.0 | 11.0 | 22.0 | |||||
| 13th | Checkmate Mate | 70258 | Jamie Knill | Lewis Rumbol | Poole YC | 12.0 | 13.0 | 25.0 | ||||
| 14th | 70162 | Judi Gebhard | Joric Gebhard | DRSC | 14.0 | 14.0 | 28.0 | |||||
| 15th | 70166 | 16.0 | 15.0 | 31.0 | ||||||||
| 16th | Déjà vu | 70171 | Nicola Brook Hannah | Mitchell Hollingworth | Lake SC | 13.0 | 22.0 | 35.0 | ||||
| 17th | Ab Fab | 70085 | Abi Stodel | Michael Conlon | BSC | 21.0 | 16.0 | 37.0 | ||||
| 18th | Desperate Measure | 47566 | Inge-Lisa Hansen | Matthew Kiddie | Covenham | 19.0 | 19.0 | 38.0 | ||||
| 19th | Lion | 12890 | James Thomas | Evan Goodrum | Tankerton Bay | 18.0 | 21.0 | 39.0 | ||||
| 20th | What a girl wants | 70201 | Kate Macgregor | Christopher Brewer | Poole | 20.0 | 20.0 | 40.0 | ||||
| 21st | 69891 | D Conlon | Chris Rust | BSC | DNF | 17.0 | 46.0 | |||||
| 21st | Ida | 69020 | RJ Smith | Phoebe Lambert | Dabchicks SC | 17.0 | DNF | 46.0 | ||||
| 23rd | Pwootle | 69583 | Trevor Lloyd | Alex Lloyd | BSC | DNF | 18.0 | 47.0 | ||||
| 24th | 19879 | Tom Horey | Otto Willburg | Fishers Green | 24.0 | 24.0 | 48.0 | |||||
| 24th | 70324 | Lilly Carlish | Becky Walbeck | Ripon | 22.0 | 26.0 | 48.0 | |||||
| 26th | 30792 | A Cerlish | ? | ? | 25.0 | 25.0 | 50.0 | |||||
| 27th | Puffin | 70161 | R Chandler | Tom Chandler | BSC | DNS | 52.0 | 23.0 | ||||
| 27th | Ramming Speed | 55468 | Christopher Matthews | Sarah Bines | BSC | 23.0 | DNS | 52.0 |