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MYA
National Championship
Bournville MY & PBC

26th & 27th March 2016
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 The weather forecaster said it all, she said it would blow and lo and behold she was only spot on. It didn’t rain like it was supposed to but everything happened as that nice lady said. The forecast had an effect on the entry, a couple pulled out for very legit reasons so the exceptional original entry of 17 was soon 15, and the heavy winds soon played its own sort of mild mayhem on the fleet.

String broke, wire stretched and assorted bits broke, electrics went poof, however the vast majority kept it together for the weekend. It didn’t take long for it to establish itself as four horse race between our illustrious President, that nice Derek Priestly and Shaun Holbeche from Fleetwood and home birds Peter Moore and Martin Dovey. Derek, Peter and Martin all sailing Renaissance's and Shaun with a Ravenna.


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Race Officer Mick Barnett made best possible use of the lake and the conditions and kept things moving at a very sensible pace in some difficult conditions, 26 races in all, not bad value for the weekend. The sailing was superbly handled by all, a credit to everyone who took part and the assorted pit crews sorted more problems that you could shake stick at, putting injured boats back on the water as quickly as they could.

All in all a cracking event, thoroughly enjoyed by everyone and it really bodes well for the life of this traditional class. The final finishing order was Derek, Peter, Shaun and Martin with Mark Dicks in a creditable fifth. Have a look at the HMS results sheet below and you can see that it was not a walk over for any one of the guys, all had their moments where they shone.
Host club Bournville made everyone welcome and were as usual were well organised, running bacon butties and plenty of hot drinks were very welcome.

There was a decent variety of designs to keep your eye on if you fancy one. The Renaissance, now 30 odd years old really is a cracker when it blows as the results show, Ravenna worked well as did Rococo, Romanza the latest Graham Bantock design also has huge promise and showed impressive speed especially down wind. John Taylor’s Drisky is no slouch either. If you want more information take a look arround the rest of the 6m web site and you can compare the looks and lines plus some more of the pictures from today.

There may be a bit of bias here if you are looking for close racing between boats with a traditional look, this is a magnificent class of boat, they are not speed machines, they have an ageless grace and they are huge pleasure to own and sail. They are worthy of larger audience and we can see the class take up is increasing into areas where they’ve never been before so hopefully the future is a bright one.

Bill Green, MYA Racing Secretary


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Rennaisance
Rennaisance
Ravenna
Rennaisance
Romanza
Dann 6
Romanza
Rococco
Rennaisance
Revival
Drisky
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  • Home
    • News @ Six
    • Mail Sign Up
  • About
    • History
    • Radio Sailing
    • Free Sailing
    • Boatography
  • Six Competitions/Reports/Results
    • 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
    • Six Metre Pond Yacht Restoration
  • Clubs
  • Suppliers
  • For Sale
  • Contact
  • Forum
  • Link Page
  • Miscellaneous
    • Average Windspeeds for previous Nationals venues