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Hyde dominates Squib fleet at Burnham
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Hyde Sails fills the top four places of the class series during Burnham Week, an impressive display of their strength in the class
A three-day series was run for he Squib class during Burnham Week, with some 23 boats going on to compete in the whole week. Coming out of Squib 'retirement' for three-day series was Hyde's Cowes loft manage Rob Larke, who sailed Nigel Grogan's boat for the event.
The fleet was greeted with 15 knots of breeze over the weekend from the west, so competitors enjoyed the entertainment of running starts all weekend. First overall was Peter Marchant's 'Tears in Heaven', which was driven by Hyde Sails, second was another Hyde powered boat, Malcom Hutching's 'Lady Penelope', while Robert Cole's 'Humphrey' in third completed a Hyde sweep of the podium, with Hyde's Rob Larke taking fourth.
I was a challenging return to the fleet for the Hyde loft manager. Rob Larke commented: 'I last sailed a Squib nine years ago. The fleet hasn’t changed much and is still as competitive as ever! It was always going to be hard with running starts and 25 Squibs arriving at the first mark at the same time, so you have to be fast downwind to make sure you got in a good position around the mark. As I hadn't sailed a Squib for a while it did take a bit of time to get back into the swing of things, but I got better as the weekend went on, finishing second in the last race!'
For more information on Hyde's range of Squib sails see www.hydeshop.com, or contact Peter White of White Marine Services, Hyde's Squib agents
T: +44 (0) 1394 275557 www.whitemarineservices.co.uk
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