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Trident Yorkshire Youth at Beaver Sailing Club
Author: Adrienne Benson
41 young sailors arrived at Beaver SC on Saturday14th June in glorious hot sunshine and no wind. After a postponement, sufficient wind appeared to start racing and the penultimate event in the Trident Yorkshire Youth Travellers Series was under way.
Anxious to shed their last two high scores, Dan and Sean Vernon made the best of their lack of weight and pulled out an incredible lead from the rest of the fleet. Chris Duffin and Nick Mitchell led the Lasers harried by James Lewis. Alex Good and substitute crew Natasha Lister, couldn’t quite coordinate themselves, coming in fourth on handicap and dropping to eighth in the second race. They finally sorted themselves to take a convincing lead in the final race.
Mitchell led Race 2 all the way around leaving Duffin try to hold off Matt Winter in his Radial and local lad Richard Hanby (RS200). This was Duffin’s discard race as he pulled himself up to 2nd in Race 3. The Vernons scored their worst result of the day (third) to take the overall event. Mitchell and Duffin had to be separated on tie-break for second and third overall.
The true picture for the Travellers’ series is now emerging. One event to go and it looks like Good and Smith are unassailable for the second successive year with 14 points separating them from Duffin. Lister and Shave’s third position looks vulnerable as Winter, Lewis and the Vernons are all in striking distance. Surprises are in store for qualifiers all down the fleet. Who will win the prestigious Leapfrog trophy???
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