Seasalter Sailing Club

Affiliated Club

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2000 DART 15 Class Travellers Trophy Event :

DART 15'S AT SEASALTER.

Seasalter SC hosted the Dart 15 Traveller event on June 17th-18th. and all
the sailing elements, winds F3-4, sunny weather, good Frank Avery courses
and excellent food, came together to give all, a great weekends
entertainment. The two races on Saturday were dominated by the Dart 15
ardent traveller Bob Carter, with Gordon Goldstone and Nick Dewhurst sharing
the 2nd and 3 rd places. A report from the back of the fleet, reported
sighting Nick Dewhurst doing a 360, but this was not enough to allow Herne
Bay's, Terry Webster to get third in first race. The second race had the
locally grown talent, challenging behind the travelling hero's, in the
shape of Martin Searle "sprinting" into 4 th place.In the evening the
fabulous weather and that footie match, made the ideal back ground for one
of Seasalter's famous B-B-Q's.

Sunday dawned and true to the forecast the ideal conditions continued. The
fleet increased with Whitstable's sailors, Nick Crook and Paul Dudman
sailing over, but how Nick Crook viewed the sight of his Dart 15 sailing off
across the Thames estuary like the Mary Celeste, thank-fully is unrecorded,
however Nick and Veronica were all sorted out to join the final race.
Seasalter veteran light wind specialist, John Dutch, join the fray and
managed to claim both 3rd places, behind those Dart 15 experts Bob C and
Nick D.

Yet again rumours circulated that Mr Dewhurst was spotted becoming intermate
with a particularly pretty mark and doing another 360.

OVERAL RESULTS:- 1st. Bob Carter, 2nd. Nick Dewhurst, 3rd. Gordon Goldstone,
4th. Martin Searle, 5th. Jeff Kiddle.

(Meeting report also printed in Mid June 2000 edition of Yachts & Yachting (p73))