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 Eskimo 2011 

It was a great days sailing, having had feedback from shore based sailors who didn't bother to bring their boats, that they were kicking themselves to miss such a good event and sailing day. 

With frozen lakes and slipways around the North of England one of the few places “Ice Free” was the fast flowing tidal River Wyre. Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Clubs traditionally 1st  open meeting of the year took place on 9 January in sunshine and 15ish kts of wind from the West, not so warm though. That did not stop 48 teams from 15 different sailing clubs around the North of England gathering to take place in this pursuit event for a trophy that has many world champion names on it such as Laurie Smith, Ian Pinnell, Steve Goacher, Matt Mee and this year Dave Winder and Pippa Taylor from Hollingwoth Lake Sailing Club in their Merlin Rocket got their names on it sailing a very good race, especially when watched from the shore. 

New Commodore Stuart Fitton welcomed everyone at the race briefing then the crews headed on to the river for the start The 12:50 start was delayed for a few minutes while the wind settled, however, with the gusty shifty conditions this got most of the capsizes out of the way before the start. First away was the Graduate of D.Ivins and L Johnson from Bolton Sailing Club, then an gallery of dinghies of various designs and ages, GPs, Enterprises, Cfly, Lasers, Phantoms, Blazes, Merlins, RSs and a couple of Ospreys, a fine sight! 

The interesting, but taxing course set by OOD A. Roe was of a high enough standard for the level of competence on the water  which left some of the sailing spectators wishing they were on the water. 

Although this event will never be as popular as the Lord Birkett at Ullswater due to the time of year they are held it is certainly a “Must Do” event, even if you do it only once!

The excellent prizes provided by Steve Cockerill at Rooster Sails make it worthwhile too; Commodores Lady, Julie Fitton, kindly presented these. A good event and well organised by the Dinghy Committee .

 Next year's event is scheduled for Sunday 26 February 2012  Start 12.30


 
Eskimo Results
1st Merlin Rocket  3662   Dave Winder, Pippa Taylor 
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2nd Merlin Rocket 3678   Steve Cook Matt Calvert  
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3rd  RS 200             1311   Christian Bell Emma Norris
4th Merlin Rocket  3670   Steve Goacher Chris Robinson RWYC
 
 
 


2010 PHOTO GALLERY

ESKIMO RACE 2010 RESULTS.

Pos’n Class Sail No Helm  Crew Club
1 RS200 1296 Chris Pickles Laura Westell Delph 
2 420 52151 Matt Mee Christian Birrell Hollingworth Lake
3 Phantom 1258 Mark Bamber   B&FYC
4 RS200 1311 Alastair Norris Frederick Mainwaring Red Wharf Bay 
5 RS200 1324 Jonny Mc Louin Sarah Williams Port Dinorwic
6 Graduate 2929 Chris Parker Diane Blackburn Southport 
7 Enterprise 22272 Charles Adams Ollie Hilliker West Lancs
8 Enterprise 23158 Edward Pilling David Bonstead Arnside 
9 RS400 460 David Wilkinson John Counsell B&FYC
10 Phantom 1196 Ian Brooker   B&FYC
11 Merlin Rocket 3597 Peter Jackson Andrew Airnes B&FYC
12 RS400 953 Stuart Halman Steve Dawson Leigh & Lowton
13 Merlin Rocket 3493 Mike Hamilton Jonathen Bullen B&FYC
14 Merlin Rocket 3663 Chris Haworth Joanne Harvey B&FYC
15 Graduate 2878 David Ivins Lesley Johnson Bolton
16 Fireball 14801 Niki Birrell Malcolm Marsden B&FYC
17 Phantom 1260 Paul Reid   B&FYC
18 Laser 179656 Greg Marshall   West lancs
19 GP14 13849 Ed Thomas Alex Pilkington Bolton & Pilkington
20 RS200 807 Hannah Marsden Dawn Wilkinson B&FYC
21 Laser 8.1 257 Nick Powell   B&FYC
22 Laser 141415 Tim Luke   Killington
23 Streaker 1698 Steve Schofield   B&FYC
24 Laser 137933 Lee Macgregor   B&FYC
25 Phantom 1162 Paul Long   B&FYC
26 Mirror 70515 Edward Grey Beth Grey Royal Windermere
27 Laser 91251 Peter Dilks   B&FYC
RTD Laser Radial 191709 Megan Adams   West Lancs
RTD GP14 12544 Nick Holt Derek Hill B&FYC
RTD Laser 2000   Kevin Berry Tracey Berry B&FYC
RTD Fireball 13844 Martin Knott Antony Adshead Ribble
RTD RS500 681 Gary Stephenson Anne Stephenson Delph
RTD Byte 1677 Nigel Edmundson   B&FYC
 

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