10 Mini 40′s made it to the first day of the Gosport Club Championships on the 29th of October. A good mix of 6 home boats, 2 from Yeovil, 1 from Coalhouse Fort and 1 from Bristol and a variety of catamaran and trimaran designs made up the fleet.
Local hero Mike Dann made the best of the day in his catamaran with a solid scoreline especially when the breeze got up and most of the rest of the fleet were upside down!
Mike Cooke from Bristol was runner up with his Shinobi trimaran, showing great pace but a short attention span had him upside down one too many times and arriving late didn’t help matters!
Robbie Nevitt from Yeovil took the bronze medal in his own design trimaran. Robbie was well up there in the lighter airs races at the start of the day and made sure the Mikes’ didn’t have things all their own way.
Special mention must go to Pete Lawley with the flat pack ply tri, who put in some excellent races in the lighter airs and showed some real promise.
Point to point race winner was Mike Dann, winning by one second from Mike Cooke!
Final scores were:
- Mike Dann, Gosport, 19 points
- Mike Cooke, BCYC, 23 points
- Robbie Nevitt, Yeovil, 31 points
- Peter Fothergill, Gosport, 33 points
- Pete Lawley, Gosport, 47 points
- John Coster, Coalhouse Fort, 61 points
- John Smith, Gosport, 63 points
- Mervyn Cooke, Gosport, 64 points
- Keith Mendum, Gosport, 87 points
- Peter, Yeovil, 92 points
