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Selden SailJuice Winter Series 2019/20, OVERALL RESULTS - UK
06/03/2020 - 06/03/2020
 

Write-Up

Selden SailJuice Winter Series 2019/20 - OVERALL RESULTS
 
656 Entries, 82 Classes, 198 Clubs, 7 Events, 18 Races! The RS Aero sailors did the Class proud, both for performance and for attendance! The Series consisted of seven events were held through the winter at Draycote, Datchet, Yorkshire Dales, Grafham, Queen Mary, King George and Rutland, before the final 8th event at Oxford was scuppered by Storm Dennis the Menace!
 
Tim and Peter managed to show the RS Aero 7 as an excellent all rounder, achieving good counting results across the wind range and racing hard in tough conditions when more complex boats began to struggle. They ended the series in 2nd & 4th overall, a fantastic feat from the huge 656 entry list! Peter pulled off an event win at the Datchet Flyer whilst Tim sailed to a close 2nd in his fleet at Grafham and took the overall Top Youth title.
 
The RS Aero 9s of Greg and Chris showed that the 9 can be raced hard in a gale as well as having power and agility in the light, when they were both amongst the few boats that completed the course at Rutland on Big Saturday. Chris put together an excellent series to take 15th overall.
 
The RS Aero 5s took to the SailJuice series in big numbers this winter, having the largest Class entry at 3 of the 7 events. They created a new all time Class entry record for the SailJuice Series with 37 entries at the Bloody Mary. Abby and Abigail achieved a noteworthy 27th and 30th overall in the series.
 
Sam Baker showed how the RS Aero 5s love to get up and go in a breeze winning the SpeedSix Top Speed Challenge with the top GPS (PY adjusted) speed of the series from 635 contestants with 13.25kn average recorded over 20 secs at Rutland. The fast planing RS Aeros took six of the top ten PY adjusted speeds with all three rigs scoring highly!
 
Lymington Town SC scored Top Club from 198 Clubs after grafting away diligently right to the end of the series to spring to the top after big bad Rutland. Their nine boat team included three RS Aero 7s (Peter, Tim and Joe) and three RS Aero 5s (William, Kate & Natasha) to take the £350 Trident UK voucher and the large framed photo for the Club.
 
After a close tustle with the Lasers & GP14s through the series the RS Aero 7 Class took 2nd placed Class accolade from 82 Classes, one better than last year's 3rd. We look forward to taking the last step up to the top of that podium next winter! The RS Aero 5s gathered momentum towards the end of the series to climb to a commendable 10th. Will the ascending RS Aero 5s take on the RS Aero 7s next winter for that coveted title?
 
Huge thanks to SailJuice (Simon Lovesey and Andy Rice) for organising another great series, all the host clubs and to the continued support of Selden, Trident UK, Sailing Chandlery and SpeedSix.  A special thank you to Rutland PRO, David Wilkins, for giving us all the opportunity to experience what will be one of the most excitingly challenging days dinghy racing of this year - Big Saturday at Rutland's Tiger Trophy with peak gust of 45kn recorded on the lake whilst racing! 
 


Results

RS AERO SUMMARY RESULTS 
 
Selden SailJuice Winter Series 2019/20 - OVERALL
Best 4 of 7 events. 656 entries! 
2nd Peter BARTON, RS Aero 7, LYMINGTON TOWN SC
4th Tim Hire, RS Aero 7, LYMINGTON TOWN SC/ ROYAL LYMINGTON YC
15th Chris LARR, RS Aero 9, NORTHAMPTON SC
27th Abby HIRE, RS Aero 5, ROYAL LYMINGTON YC
30th Abigail LARR, RS Aero 5, NORTHAMPTON SC

Sailing Chandlery - TOP CLASS
Based on best 3 results for each class across every race. 82 Classes entered! 
2nd RS Aero 7 Class
10th RS Aero 5 Class

Trident - TOP CLUB
Based on best 3 results for each class across every race. 198 Clubs entered!
The Lym Town SC team had three RS Aero 7s and three RS Aero 5s in its nine boat team.
1st Lymington Town SC

YOUTH
Scored across every race of the series. 138 entries 
1st Tim HIRE, RS Aero 7
5th Abigail LARR, RS Aero 5
7th Ollie WILLIAMSON, RS Aero 5
8th Abby HIRE, RS Aero 5

JUNIOR
Scored across every race of the series. 97 entries 
3rd Abigail LARR, RS Aero 5
4th Abby HIRE, RS Aero 5

FEMALE
Scored across every race of the series. 65 entries 
3rd Abigail LARR, RS Aero 5
4th Ellie CRAIG, RS Aero 7
5th Abby HIRE, RS Aero 5
10th Alice LUCY, RS Aero 5
11th Harriet CRITCHLEY, RS Aero 5
15th Lily BARRETT, RS Aero 5
18th Yana SKVORTSOVA, RS Aero 5
20th Ellen CAMPBELL, RS Aero 7
26th Emily DAVIS, RS Aero 5

RS AERO 5
Scored across every race of the series. 39 entries 
1st Abigail LARR
2nd Ollie WILLIAMSON
3rd Abby HIRE
 
RS AERO 7
Scored across every race of the series. 29 entries 
1st Tim HIRE
2nd Peter BARTON
3rd Ellie CRAIG
 
RS AERO 9
1st Chris Larr
2nd Greg Bartlett 

SpeedSix - SPEED CHALLENGE (PY adjusted) 
Sam Blaker in his RS Aero 5 recorded 13.25kn, to take the overall adjusted speed title of the whole series from 635 contestants! RS Aeros love a fast reach and took 6 of the Top Ten spots!
Fastest sustained GPS speeds over 20 seconds.
1st Sam BLAKER, RS Aero 5, 13.25kn (PY adjusted speed of 15.05kn))
5th Chris LARR, RS Aero 9, 13.62kn
6th Peter BARTON, RS Aero 7, 12.96kn
7th Simon GEYMAN, RS Aero 7, 12.8kn
8th Fergus PYE, RS Aero 5, 11.97kn
9th Ned STATTERSFIELD, RS Aero 5, 11.86kn

Selden SailJuice Winter Series 2019/20 - OVERALL RESULTS




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