Burnham week results
Filed Under (Burnham Week) by tony on 25-09-2009
Burnham Week was a great success this year and thanks to the crew who did an outstanding job.
On the first Saturday The Houghton Cup was a 55 mile race round the Barrow Sands which we won in Amazon for the first time, by eight minutes on Oystercatcher XXVI. What a great way to start the week but it just got better and better.
Amazon then won the Bank Holiday weekend in Class 2, the long week in Class 2 and were runners up for the midweek series to Scaramouche III, a First 31.7. Scaramouche was faster than us in over 20 knots and there was plenty of that, with Thursday’s racing cancelled due to over 50 knots, but Amazon was quicker in under 20 knots. In the final Saturday’s race Amazon won the Commodores Cup after a great race with Scaramouche beating them when the wind got lighter and the tide turned foul near the finish. Amazon also won the Premium liferaft bell (and a bottle of whisky) for the best performance in IRC for the week – all classes.
Great Burnham Week, awesome results for us in class 2.
Thanks for a great week!