Grafham GP - 2 Jan 2005

Five Musto Skiffs made the journey to Grafham Water for the 2005 Grafham Grand Prix on a very cold and windy January day.

The first race saw Ian Turnbull hit the front in spectacular style to lead from start to finish with Kev Anderson hot on his heals. Unfortunately for Ian the race was shortened before Kev started his last lap. This meant that Ian did a lap more and a capsize meant that on average lap times he lost the race even though Kev followed him around the last lap and was never in front. Now how lucky is that !!!!!!! The big Jessy (a.k.a. Graeme Oliver) bailed out because of some left over flu, Tim Chapman managed a credible 13th and the new bloke on the block Will Crocker was 10th and showed some great potential.

The second race saw Kev dominate from start and almost to the finish but he managed to pull the head off his main sail 100m from the finish line and had to be towed in. (A trifle unlucky as he had survived a collision with a 49er coming down wind at 20 knots) This left it open for Bov but yet again he was piped at the post by a Dart 16. The Big Jessie had not gone out for the second race, Tim managed to finish in 7th place and Will retired due to the gale force wind and extreme cold.

Final positions were.

Bov- 2rd

Tim- 7th

Kev- 8th

Will- 13th

A fantastic sail was had by all but it was a bit cold, like.

Kev Anderson. Musto 166 Trident