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Dragon Easter Bank Holiday Weekend

Dragon Easter Bank Holiday Weekend 18 Apr 2003

Although the Dragon Fleet has been slowly building its strength with various practice races, the aim is to be ready for the first major race event of the season, the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend. This year’s event attracted a record entry of thirty-three boats…

Thirty-three Dragons, including three overseas crews, assembled at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club on Good Friday to take part in the Burnham Dragon Fleet’s Easter Regatta. The weather, which the previous week had been forecast to be light and sunny, had blown up, ensuring that the closed season’s cobwebs were very firmly blown away
in the morning’s Practice Race.

Race One was an entertaining affair with the fleet enjoying
round-the-cans racing in the strong east-north-easterly at the mouth of the Roach.
Richard Jordan’s Chaotic made the best of the breezy conditions to open his account with a win,
trailed by Rob Campbell’s Quicksilver II and Mike Holmes in Hand of Fortune.

Saturday dawned to much stronger winds and with the breeze averaging over thirty knots, and gusting to forty,
Principal Race Officer and RCYC Commodore Edwin Buckley, mindful of the retirements and breakages
from the previous day’s racing, abandoned the racing for the day. Perhaps inevitably this caused a few casualties
at the bar, but helped trade at local chandleries.

The wind had eased sufficiently on Easter Sunday to allow
Edwin to set three windward-leeward courses, again near the mouth of the Roach.
However, the breeze was still sufficiently strong to make the racing both exciting and challenging enough
for both ends of the fleet’s ability spectrum. Despite several crew testing their life jackets,
only their pride was hurt. Overseas visitor Frank Van Beuningen in Hestia, having retired from the first race
with a broken mast, proved that his new Petticrows mast was indeed quick, with a win in Race Two,
whilst the Burnham Dragon Fleet’s latest member, Mark Wade’s Avalanche, had the edge over the ‘old guard’ in Race Three.

Race Four was won by Ian Ratnage’s scrapping for a place on Water Rat, followed by Len Jones’s Rumours,
and Richard Jordan’s Chaotic, who had been consistently third for all of the day’s racing,
and had thus wrapped up the series before the last day.

The Bank Holiday Monday morning dawned
to a much less demanding forecast, with sunshine and a predicted east-south-easterly leading the committee boat
to shepherd the fleet upriver in search of a true beat for the first leg of the course.
However, with the wind settling more southerly than was predicted, the fleet was forced to sail back downriver
to the now familiar area at the mouth of the Roach. The short line and tide sweeping the fleet towards
the committee boat inevitably caused a small raft-up at the starboard end of the line.

However, Owen Pay’s Njord, Nigel Cole’s Tsunami, Mark Wade in Avalanche, and Rob Campbell in Quicksilver II,
all podium, were able to keep clear of the trouble to lead the fleet up the first beat.
After a controversial windward mark rounding, and a closely fought run to the leeward gate
of the windward-leeward course, Tsunami managed to take control up the second beat to take eventual line honours.

Many thanks must go to the Easter Regatta’s main sponsors: Bolle, Petticrows, Musto, Casio,
Rice & Coles, Mailspeed, Cadburys and Suzuki.

1 602 Chaotic
G R Jordan
1 3 3 3 11 – 10
2 644 Tsunami
Nigel Cole
13 4 5 4 1 – 14
3 679 Avalanche
Mark Wade
5 7 1 11 2 – 15
4 677 Rumors
Len Jones
7 8 2 2 6 – 17
5 675 Water Rat
Ian Ratnage
6 9 33 1 4 – 20
6 623 Pongo
M.Hayles P.Gifford
8 2 33 5 8 – 23
7 684 Hand of Fortune
Tony Allen & Mike Holmes
3 11 4 7 9 – 23
8 54 Roodt
Gerome Van Collie
9 6 6 10 7 – 28
9 653 Njord
Owen Pay
17 10 10 12 3 – 35
10 611 Mustang
Eiki Keert
4 13 11 8 17 – 36
11 572 Quicksilver II
Robert Campbell
2 5 33 6 33 – 46
12 507 Wisp
Hilary Gallo
12 15 8 16 18 – 51
13 300 Hestia
Frank van Beuningen
33 1 33 9 10 – 53
14 580 Esoteric Eric
R Sheppard
11 14 13 18 16 – 54
15 363 Mistress
Bill Daniels
19 33 12 13 12 – 56
16 617 Flame Again
David Hall
14 16 33 15 13 – 58
17 632 Rapid Transit
Colin Woodcock
33 12 7 14 33 – 66
18 618 Caramba
Chris Britain & Gillian Hamilton
10 21 33 33 5 – 69
19 443 Mustang IV
Michael Johnson
33 33 9 17 15 – 74
20 600 Tarakona
Hugh Howard & Sue Shapiro
21 17 14 23 33 – 75
21 64 Mamselle
Jan Vandamme
25 18 15 20 22 – 75
22 636 Seafire
David Crabb
23 20 17 22 19 – 78
23 663 Amok
Clive Morgan & John Holt
20 33 19 21 21 – 81
24 639 Vol de Nuit
John Field
15 33 33 19 20 – 87
25 631 Magic
Nick Hyde & David Andrassy
22 33 18 33 24 – 97
26 606 Sagitta
Richard Green
33 33 16 33 23 – 105
27 575 Flotation
Richard Davies
24 19 33 33 33 – 109
28 667 Ganador
Martin Makey
33 33 33 33 14 – 113
29 683 BBC
P Clarabut
16 33 33 33 33 – 115
30 641 Delilah
Mottram Rankin & Ted Watson
18 33 33 33 33 – 117
31 339 Logie
Richard Rycroft
33 33 33 33 25 – 124
32 526 Mithrandir
Roger Clarke
33 33 33 33 33 – 132

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