Mirror Class Eastern Area Travellers Trophy 2004

Final results after seven events with three to count

Final event was at Hunts Sailing Club on 19th September.


Youth Winners

Lucia Lachlan-Cope with Emma Houlder and Lewis Steckelmacher (Cam S.C.)

Overall winners

Ray Smith with Sarah Glanvill, Phoebe Lambert and Hetty Baalham (Dabchicks S.C.)


Report

The Travellers' Series provides a step between beginning sailing at a single club and the national and international circuit.
Thirty nine boats, and perhaps seventy sailors took part this year.

The Class Association offered excellent training events associated with the Travellers' Series.
Please see the programme on this web site or UKMirrorsailing.com.

Visit the Yachts and Yachting (c) Mirror Page for meeting reports.
Helm Crew Boat Club Upriver Y.C. Cam S.C Deben Y.C. NHEB S.C. Ely S.C B'sea S.C. Hunts S.C. Number Done Points
Ray Smith *Sarah Glanvill *Phoebe Lambert *Hetty Baalham 69020 Dabchicks S.C. 1 1 1 3 2 - 1 6 3
Alan Winter *Richard Jeffries Peter Houlder *Theo Clarke *Tim Lachlan-Cope *John d'Ely 69922 68986 Cam S.C. - 4 11 4 4 - 3 5 11
John Clarke Lucy Raymond 67046 Cam S.C. - - 12 - 6 - 4 3 22
*Lucia Lachlan-Cope *Emma Houlder *Lewis Steckelmacher 68162 70033 Cam S.C. - 7 14 - 7 - - 3 28
Ed Lachlan-Cope *Tim Lachlan-Cope 70033 Cam S.C. - 2 - - - - 2 2 4
Andy Alcock *Alex Alcock 52336 Hunts S.C. - - - - - - 5 1 5
*John Houlder *Gabriel Clarke 69922 Cam S.C. - - 10 - 1 - - 2 11
John Stewart *Nicolas Copsey 70041 Ely S.C. - - - - 3 - - 1 3
James Gallagher S/H 7647 Ely S.C. - - - - 5 - - 1 5
Tom Lachlan-Cope *Tim Lachlan-Cope S/H 70033 Cam S.C. - - 16 - 8 - - 2 24
*James Steckelmacher *Tim Lachlan-Cope 20215 Cam S.C. - - - - 9 - - 1 9
Mike Dixon S/H 46790 Ely S.C. - - - - 10 - - 1 10
Dale Winter *Josh Easy *Lucia L-C *Ben Nicholson *Richard Jeffries 68986 Cam S.C. 6 3 - - - - - 2 9
Hector Cisneros *Ben Cisneros 69912 Reading S.C. - - - 1 - - - 1 1
Ray Skinner *Luke Gearing 69187 N.H.E.B.S.C. - - - 2 - - - 1 2
Robin Parsons *Felicity Parsons 67964 Deben Y.C. - - 2 - - - - 1 2
Gerry Leuty S/H 39346 N.H.E.B.S.C. - - - 5 - - - 1 5
Marj Winter *Adam Nicholson 69922 Cam S.C. - - - 6 - - - 1 6
Paul Smith S/H 55884 N.H.E.B.S.C. - - - 7 - - - 1 7
Mike Gearing *Tanishia Gearing 10991 N.H.E.B.S.C. - - - 8 - - - 1 8
*James Griffith George Miller 68951 Deben Y.C. - - 3 - - - - 1 3
*James Thomas *Evan Goodman 12890 Tankerton Bay S.C. - - 4 - - - - 1 4
*Rosie Shuster *Liam Grant 46740 Deben Y.C. - - 5 - - - - 1 5
David O'Riordan *Harry O'Riordan 68295 Deben Y.C. - - 6 - - - - 1 6
Sam Doman Oscar Ford 62258 Deben Y.C. - - 7 - - - - 1 7
*Jonathan Hall *Arran Constantine 19123 Deben Y.C. - - 8 - - - - 1 8
*Jenny Shuster *Michael Carr 70154 Deben Y.C. - - 9 - - - - 1 9
*Sam Davies *Tim Davies 63934 Deben Y.C. - - 13 - - - - 1 13
Frances Ringer Emma Smith 9522 Deben Y.C. - - 15 - - - - 1 15
Penny Yarwood Pat Harris 48944 Upriver Y.C. 2 - - - - - - 1 2
Colyn Payne, Matt Pickett Thomas Payne, Colyn Payne 51363 Upriver Y.C. 3 - - - - - - 1 3
Chris Swinchatt *Christopher Swinchatt 70166 Chipstead S.C. 4 - - - - - - 1 4
Steve Osborne *John Houlder 17185 Cam S.C. - 5 - - - - - 1 5
Lloyd Coe Luke Bullock 19839 Upriver Y.C. 5 - - - - - - 1 5
*Hannah Warren *Sophie Diets 1933 Cam S.C. - 6 - - - - - 1 6
J Clementson Mr Clementson 69164 Chipstead S.C. 7 - - - - - - 1 7
Jo Osborne *Ben Nicholson 20215 Cam S.C. - 8 - - - - - 1 8
Peter Houlder Melanie Houlder 15566 Cam S.C. - 9 - - - - - 1 9
- : did not compete in this event. * : Youth (Under 15 on 1/1/04)
19/9/04 Full Force Five at Hunts Sailing Club
The final meeting of the series was held on a perfect, bright day with wind gusting up to Force Five.
It was a little disappointing to have only five boats on this excellent water, but congratulations to Ray Smith on winning the event to round off a memorable season.

Open Training was organised on the Saturday by Cam S.C. on their own water, with seven boats including eight young sailors.
William Winter spent the morning showing how to set the sails and then several of us were able to go out in stronger winds (Force Five and upwards) than we might have attempted without the training support.
The training sessions have added great value to the series and have been very much appreciated by all. Thanks to the coaches, clubs and the MCA!
12/9/04 Brightlingsea Blown Off
Sunday was advertised as part of the EATT but the wind was too strong to allow sailing.
18/7/04 Ely Sailing Club
Saturday Open Coaching, arranged by the Mirror Class Association and presented by Sakia Clark, was a tremendous benefit. Several young sailors were introduced to racing in Mirrors and the Class Association has several new members as a result. Without this training session the Open Meeting on the following day would not have been nearly as successful.
Steady rain fell on Sunday until just before the start of the first race, and from just after the finish of the last. But in the meantime the race officers set sailable courses despite very light winds.
John Houlder and Gabriel Clark won the first race by a considerable margin, but had to work much harder for the rest of the day. Ray Smith and Hetty Baalham won the second race and made sure of the EATT Trophy by coming second on the day.
Congratulations to John and Gabriel on winning their first open meeting!
11/7/04 North Herts and East Beds Sailing Club
A perfect day and the friendliest welcome along the gravel track at North Herts and East Beds Sailing Club.
We soon achieved a routine finishing order which held for all three races, but it required a very close call and local knowledge of a peculiar finish line in the second race!
Congratulations to Hector and Ben Cisneros from Reading, clear winners of all three races on their first visit to the EATT.
20/6/04 Deben
An impressive fleet of young sailors from Deben with visitors from Cam and Tankerton Bay made good use of the Eastern Region's first full weekend of the summer.
Saturday training saw repeated quick starts and short races, in a variable wind ending with a solid squall and a hard tack home against the falling tide.
Sixteen boats contested the Open Meeting on Sunday with close finishes and the results in doubt until the very end.
Congratulations to Ray Smith and Phoebe Lambert who made it three wins out of three in the Travellers' Series.
Thanks to all at Deben YC for your hospitality and for excellent racing. And congratulations on your youth fleet who have improved as their numbers have increased.
12/6/04 Cam
A very bright morning gave way to showers by mid day with the wind changing in strength and direction every minute.
Nine boats competed including eight young sailors, alongside the British Moths Open meeting.
Close finishes in all three races saw the visitors, Ray Smith and Phoebe Lambert win the American Cup.
Thanks to the members of Cam SC for your hospitality and for excellent racing.
4/4/04 Upriver
Happy memories of past Mirror Opens at Upriver Yacht Club are of long, mid-summer days with fifteen or twenty boats and the most friendly of atmospheres. Also, though it is not always thus, of a big ebb tide and a small wind blowing with it, for example a line of six boats drifting slowly backwards from Horse Buoy until the lightest of breezes filled in and we set off back upstream in exactly reversed order.
Responding this year to a clash of dates, and to the request of the Class Association to have meetings arranged from April through to October, the event was fixed for April 4th, Palm Sunday. With hindsight, perhaps, later in April might have been better. Still seven boats came together in a strong, cold breeze and some excellent close racing at a high standard was the result. On the Saturday Matt and Michael Pickett arranged a useful coaching session for eight beginners from the Home Club, a foretaste of the Open Coaching at Deben and Ely later in the summer.
The first race on Sunday morning saw Ray Smith and Sarah Glanville (Dabchicks) winning by a second or so from Penny Yarwood and Pat Harris (Upriver) after an eighty minute battle in a gusty force five/six. The Black Pearl (Chris and Christopher Swinchatt from Chipstead) not far behind in third place. Ray won the second race also, in a little less wind from Matt Pickett and Colyn Payne (Upriver).
So we had a small fleet, but of very high quality and gathered from great distances. As Recorder of the Eatern Travellers I hope to see the same boats and the same friends throught the summer at the six remaining opens and at the excellent coaching to be organised by the MCA (see the Association Web Site for booking details and do book ahead since otherwise the coaches have to be cancelled).
Thanks to the members of Upriver YC for your hospitality and for excellent racing.
This page was last updated on 19th September 2004 by Alan Winter. For more information see the page about this site. The Eastern Area Travellers Trophy home page : http://www.violaboats.fsnet.co.uk/