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Race events at SSC 2008

Race events at SSC

Sunday 16th March Start of racing season
Easter Monday 24th March Spring Trophy (one day event)
Saturday 26th April Saturday racing starts
Monday 5th May Z11 Trophy (one day event)
Wednesday 7th May Wednesday evening racing starts
Monday 26th May Picnic Race
Saturday 7th June Regatta Pot (1100hrs)
Sunday 8th June Dowty Mining Trophy (one day event)
Sunday 22nd June Midsummer Madness (0600hrs)
Sunday 22nd June Bridge Trophy (1400hrs)
Sunday 29th June Ladies’ Trophy (1130hrs)
Sundays 6th & 13th July Mini Series
Saturday 26th July Supernova Open
Sunday 27th July Seahorse Trophy (one day event)
Sunday 24th August Tailenders‘ Trophy (1130hrs)
Monday 25th August Severn Shield (one day event)
Saturday 6th September Comet Open
Sunday 7th September Junior Trophy (1400hrs)
Sunday 14th September Top Helm Trophy (Match Racing in club boats)
Sunday 21st September Long Distance Trophy
Saturday & Sunday
27th & 28th September LANT Open
Sunday 26th October Bone of Contention (Team Racing in club boats)

Non SSC Events

Saturday & Sunday 14th & 15th June Comet Association Champs at Bexhill on Sea
Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th August Comet Nationals at Hunts S.C.

RESULTS FOR SSC COMPETITORS FOR BOWMOOR YOUTH REGATTA
4th November 2006

3rd overall Jon Cooper Comet
5th overall Matthew Holbourn Laser
7th overall Hannah Holbourn Laser

With a total of 19 competitors Jon Cooper also won the Gloucestershire Schools Regatta with results taken as a separate event within the regatta.

In early October Jon and Tristan Cooper took part in the national sailing finals of the ‘Sea Cadets’ at Whale Island in Portsmouth with over 40 competitors from all over the UK including Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In the ‘Open Bosun’ class Jon Cooper achieved gold against competitors up to 4 years his senior whilst Tristan achieved individual silver and team gold in the ‘Topper’ class.
A big well done for all the juniors who are flying the SSC flag, and who knows what dizzy heights some of these young sailors are going to get to if they keep on like this!!
On 25th November Daniel Moon is also crewing aboard a 37 footer in the ‘Sunsail’ Round the Cans final in the Solent.

YACHT RACING - PORT SOLENT MARCH 2006

This weekend, organised annually by Allan Utteridge in conjunction with Sunsail charter company, was supported by two crews from SSC. The ‘premier’ crew, comprising Dave Harris, Paul Grainger, Helen Leivers, Chris Leivers, Daniel Moon, Roland West, Andy Griffin and Craig managed an excellent 3rd overall, wining a bottle of champers and a free sail in the autumn. Congratulations to those guys. That’s all about them, my story is of the ‘B’ team’s weekend.

Friday night then saw all crews arriving and allocated their yacht for the weekend, which were 37 ft Jeanneaus. Then it was off to the pub for pre-race tactics and race planning. No, I have that wrong ! It was beer, merriment and more beer.

So, Saturday morning, we locked out of Port Solent 0830, 1st race due to start at 1030. The ‘B’ crew comprised Allan Utteridge, Dick Judge, Nick Moon, Tom Griffin, Simon Tebbutt, Pete Sollars and Richard, who was to be our helmsman for the weekend.
Imagine the conversation :
Richard : “Is everyone happy with gybing the spinnaker?”
Crew : “Urgh! Are we going to use a spinnaker?”
Richard : “Would you like me to go through the procedure?”
Crew : “Yea Yea Yea please do”
Richard : “Is everyone happy about the procedure for raising the spinnaker?”
Crew : stony silence.
Richard : “Does everyone know what job they are doing?”
Crew : stony silence.
So, it was well established that we had no idea about spinnaker work. It’s worth noting at this point that, unlike cruising, you must work the spinnaker if you intend to compete. Richard had every intention of competing. Therefore in 1 hour he trained a crack spinnaker team. Nick and Tom were at the work end, attaching/removing sail, pole on, pole off, untangle this, sort that out etc. Simon was on anything that was controlled from or attached to the mast. Pete was on clutches. Alan and Dick on pole and clew control.

There are four races of approx. 2hrs duration. On Saturday they were sailed in force 4-5 winds, rainy, visibility down to 1 mile.

Our next problem was course planning. Since nobody was proficient at using the GPS, I’m afraid this was a bit ‘hit and miss’. Instant, bearing and distance to the next waypoint would have given our helm a better chance to work out the best course.

On one occasion, the Genoa started to come down. Yells from the safety of the stern “Come on chaps get that !*!*!*! Genoa back up quick !!” .There was poor bedraggled Simon with the cleat for the Genoa halyard loose in his hand. The spare spinnaker halyard was used to do the job.

The raising of the spinnaker was never trouble free. I’m sure Nick and Tom experienced and endured every possible problem. Give them due credit, the majority were sorted in a calm manner. The occasional flare up of frustration may have been heard.

The ‘B’ crew finished 9th & 10th on Saturday. Then it was off to Cowes for an evening of beer, merriment and more beer.

On Sunday the wind was slightly stronger, force 4-5-6, and it rained more. Visibility at worst was 1 mile.

Our best race was the last, finishing 4th, it must be said, within a stones throw of the ‘premier’ crew. On the last down wind leg of this race Richard asked if we wanted to raise the spinnaker again. There was firstly horror on the faces from the bow, then smiles of relief as he agreed not to. At this point everyone, except the young un (Tom) was completely kn…….d .

Our thanks go out to Alan for organising this event, and particularly to Richard, who was an inspiration to us all. We were motivated into tasks we would otherwise not have taken on.
He has a great catch phrase “Believe me!, Trust me!” We did, and survived.

Pete