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Kippford
Week from the Dinghy Committee Boat by Duncan Gillespie
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Week from the Cruiser Committee Boat by Lindsay Tosh
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Week Cruisers by John Searle
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- 'The
Best of Kippford Week'
When
the sun shines Kippford sparkles, add a good breeze
and we have one of the best and most beautiful sailing
venues in the UK.
Kippford
Week Report by Duncan Gillespie - Sailing Secretary
The
annual Kippford Week finished last week with a total
of 70 boats competing in a number of classes. These
included 4 cruiser fast handicaps, 3 cruiser slow
handicaps, 10 Flying Fifteen's, 9 dinghy fast handicaps,
29 dinghy medium handicaps which included 6 Laser
Standards and 6 GP14's, 10 dinghy slow handicaps and
5 Laser Radials. The dinghy fast handicap included
2 catamarans a Formula 18 and a Spitfire. Handicap
racing uses a system called Portsmouth Yards stick
which is used in a calculation with the time taken
to complete the race. The theory of the formula is
that if everything is equal the answer to the formula
will result in the same time for each boat.
David Dunstan and Willie Patterson were the race officers
for Cruiser/Flying Fifteen's and Dinghies respectively.
Apart from Friday this was not an easy job in light
shifting winds. On Wednesday as with Wednesday of
Cadet Week the dinghy racing was abandoned before
they started and the cruisers and flying fifteens
were abandoned after they had started because they
were becalmed.
Competitors return year after year and even when Bassenthwaite
is running their sailing week at the same time numbers
between both events are similar. However, the Flying
Fifteen fleet remains strong when considering that
Cowes has 12 Flying Fifteen competitors against Kippford
Weeks 10.
Kippford Week Prizes presented by Commodore's Wife
Christine Benson.
Jack Cup for Cruiser Fast Handicap: John Searle/Stewart
Monaghan/Gareth Jones in Kintra
Ospray Trophy for Cruiser Slow Handicap: Colin Stewart/Robert
Stewart/Charles Stewart/Jane Stewart in Golightly
Solway Salver for first Flying Fifteen: Scott Train/Anne
Stewart in Iffor the Engine
Johnstone Cup for first SYC Flying Fifteen: Colin
Filer/Jamie Gasgoine in Fi-Fo-IV
Loundon Cup for first fast dinghy handicap: Robin
Towart/Douglas Hay in an ISO called Isoholic
Dee Cup for first medium dinghy handicap: Euan Towart/Eilidh
MacDonald in an RS200 called Face Up RS Down
Neville MacDonald Quaich for first Laser Radial: Stewart
Biggar in Scaur Tissue
Percy Quaich for first under 21 in Laser Radial: Campbell
Benson
Laser Cup for first Laser Standard: Richard Colbeck
in Black Magic
Enterprise Cup: Jamie Dinwiddie/Fergus Dinwiddie in
Flying E
Muckle Pot, Pine Tor Shield and McEwan Rose Bowl for
first Mirror, best SYC and Under 15: Robert Johnstone/Matt
Downing in Don't Stop Me Now
Rathan Cup and Screel Cup for first Topper and Under
15: James Kelly in Blue Streak
The
Poser Prize for the most conspicuous craft & crew
went to Jim Prentice sailing his catamaran. In a capsize
his crew fell around 5 feet from upper hull down onto
the boats boom and bent it.
Eagle
Trophy for High Flyer went to Angus Johnstone a young
lad who while about to start his race sailed over to
the committee boat and picked up an ensign from the
water which had been flying from the back of the committee
boat. A 420 had caught it and snapped the flagstaff
while making what was an illegal manoeuvre at their
start. He then gently came along side and handed it
back before starting his race.
