Micro World Championships 2021

Micro ‘World’ Championships 2021

There was a very good turnout of 8 boats on the first day of this year’s Micro Championships held on 18/19 September with an even better 9 boats on the second day, following a much-reduced Covid-affected event in 2020. Only one was a Micro 18 with the rest being Gems.

A morning tide made for an early start, the wind was slow to materialize, as was the tide, so a decision was made to forego the passage race out from the club and to use the Committee and Safety RIBs to tow the Micros out to the windward/leeward race area to be ready to maximise racing time when the wind did appear. After a short delay, enough wind filled in from the south-east to make racing possible and two windward-leeward races of two laps each were held. Ian and Stef in Well Done won the first race with Will and Edd Harvey second and Rheanna and David won the second race with Ian and Stef coming second. A passage race back to the club, with the windward leg first followed by the usual route back round the Hooks and Royalty, was won by Ed Roberts and crew.

Sunday’s start was a little later and there was enough wind and water for the passage race out, which was won by Rheanna and David. With the wind more east south-east than on Saturday, there was plenty of room for two good-length windward-leeward races, with a beat down river. Racing was close but both were won by Ian and Stef with Ed Roberts second in the first race and Andrew Thorp crewing for his young helm second in the second race. The final passage of the weekend was won by Ed Roberts and crew.

The event is split into various categories and the prizes are distributed in such a way that no boat can win all of them, so the results were;

Micro ‘World’ Championships overall (one discard)

1st – Ian and Stef in Well Done

2nd – Rheanna and David in Virus

3rd – Edd and Will Harvey in Takita (kindly lent out by Tony Power)

Passage Series (excludes the ‘Worlds’ winner and one discard)

1st – Ed Roberts and crew in Pathogen

2nd – Rheanna and David

3rd – Ian and Stef

Gem ‘Nationals’ (Micro 18s excluded and all races to count)

1st – Ian and Stef

2nd – Rheanna and David