Dabchicks Sailing Club was the focus for the OK class over the weekend when 25 travelled to the club for the second qualifier for next years World Championships in Sweden. Alex Scoles was the winner with two first places, ahead of Mike Edwards second, Anthony Rich third.

We were greeted by very light winds and so the racing was postponed for one hour which gave the fleet the opportunity for a first look at the new book, hot off the press, from Robert Deaves celebrating and documenting the history of the International OK dinghy.

Racing eventually got underway in 5 knots of breeze. After rounding the windward mark, much of the fleet overstated the effect of the tide to the wing mark leaving Alex Scoles to take a more direct approach and he pulled ahead. Nick Craig was second with Anthony Rich in third. Mike Edwards managed to steel four places along the final reach to finish fourth.

The second race saw even less wind. Scoles opened up another convincing lead from Robert Deaves while Terry Curtis found some pressure out to the left of the course but misjudged the tide and ended up reaching into the windward mark. The race finished Scoles first followed by Deaves, Edwards, with Curtis getting ahead of Rich along the final run as the wind died completely.

Day 2 saw the fleet head out to the race course early, more in hope than expectation, but the wind failed to materialize and after bobbing around for a few hours racing was abandoned and the fleet got a tow back home.

Final results then saw Alex Scoles take first place ahead of Mike Edwards second, Anthony Rich third and Nick Craig being shown he cannot have things all his own way in a lowly fourth.

Thanks as always to Dabchicks SC for their superb hospitality over the weekend.

OK - Final overall positions

1 2117 Alex Scoles 1 1 2 pts
2 2126 Mike Edwards 4 3 7 pts
3 2121 Tony Rich 3 5 8 pts
4 2116 Nick Craig 2 7 9 pts
5 2105 Ian Harris 6 6 12 pts
6 2118 Terry Curtis 10 4 14 pts
7 1968 John Ball 7 8 15 pts
8 2120 Dan Ager 5 11 16 pts
9 1944 Julian Burnham 8 14 22 pts
10 2122 John Fish 14 9 23 pts
11 2058 Mary Reddyhoff 9 15 24 pts
12 2119 Robert Deaves ocs 2 2 pts
13 2012 Jake Cracknell 16 12 28 pts
14 2130 Derek Lovegrove 15 13 28 pts
15 218 Ed Dutton 22 10 32 pts
16 2104 Paul Pike 11 22 33 pts
17 2084 Keith Byers 13 20 33 pts
18 1586 Lewis Fairthbrother 17 18 35 pts
19 2053 Richard Ham 21 16 37 pts
20 217 Keith Dutton 18 19 37 pts
21 1917 Ben Woodcraft 12 dnf 12 pts
22 2085 Gavin Waldron 24 17 41 pts
23 2083 Chris Biscomb 23 21 44 pts
24 2124 David Rose 19 dnc 19 pts
25 2123 Andy Turner 20 dnc 20 pts

by Anthony Rich

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