Due to an incident on the water, unrelated to the regatta, AP over 1 has been signalled from the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club racebox, the coordination center for safety matters for Burnham Week, postponing the Pile House line starts by 2 hours.
As the dinghy fleets were to start from the Burnham Sailing Club line, the up river racing went on as scheduled, the two dinghy fleets being joined by 25 young sailors, for their Beastie event.
In the ILCA/Laser fleet, Duncan De Boltz, ILCA 7/Laser scored two wins and a second, to move to the second spot overall, behind James Hutton-Penman, ILCA 6/Laser Radial, with two second places and a win, while Keith Gilmore, ILCA 6/Laser Radial dropped to the third place, with 2 fourths and a third. In Prior family news, Lucie overtook her dad, Adam, to 4th place and with 2 more races to go and only 1 point difference, this battle is the one to watch.
The Dinghy Fast Handicap saw the Burnham Sailing Club own Alice Davis and Jemma Cook, RS200, snatch the top spot overnight from Richard Smith and John Barnes’ Albacore, with the other BSC RS200, Jo Tribe and Marcus Collingbourne, sit on 3rd place. Local legend and river veteran, Ant Law, spending the regatta in a Graduate with a selection of crews, managed to not capsize and with 2 fives and a 3rd, had a much improved day.
25 young sailors, from quite a number of clubs, joined the BSC line for their Burnham Beastie event, with 3 races sailed. The ILCA division was won by… Read More
