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Sextant Trophy
2002T R2
Lee Valley MYC
16th July 2017

Report By Henry Farley
Nine skippers booked in for the Sextant Trophy at Lee Valley's Clayton Hill venue but one was not well so could not attend.
The lake was its usual self with light, variable winds that were somewhat of an enigma.
But then everybody knew that!
To add to the mixture there was some floating weed so the pace was set to enable boats to be checked after every race.

In Race 1 Cliff Daniels and his light wind, low drag, non weed catching Prismatic got away to a good start.
After rounding the windward mark he took his eye of the ball while he checked the position of the next mark and the boat slowed to a stop while others sailed past him.
Then it was very reluctant to get going gain which seemed odd until he brought it ashore and found a large clump of weed attached to the rudder which is the only place that can catch it and usually doesn't.  So much for being non weed catching!
Race 3 saw something similar for John Davies though he did hang on to finish 3rd.
Race 5 brought disaster for Martin Jarvis when his transmitted came off the strap and plunged into the water.  He was unable to dry it out to get it going again which was a pity as his Panther showed promise in its first outing in a competitive fleet.
By this time it became clear that Bernie's Ravenna didn't like going around the windward mark and there were many times, sometimes one after the other, when it fell just below the mark when on a starboard beat to it.
Race 8 saw Cliff get into his stride with a runaway win in a light spell.
Meanwhile Terry Burton and Mike Ewart had been beavering away to some useful results such that at this point Terry has 13 points, John 15, Mike 16 and Cliff 17.
The rest were some way behind although Geoff Earle bagged a win in Race 7.
Geoff was feeling the strain so dropped out of racing after Race 8 but stayed to lend moral support while resting.
We stopped for lunch at about 12:30 then continued on in much the same way with the top spots being closely contested by Terry, Cliff, John and Mike.
However Norman Clarke's Revulsion called Levity, got among them from time to time and took a win in Race 14.
The event was sailed in good humour despite the light winds and weed and all incidents, of which there were only a few, were resolved on the water.
We got through 18 races due to some extent to Paul Clayden on the start machine being quick on the draw once all boats appeared to be able to get to the start line.
At the end Cliff and Terry were both on 39 points.
This is where the scorer failed in his proper duty! I had scored up to Race 17 so had only one to add at the end but then forgot to sort the results into order or check how the winner, which I announced as Terry, had won the tie.
If I had then I would have seen that actually Cliff won by having 7 wins to Terry's 4.
Fortunately Terry decided to leave the trophy at Lee Valley so I will pass it to Cliff soon.
John had to leave before the last race and had he sailed things might have been a bit different as he was on a roll.
As it was he finished 3rd, 4 points behind the other two.

As Race Officer I was ably assisted by Paul Clayden, Simon Liddell and George Beacroft
​Apologies for the lack of photos we were to busy racing and having fun. (Mike Ewart)



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  • Home
    • News @ Six
  • About
    • History
    • Radio Sailing
    • Free Sailing
    • Boatography
  • Six Competitions/Reports/Results
    • 2021 Competitions
    • 2020 Competitions >
      • Report Fleetwood Open 26/1/20
    • 2019 Competitions >
      • NOR Sextant Trophy 2019
      • Report 2019 National Championship, 7th and 8th September 2019 Dartmoor MBC
      • Report Fleetwood Open 25/8/2019
      • Fleetwood Open Meeting 25th August 2019
      • Report Midland League Series R3
      • Doug Tomlinson Vase 29th June 2019
      • Introduction to the 2019 National Championship
      • Report Midland League Series R2
      • Report Midland League Series R1
      • Report Fleetwood Open 14th April 2019
      • Notice of Race, Fleetwood
      • Results and Notice of Race, SW District 6m Championship
      • Report Shearwater Trophy 5th May 2019
      • Notice of Race Shearwater Trophy 2019
    • 2018 Competitions >
      • 6th May 2018 Shearwater Trophy, Broads RYC
      • 2nd June 2018 Dartmoor SWD R6m Championship
      • 30th June 2018 Tomlinson Vase, Harwich & Dovercourt MBC
      • 1st/2nd September National Championship 2018, Bournville RS&MBC
      • 4th November, Sextant Trophy, Lee Valley MYC
    • 2017 Competitions >
      • 28th October 2017 - Midlands District Championship >
        • MDC Entry Form
      • 23rd September Open - Abington Park MYC
      • 19th August Two Islands Open Report
      • 16th July Sextant Trophy, 2002T R2 Lee Valley MYC
      • 17th June Dartmoor Open
      • 13th/14th May 2017 Six Metre National Championship
      • 16th April Shearwater Trophy Broads RYC
      • 25th March Two Islands RYC
      • 25th February APMYC @ Hollowell SC Open
    • 2016 Competitions >
      • 26th & 27th March MYA National
      • 12th November Hollowell SC Open
    • 2015 Competitions >
      • MYA National Championship 2015
    • 2002 Trophy Series >
      • 2002 Trophy History
  • Rules
    • 2017 Proposed Rule Amendments
    • Measurement & Registration >
      • A picture guide to measurement
  • Design & Build
    • Available Plans
    • Planking >
      • Introduction
      • Part One
      • Part Two
      • Part Three
      • Part Four
    • John Lewis Designs
    • Graham Bantock Designs
    • Michel Selig II
    • Romanza Build Blog
  • Clubs
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  • Contact
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    • UK Competition Update 2020
    • Average Windspeeds for previous Nationals venues