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Hyde Sails FD wins Northern areas
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Challenging conditions saw Hyde's Toby Barsley-Dale take a hard-fought victory in Ullswater.
Conditions were varied for the Flying Dutchman Northern Area Championships held at Ullswater YC. A Force 1-3 greeted competitors on Saturday, followed by a Force 3-5 on Sunday, with significantly bigger gusts, particularly on Sunday. Both days were also very shifty providing plenty of scope for gains and losses!
Overall winners after seven races were Toby Barsley-Dale and Gareth Russell, second was Jon Williams and Ales Rogers, third was Tony Lyall and Colin Burns.
Toby Barsley-Dale describes the win: "The event as a whole was quite challenging for us. The conditions meant that consistency was going to be the vital with all boats potentially having to count bad results. In the end we won the first race and managed to follow this with a second and another first. This left us in a strong position until the majority of the fleet made a navigational error in the last race on Saturday and the results were turned upside down, we were fortunate to be able to fight back to third for that race. Sunday was much breezier and despite much place changing we managed to get another two wins to secure the event before posting a third in the final race after a big capsize!"
Toby explains: "The sails are the 2008 designs we have produced for other boats in the fleet. We have used them in a couple of events now and have always felt that the speed and height offered is great. This was our first opportunity to use the heavy weather genoa and we were particularly pleased with the speed of this sail. We are one of the lighter crews in the class, but feel the sails are very versatile and can be depowered very efficiently to allow us to remain competitive across the wind range."
The next event for the FD class is the Nationals at Royal Torbay YC in June. This is the first sea event for the year and is likely to be very fiercely contested.
Hyde prides itself in its continual sail development, Flying Dutchman Sails and accessories are available direct from Hyde's online shop, www.hydeshop.com
Conditions were varied for the Flying Dutchman Northern Area Championships held at Ullswater YC. A Force 1-3 greeted competitors on Saturday, followed by a Force 3-5 on Sunday, with significantly bigger gusts, particularly on Sunday. Both days were also very shifty providing plenty of scope for gains and losses!
Overall winners after seven races were Toby Barsley-Dale and Gareth Russell, second was Jon Williams and Ales Rogers, third was Tony Lyall and Colin Burns.
Toby Barsley-Dale describes the win: "The event as a whole was quite challenging for us. The conditions meant that consistency was going to be the vital with all boats potentially having to count bad results. In the end we won the first race and managed to follow this with a second and another first. This left us in a strong position until the majority of the fleet made a navigational error in the last race on Saturday and the results were turned upside down, we were fortunate to be able to fight back to third for that race. Sunday was much breezier and despite much place changing we managed to get another two wins to secure the event before posting a third in the final race after a big capsize!"
Toby explains: "The sails are the 2008 designs we have produced for other boats in the fleet. We have used them in a couple of events now and have always felt that the speed and height offered is great. This was our first opportunity to use the heavy weather genoa and we were particularly pleased with the speed of this sail. We are one of the lighter crews in the class, but feel the sails are very versatile and can be depowered very efficiently to allow us to remain competitive across the wind range."
The next event for the FD class is the Nationals at Royal Torbay YC in June. This is the first sea event for the year and is likely to be very fiercely contested.
Hyde prides itself in its continual sail development, Flying Dutchman Sails and accessories are available direct from Hyde's online shop, www.hydeshop.com
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