Sailing Summer Success
Our RHS pupils have had much sailing success over the summer. Please find below some of the fabulous results!
TEAM RESULTS
Itchenor Schools Week
Fevas
Merryn Attridge and Toby Smith- 2nd overall, out of 93 boats!
Ciara Murphy and Devon Lane - 24th
Harry Law and George Allinson - 34th
As well as other pupils - we had 9 boats entered
Fireflies
Sebastian Kempe and Grace Pank - 4th out of 71 boats
James Deaton and Paddy Moriarty - 5th
Nicole Stovell and Millie Lewis - 6th and 1st females
Harriet George and Sam Grout - 37th
Our top three boats combined scores were better than any other school, so we won the team trophy. As far as we can work out, no school has ever won the team trophy in both classes in the same year!
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
RS Feva World Championship
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Thomas Davey - 6th in silver fleet
29er European Championship
Royal Danish Yacht Club
Karrie Clark competed
29er World Championship
Club Nautic El Balis, Barcelona
Karrie Clark and Lia Fletcher competed (separately)
29er National Championship
Royal Torbay Yacht Club
Karrie Clark 12th overall and 2nd female boat
Millie Deacon - 26th
Oscar Oldfield - 37th
Topper National Championship
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
Merryn Attridge - National Champion!
And entered in the Endeavour Trophy - champion of champions event
Topper World Championship
Riva Del Garda, Italy
Merryn Attridge - 14th overall
Waszp National Championship
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
James Deaton 19th
Wilf Taylor 27th
Out of 50!
ILCA National Championships
Hayling Island Sailing Club
ILCA 4
Toby Smith - 14th overall, 6th under 16
Tatiana Hazelwood - 35th overall, 5th female, 2nd female under 16
Imogen Palmer - 4th silver fleet
Harriet George - 33rd silver fleet
Grace Coleman Reaston-Brown - 34th silver fleet
ILCA 6
Grace Pank - 29th silver fleet
Poppy Lowe - 39th silver fleet
ILCA 4 Youth World Championship
Vilamoura, Portugal
Boy's
Boris Hirsch - 14th overall
Toby Smith - 136th
Girl's
Millie Lewis - 56th overall
Ciara Murphy - 65th
Imogen Palmer - 134th
Harriet George 150th
Grace Coleman Reaston-Brown - 153rd
ILCA 4 Youth European Championship
Tatiana Hazelwood - 115th
ILCA 6 Youth World Championship
Houston Yacht Club, USA
Women's
Nicole Stovell - 17th
Men's
Sebastian Kempe - 6th
Matteo Bertacchi - 15th
Thommie Grit - 37th
Boris Hirsch - 2nd silver fleet
ILCA 7 U21 World Championship
Vilamoura, Portugal
Sebastian Kempe - 5th
Optimist World Championship
Bodrum, Turkey
Sarah Davis - 131st
World Sailing Youth Sailing World Championship:
5 (or 6) sailors from the school at this exclusive event for pre-selected athletes - just 1 per country. Surely unprecedented anywhere in the world, ever!
ILCA 6
Men
Sebastian Kempe - 2nd
Thommie Grit - 28th (and GBR representative)
Boris Hirsch - 35th
Plus Christopher Marsh (incoming pupil) - 46th
Out of the 61 top youth sailors in the world.
Women
Nicole Stovell - 23rd
Grace Coleman Reaston-Brown - 54th
In addition to these there were a number of strong performances in local regatta weeks:
Royal Harwich Yacht Club Junior Race Week
Fast Handicap
Thomas Davey - 1st
Millie Deacon - 3rd
ILCA
Charlotte Allen - 13th
West Mersea Yacht Club Mersea Week
Medium handicap
Sam Grout - 2nd
Poppy Lowe - 5th
Fast handicap
Muiris Capon-Telford - 6th
Izzy Bartlett - 9th
West Mersea Yacht Club Cadet Week
Slow handicap
Sonny and Joel Simpson - 1st
Will Grout - 7th
Freddie Lowe - 20th
Fast handicap
Charlotte Allen - 2nd
Sam Grout - 3rd
Muiris Capon-Telford - 6th
Izzy Bartlett - 7th
Poppy Lowe - 8th
James Humphreys - 10th