Boat Show 'Battle of the Classes' Pursuit Race

grazz · 07 Dec 2006, 09:58

Yachts & Yachting are again sponsoring the 'Battle of the Classes' Pursuit Race, on Sunday 14th January at the London Boat show. Racing is in the dock just outside ExCel. 12s have taken part for the last 4 years. Last year there were 44 different classes entered in total.

Each entry receives two free tickets to the show.

Are you up for representing the class in the race?

Please let me know

Graham

rick perkins · 12 Dec 2006, 05:53

Very shifty in the dock and slower boats with no kites probably have a good chance of a result.

How have the 12's done in the past?

regards,

Rick

Mikey C · 12 Dec 2006, 07:01

I'm pretty sure we've only done it for three years. There wasn't actually a race the year Grazz did it, I finished 9th ish 2 years ago and I think Dave Wilkins managed top 10 last year aswell...

It's actually pretty good spectating aswell, I got some great shots from the bridge the first year!

DavidW · 12 Dec 2006, 09:06

Yes - we were 9th, I think Mike is being modest I'm pretty certain he and Emma managed 4th or 5th. For a good part of the race a top 4 looked likely for us too but the wind came up a bit more at towards the end.

It certainly was shifty.

It was a very long drive from home - if there are no other takers nearer I might volunteeras I believe we should be represented.

Cheers

philipcosson · 16 Dec 2006, 08:59

boing

DavidW · 14 Mar 2007, 10:51

How did team Gifford do??

Cheers

Antony (Guest) · 15 Mar 2007, 08:10

The 12 team did fine, bringing home the team prize with a 2nd (Frances and Sophie) and a 4th (myself and Jo). Suffice to say that the conditions were about as good as you could get in that dock, sunny with a nice breeze almost straight down the dock. The Asym spinnaker was no help to anybody, and as a result the Fireball won and a Finn got in between us. Fortunately the Fireball had no mate, and so we won the class prize pretty easily from the Finns.

Antony

Jimbo41 · 15 Mar 2007, 09:14

Well done folks!

Just goes to show you don't automatically win with an asymmetric spinnaker.....

Have you by any chance a list of the positions?

Jim.

Alex D · 15 Mar 2007, 03:18

The Yachts and Yachting article here. Not much detail on results though.

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=24584

Jimbo41 · 15 Mar 2007, 03:23

Have to wait for the footage on snail TV then....

Boat Show 'Battle of the Classes' Pursuit Race

Antony (Guest)