SWSSA Racing 29th and 30th May 2010 at Kippford

The SWSSA Rosebowl was competed for at Solway Yacht Club over the weekend. It is an Interclub completion open to all sailing clubs in south west Scotland. Three clubs from the association turned up with 5 boats coming from Lock Ryan, 7 boats from Annandale and 9 from Solway. The race courses on the two days were extremely varied with a south westerly of 2/3 strength and raining on Saturday and a north easterly of 4/5 strength and sunny on Sunday. Although on both days there was a cold and biting wind.

The racing was extremely close on both days with leading teams changing race by race and the final results proved this at the end of racing with Annandale and Solway on 5 points each. Annandale's Commodore, Ian Murgatroyd, was awarded the Rosebowl with a first and fourth place. John Beardon from Annandale, helming the 420, was sailing above the boats PY number and after being second overall to Colin Filer, helming his Flying Fifteen, from Solway on day one overtook Colin on the second day to get first place and also win the junior and overall individual trophies. This enabled Annandale to take the team trophy. Although Solway take the moral victory as John's crew, Flora Stewart, was a Solway member.

In second place overall was Colin Filer in his Flying fifteen. Taking third place overall and second for Solway ably supporting Colin was Anna Grafton also helming a Flying Fifteen. And fourth place overall and second for Annandale was Carol Beattie helming her GP14.

Although the Loch Ryan boats did not get into the first four overall they were certainly in the mix with Fred Fuller helming the Bahia and Jude Baird helming in the RS200 well up the final rankings. The RS200 unfortunately was disqualified in race two on the first day for jump starting and not rectifying their error. This was their undoing.
Next event at Solway is the Hestan Isle Pursuit race on 13 June 2010.

Full results here