HD Sails/Ceildeh Phantom Midland Traveller Series
Burton Sailing Club 23rd October 2021 – Finale’
Burton Sailing Club hosted the final event of the Phantom Midland Traveller series this year. It was all close at the top of the placings leading into this event with Charlie Chandler (Bowmoor S.C.) currently topping the series by one point from Mike Webster (Northampton S.C.) closely followed by Jim Hopton (Shustoke S.C.)
Burton welcomed the visitors joining the home club boats and put together a tidy set of four races in testing gusty and shifty conditions.
Race one saw the much improved Tom ‘hotdog’ Gissane (Bowmoor S.C.)with his new HD Sail still warm form the sail loft, lead most of the race with lots of action and changing places behind him in very close racing. However Charley pulled through on the down wind leg to take the line with Tom in second and Mike managing third in front of Ollie Hopkins (Bowmoor S.C.) desperately wanting to stop a 1,2,3 from Bowmoor !
Race two followed back to back with a change to the course and saw Charlie lead the fleet with Mike closely chasing him round the race track. Richard Nurse (Northampton S.C.) and Jim Hopton (ShustokeS.C.) also had there own battle in third and forth. Mike managed to sniff out a cheeky shift on the last beat to pull into the lead and take line honors with Charlie, Richard and Jim following.
After brief lunch, races three and four got underway with Charlie showing his pace ahead of Jim, with Tom again showing his new boat speed…. One two three in that order.
The final race was dominated by Richard who lead from start to finish pushing him up the results with Charlie another consistent second and Steve Ward ( Bartley S.C.) ghosting past Mike on the last run to the finish.
Barton SC – Overall
1st - Charlie Chandler (Bowmoor S.C.)
2nd - Richard Nurse (Northampton S.C.)
3rd - Mike Webster (Northampton S.C.)
The overall series amended from five events to four, has now been completed which has seen 44 entrants and a core group of sailors competing in most of the regional events.
Congratulations to Charlie Chandler for winning the 2021 Midland Traveller Series title for 2021
A full set of results can be seen on the Phantom Website : http://www.phantomclass.org.uk
A special thanks must go to all those who travelled to the events from outside the region as far away as the Lake District, North Yorkshire and the South West…. Well done you guys, you know who you are !
Most notable improved sailors of the series has to go to three individuals who are all new to the class this year, Matt Velamail – Beaver S.C. , Tom ‘hotdog’ Gissane – Bowmoor S.C. and Evan Base – Midland S.C.
Also our thanks to HD Sails and Ceildeh carbon masts for their continued support and kind sponsorship of the series this year.
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