Thursday, April 21, 2011

ERICSON 38

Boat: ERICSON 38

Builder: Ericson Yachts

Designer: Bruce King

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Marblehead Open at Cotswold Sailing Club


Author: Roger Stollery

The fourth MYA district ranking event for this high performance ISAF class was organised by the radio racing section of the Cotswold Sailing Club at their water in the Cotswold Water Park on 29 June 2003. The event attracted skippers from 10 clubs from as far away as Cleveland. The brisk 5-10 mph southerly winds allowed some planing in the offwind gusts, which made for exciting sailing. PRO, David Munro initially set a traditional triangle and sausage course of about 1000 metres long and gave everyone 18 superb races, which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. As the wind went further on shore a zig zag was introduced to keep the windward legs a true beat. The speed and evenness of the performances gave some close encounters at the starting line, buoy roundings and the finishing line! Over enthusiasm at the start resulted in several general recalls.

The racing was dominated by John Arundell from Yateley sailing the narrow beam, deep keeled, high stability ‘Starkers Squared’. He won 7 races in confident style, whilst Peter Wiles from Poole sailing his own ‘Composite’ design won 3, John Cleave from Ryde sailing a ‘Skalpel’ and Trevor Bamforth from the host club sailing a borrowed ‘Starkers’ won 2 each. Single wins were achieved by Chris Harris from Bournville and George Beacroft from Chelmsford both sailing ‘Starkers Squared’, Paul Tickner from Guildford sailing a ‘Crazy Tube Too’ and Graham Bartholomew from Chelmsford sailing a ‘Rok’.



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