SailRacer | Results for SB20 Nationals @SB20Class

Stormforce Coaching SB20 UK National Championships 2016

The final day of the SB20 Nationals dawned bright and sunny with a good Force 4 gusting 5 and with the Championship led by four points by James Peters in Uber from Rob Gullan in 3047.

Race seven started in a significant swell as the wind had backed to blow straight into the bay giving fantastic planing opportunities down wind. Joe Llewellyn in Forelle Estates headed right on the first beat to lead at the first mark from Rob Gullan and John Pollard. James Peters in Uber had played the centre to round fourth,

The crew on Charles Whelan's Here Comes Bod had an interesting first mark. They were ahead of Radley School's Trouble and Strife but Radley surfed down a wave towards them and Charles Whelan and Richard McAdam were caught under the sheet of the Radley spinnaker. When the spinnaker filled, the sheet lifted them off Here Comes Bod into the water leaving a startled Richard Hall alone in the boat.

Ahead Uber overtook John Pollard down the first run and caught Rob Gullan at the leeward mark when Rob's crew lost the tack line on their spinnaker and had to do an early drop. Joe Llewellyn then led James Peters to the finish followed by Paul Hine's Poor Buoy and John Pollard.

With Rob Gullan finishing fifth in Race 1, James Peters needed to finish race eight in fourth or better to win the National Championship with a race to spare. John Pollard went hard left from the start and came into the first mark in the lead from Rob Gullan, Joe Llewellyn and James Peters. With fantastic planing down the waves in bright October sunshine the sailing was superb. In the front four there was no place changing and John Pollard won the race while James Peters won the National Championships with a race to spare.

Race nine was won by Rob Gullan to confirm his second place in the Nationals with Paul Hine's Poor Buoy second from Joe Llewellyn and Charles Whelan's Here Comes Bod, recovering well after their first race swim. An even more impressive recovery was that of Poor Buoy. In the first race of the Championships they had a broken spreader which forced them to retire from three races and count two scores of 27. In the remaining six races of the Championships they were on average fourth and never below eighth which meant they finished seventh over all.

Congratulations again to Rob Llewellyn and his race team for getting three races completed by 1.00pm to allow early lifting and packing of boats and many thanks to Doug Innes and Stormforce Coaching for their sponsorship for the past three years.

Report by Tom Clay

Rank	SailNo	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	Nett
1	3720	James Peters	Morgan Peach	1	1	2	4	1	4	2	4	27	19
2	3047	Robert Gullan	Pieter Heyn	8	2	1	1	8	1	5	2	1	21
3	3724	John Pollard	Rob Smith	5	3	4	6	2	3	4	1	3	25
4	3732	Joe Llewellyn	Nigel Wakefield	2	6	3	3	7	6	1	3	5	29
5	3086	Chris Clyburn	Stuart Clyburn	11	5	5	2	3	7	12	12	6	51
6	3106	Tom Clay	Ed Morris	4	14	6	13	10	15	7	9	7	70
7	3149	Mark Gillett	Paul Hine	27	27	27	8	4	2	3	6	2	79
8	3082	C Sheppard	G Van Hollebeke	9	27	9	15	12	17	6	5	8	81
9	3021	Charles Whelan	Richard McAdam	10	13	18	11	6	9	17	14	4	84
10	3305	Gary Baker	Owen Bowerman	14	11	15	5	11	14	10	8	16	88
11	NED3555	Mark Snijder	Olivier Stuip	18	16	8	10	9	5	11	18	13	90
12	3473	Tom Methven	Paul Methven	12	10	27	14	14	11	15	13	11	100
13	3336	Barry Jobson	Jaimie Jobson	13	8	14	7	21	12	13	16	27	104
14	3740	Doug Innes	G Glover	20	7	12	21	18	20	9	10	9	105
15	3366	Phil Rumbelow	Mike Rutland	15	9	13	9	16	13	14	17	18	106
16	3053	Paddy Bettesworth	Genevieve Stringer	3	4	7	27	27	27	8	7	27	110
17	30	Garry Phare	Neil Spacagna	7	12	27	16	5	10	19	15	27	111
18	3276	George Barker	George Chilvers	16	17	16	12	19	8	20	14.7	14.7	117.4
19	3177	Andrew Bell	Alice Salisbury	21	18	11	18	22	16	21	11	10	126
20	3368	Peter Noe	James Greenwood	17	15	10	19	13	19	23	20	14	127
21	3316	Joe Hemmant	Tom Hemmant	19	21	17	17	17	21	18	21	12	142
22	3096	Roger Harford	Freddie Smith	22	19	27	20	15	22	16	19	15	148
23	3217	Arthur Bruce	Dan Neild	27	27	27	22	20	18	22	22	17	175
24	3135	Tom Savidge	Mike Sutton	23	22	19	23	23	27	27	27	27	191
25	3750	Jerry Hill	AlanHillman	6	27	27	27	27	27	27	27	27	195
26	3089	John Reekie	John Reekie	27	20	27	27	27	27	27	27	27	209

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