Racing Roundup
The 49’er and 29’er National Championships were held at Llandudno Sailing Club at the end of August and several Restronguet sailors traveled up to Wales to try their hand at skiff racing.
The 49’er Nationals can be star-studded affairs depending on the whereabouts of the British Olympic Squad who as it happens were either resting after the World Championships in Portugal or preparing for the Chinese Test Event for the 2008 Olympics at Qingdao.
New faces therefore all round and Ed Powys and Will Morgan enjoyed a race win and finished 9th overall in a championship restricted to 5 races and 1 discard due to a lack of wind.
The 29’ers had better luck and completed a 10 race series with the 56-boat fleet into Gold and Silver sub-divisions after the first 5 races.
Fresh out of Optimists Liam and Sam Stackpoole fared best of the two fledgling Restronguet crews finishing 6th in the Silver fleet with George Wilson and Roger Stablins finishing 9th.
It’s a good thing that Lake Garda is a large lake as the Italian venue hosted the Dart 18 and Topper World Championships over the last couple of weeks.
Robin Elsey from Restronguet had an excellent regatta in the Topper Gold fleet finishing 11th overall and including 1 race win in the event, which had over 175 entries. Harry Houlding from Fowey Gallants finished 68th overall in the Gold fleet.
In the Dart 18,s Kim and Sarah Furniss from Pentewan finished 24th overall in a fleet of 124 boats. Sadly Matt Pullen and Debbie Rickard chose not to defend the title they won so convincingly last year in South Africa.
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The 2007 Qingdao International Regatta was a blast. See you all at the 2008 Games!
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