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May '13
Late April saw the US IOM Nationals
held in San Francisco from the Team Oracle AC base. Sunny skies and good winds
made a pleasant change from the cold of an extended UK winter. With borrowed
BritPOP #1 and a strong start, a lack of racing practice since last years Euros
win proved to be costly with some bad tactical decisions and incidents, along
with a dead receiver in race 8 while leading comfortably, putting an end to any
chance of a win. The racing was dominated by the first 3 boats with Ian Vickers
racing his well prepared V8 cleanly on home waters for a 7 point win. 3rd place
was taken by Eric Arndt sailing his original Lintel to his usual high standards
that regularly holds him as the top US IOM skipper to beat. Back in the UK Graham Elliott and a strong group of BritPOPs continued in great style at Coal House Fort in the second UK ranking weekend of the year. Saturday saw 7 BPs in the top 10 with Graham Elliott winning from Darin Ballington and Graham Bantock. Sunday saw 5 BP's in the top 10 with Graham Elliott taking 2nd place behind Martin Roberts and just ahead of Peter Stollery in his Isotonic in 3rd. The Italian BP domination continues with Pierluigi Puthod and Gianluigi Rudoni having another 1-2 finish in the recent round of their National Ranking since our last update. Looking forward we have new 10 rater and RG65 design lines well underway for long time BG supporters in AUS, BRA & GBR, along with new IOM & RM lines plans for home build scheduled for the second half of 2013. Finally Victoria and I were married on May 1st in Las Vegas, the 20 year old solo has had its first win at West Kirby and the UK RM Nationals are coming up with a world class field in a couple of weeks, summer's finally here. Life's good!
Update May 13
Some recent
2013 results of skippers
using BG Sails If we have missed you, let us know!
March '13 With winter now officially coming to an end here in the UK (well hopefully), we look forward to the coming season of racing both at home and abroad. Coming up this year is the USA IOM Nationals at the Team ORACLE base in San Francisco in April and a full season of IOM & RM club, ranking and national events here in the UK with other events on the cards. The past winter months have been busy with a record number of sails being dispatched, a new BritPOP hitting the water and winning its first outing both days at the Woodspring ranking race and the purchase of an old Jack Holt designed Solo class dinghy for some summer evening racing at West Kirby on the site of the 2011 IOM Worlds.
Worldwide our sails and designs
continue to enjoy success for their owners at all levels of competition. A
fantastic story recently was in the Australian IOM nationals in January, every
BritPOP skipper present sailed to personal best ever results, with Scott Condie
finishing in 4th place behind the experience of multiple past winners Grieve,
Jones & Smith. Scott coupled this result with a solid win in the Australian 10
Rater class with a BG rig and weight optimised Aero2 design built locally. Well
done Scott! In Italy the BritPOPs of Pierluigi Puthod and Gialuigi Rudoni have
dominated all regional IOM races this year with 1-2 finishes. Gian is racing the
red '42' that won last years Euros and has quickly taken to the red rocket and
shown that Pier will not have things all his own way in 2013. See you all on the water soon!
Some recent
2013 results of skippers
using BG Sails If we have missed you, let us know!
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