J/80 and J/109s Tangle For Solent Bragging Rights
(Hamble, So'ton, England- Oct 10-11)- This past weekend saw the J/80s and J/109s race for their Autumn Championships.
The ten boat J/109 One-Design class again saw class leaders David and Kirsty Apthorp on J-DREAM cruise to a first overall with a 3-1-3-1-1 set of finishes. Guy Knight's team aboard BETH jumped into second overall on the podium with a 4-2-1-4-5 record. And, in third was Adam Wright and Martin Miller racing VELVET ELLIS/ JOUSTER into third with finishes of 5-7-2-2-2.
For the eleven boat J/80 class, it looked like the top three from the weekend before agreed to flip-flop their positions! Thor Askeland proved that his team on ELLE SAPELLE was only warming up from the weekend before and walked off with the J/80 Autumn Championships with a 2-8-1-2-5-1-1 score sheet. Hanging in there as he'd done the week before was Ian Atkins (yea, that Boats.com guy) racing none other than BOATS.COM into second on the podium with a 3-6-5-1-4-3-2 record. John Cooper racing O!! couldn't seem to get a consistent series off but nevertheless managed to avoid too many disastrous decisions on the race track and while starting off with a bullet, rode the roller-coaster to a 1-10-6-4-1-2-5 tally. Full results click here. Regatta Photos by Paul Wyeth.
