Thames Sailing Club
China Bowl and Vintage Merlin Open
Back to my second favourite A Rater; Scamp for one of the main regatta’s in the Thames Sailing Club Calender: The China Bowl. Not named because it’s made of china, more due to the delicate Chinese patterns on the outside. This trophy has been awarded since 1889; so there is a long history behind it. 6 back to back races over two days.
Jonathan Smith did us proud with 3 of the “best starts of his life” (his words not mine), which meant we managed to get three firsts on day one. Evenings entertainment was the infamous Dunn Cocktail party; this year Justin had included the Dark and Stormy to the list which transported me back to the two wonderful weeks in the BVI earlier in the year.
Sunday morning, woke up, expecting a hangover and thankfully I had paced myself and got a relatively early night for TSC standards only for it to be “Blowing Old Boots”, probably 15-17 and gusting to 25 knots; seen as we have a self imposed limit of 25 knots for the Raters Stuart "Vice Commodore" Gurney our Race Officer of the day decided after much deliberation to abandon the racing for the day. So we actually won on the Saturday. It was all a bit of let down if I am honest with you; I would have much rather gone out and won it fair and square on the Sunday. But - Glorious British Summer Time - wins out for this year.
Results:
1st Scamp: Jonathan Smith, Melanie Hardman, Andre Bajaria
2nd Vagabond: Paul Armitage, Karen Armitage, Patrick Manwell.
3nd Lady Iona: Guy Woods, Julian Cocker, Alastair McDonald.
Words by Mel Hardman
Page last updated: 09/07/2008 12:41:00
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