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Drama at Carsington as
George and Cliff score equal points
From Nigel Harrison
(Photos Pauline Love, CSC
and click for more photos)
If you were not there, you missed a good thrash
about the water last weekend. Arriving to force 4 gusting 5 winds and
lovely sunshine.
I met friendly Daryl and Yvonne with their new Catapult, Norman was
rigging his boat. John Pep, Dave Alastair and I had been there on Friday
and created four marvellous racing machines from a pile of metal, rubber
tubing and wire much to the amazement of the Carsington crowds.
Saturday saw Stuart, Gareth and Neal arrive to create equally amazing
contraptions in half the time. Cliff and Jo, George and Margaret had
cunningly wired ahead and had the lake drained to reveal a South of
France like beach where they parked their luxury camper vans and sun
loungers. The rest of us Catapulters (as we like to call ourselves)
flocked down to the beach and created a colourful sight of 11 Catapults
blowing in the breeze.

Above: the leaders upwind in the first Race 1: Stuart holds
off Paul and
Gareth
Saturday produced three races.
(Click here
for race write-ups) The boss (AKA Paul) battling it out with
Gareth Cliff, Stuart and George with your truly leading the rear
watching the impressive skills of John, Neal, Alastair, George
and Dave ahead of me.
In the prize giving the “good turnout of Catapults” was
mentioned three times. Something to do with our presence at the
Saturday dinner when the Dart 15 and A class crowds were moved
aside to make the biggest table available for our noisy but
friendly crowd.
The Catapult fleet continues to grow whilst I am sure that the
Dart 15 fleet is now much smaller than I remember. The reporter
from Hello magazine asked ne the secret of our success, ANP I
replied “Awfully Nice People” I replied led by our head ANP John
Pep who then spent the next 40 minutes plying the attractive
reporter with G&T, “Watch out for the Catapult article in a
future edition of Hello Magazine, please let me know when you
see it.
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(Above: Neal and George tight upwind in Race Three)
Oh yes and there was more
and faster racing on Sunday, with force six gusts, manly trapezing,
masses of spray the sort of day when you turn onto a reach and instantly
sit back on the transom and far back as possible. It is a testament to
the Catapulters skills that we had no capsizes.
Another great weekend, thank you to all the
contributors who took part
(Any correlation to factual events in this report
is purely accidental) Nigel

(Above:
after the start, Race 2: John, Neal, George and Alastair, the A's up
ahead)
Full Results
(Click
here for
Race writeups)
Place |
sail no. |
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Points |
1 |
91 |
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Gareth Ede |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
507 |
|
Paul Ellis |
9 |
3 |
3 |
12 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
510 |
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George Evans |
12 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
17 |
|
Cliff Antill |
14 |
8 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
531 |
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Stuart Ede |
15 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
7 |
5 |
6 |
513 |
|
Alastair Forrest |
24 |
7 |
7 |
6 |
4 |
7 |
7 |
512 |
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Neal Graneau |
24 |
6 |
6 |
7 |
6 |
6 |
8 |
522 |
|
Nigel Harrison |
30 |
9 |
8 |
5 |
12 |
8 |
9 |
530 |
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John Peperell |
56 |
5 |
9 |
21 |
21 |
21 |
10 |
2090 |
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David Jennings |
64 |
12 |
10 |
21 |
21 |
21 |
11 |
269 |
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Norman Taverner |
79 |
16 |
21 |
21 |
21 |
21 |

The leaders reaching, Race Three: Paul
holds off Stuart and Gareth
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