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Congratulations to Chris Pickles and Matt Sharman (Bassenthwaite SC), winners of the 2024 RS400 TridentUK Northern Tour
For the second year running congratulations go to Chris Pickles and Matt Sharman (Bassenthwaite SC) for winning the 2024 RS400 Trident UK Northern Tour, though it was a close-run thing, and all top 6 positions were settled at the final event of the season.
Chris and Matt finished the season tied on 5 points with Ollie Groves and Ester Parkhurst (Beaver SC). Both teams had three first places and a second, so we had to dig deep into Appendix A of the racing rules of sailing to settle the series on the last event. It may have been a different story, but Ollie and Esther jumped into an RS200 for the last weekend of the series practising for the Endeavour Trophy. It was clearly worthwhile as they went on to win the Endeavour Trophy. Whilst they were representing the 2000 class, we all really know they’re northern RS400 sailors. Huge congratulations guys!
Hamish Gledhill and Ross Southwell (West Riding SC) finished third, squeaking ahead of Dave Exley and Nigel Hall (Leigh and Lowton SC) in fourth. Louise McKeand and Sean Ratcliffe (Leigh and Lowton SC) climbed the leader board to finish 5th with Carl and son Ben Whitehead (Filey SC) finishing 6th overall.
Full report and results thanks to Hamish Geldhill here
Huge thanks to Hamish for a superb job running this tour, his efforts are very much apppreciated
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