Cambridge Sailing and Board Sports of All Kinds
The Cambridge University Cruising Club (CUCrC) is the home of every sort of small craft sailing at the University – dinghies, boards, foils, and small keel boats.
A mixed Cambridge team (Beige & Purple) sailed steadily to finish 10th out of 20 entrants in the Exeter Excalibur 2019 held at Roadford Lake, Launceston on 9/10th March 2019. It was a wild and windy weekend, with gales preventing any sailing on the Sunday. Cardiff Black were the overall winners – with Beige winning 5 of the 8 races they sailed.
Team:
Callum Farnden and Hugh Tomkins
Derek Pickerell and Tom Kosteletos
Sam Martin and Ed Keen
Cambridge Blue were victorious in the Cam Cup 2019 team racing held at Grafham on 23/24 February 2019. Teams and people who appear in photographs are listed below.
Cambridge Blue, Robbie King, Alex Smallwood, Jules Welham, Bethan Matthew, Jamie Webb, Ollie Jagger, Michael Smith, Royal Thames White, Bronze Exeter Blue, Bartley Babes, Birmingham White, Cambridge Purple, Edinburgh Blue, Oxford Team Racing Academy, Oxford Blue, Scottish Students, Swansea Alumni, West Kirby, Paris Thomas
Cambridge Blue were victorious in the Cam Cup 2019 team racing held at Grafham on 23/24 February 2019. So a Cambridge student team appears again on the winners list after an interval of 20 years. A Cambridge student team won the first event in 1999.
Saturday provided perfect conditions for team racing, and the organisers worked the 4 flights of Fireflies hard. As a result, most of the 21 teams competing sailed 10 races. Suitably exercised, sailors headed off to the excellent dinner in the Royal Cambridge Hotel. After that they whopped it up at the Cindies night club into the early hours.
Sunday dawned windless and stayed that way for most of the day. No racing was possible so overall placings were decided on the results of Saturday’s round robin. With team changeovers not happening on Sunday, some team photographs are missing. Full results of the event will be available on the kSail website for a time.
A big thank you to the Race Committee and Umpires who ran the event so efficiently, to Grafham Water SC for their continuing support, and to the army of Cambridge students who kept things going behind the scenes.
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Cambridge Beige gathered experience at the Imperial Icicle 2019 held at the Welsh Harp 16/17 February 2019. Excellent team racing conditions and slick Imperial organisation provided great racing for the 15 teams competing. Beige finished 4th in the Bronze league.
Cambridge Beige:
Bella Biddle, Neils van Fraasen, Ed Keen, Tom Kosteletos, Sam Martin, Derek Pickell, Francis Treherne Pollock
Cambridge Blue retained their title for the 4th successive year at the Top Gun 2019 event held at Farmoor 9/10 February 2019, defeating Exeter 2-1 in the final. Teams and people who appear in photographs are listed below.
Bethan Matthew, Michael Smith, Robbie King, Jules Welham, Alex Smallwood, Jamie Webb, Inés Pont Sanchis, Bristol Blue, Cambridge Blue, Cambridge Black, Exeter Blue, Manchester Purple, Oxford Blue, Southampton Red, Southampton Green
Cambridge Blue retained their title for the 4th successive year at the Top Gun 2019 event held at Farmoor 9/10 February 2019, defeating Exeter 2-1 in the final. Strong winds prevented sailing on the Saturday, but tight and effective Oxford organisation enabled every one of the eight teams entered to sail 14 races in the often very brisk conditions on Sunday.
Cambridge Blue and Exeter were clearly the teams to watch, losing just one race each in the round robin (Exeter to Cambridge and Cambridge to Exeter!). Exeter stormed away to 1, 2, 3 on the first beat of the 3-race final, to win comfortably. Cambridge responded strongly in the second race to also win convincingly.
The last race of the final was possibly the best team race of this season’s circuit, with Exeter holding the advantage at the start of the final beat. But Cambridge refused to give up, sailed fast, and pounced on any Exeter slip-ups – to move into a winning combination and so retain their title.
A big thank you to the Umpires for their good work, to Oxford SC for their continuing support, and to Oxford (organiser Inés Pont Sanchis) for arranging such an excellent event. The OUYC annual dinner on the Saturday night was as enjoyable as ever.
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Cambridge Blue and Black were successful at the BUSA Qualifiers 2019, held at Grafham Water 2/3 February 2019. Teams and people who appear in photographs are listed below.
Cambridge Blue, Birmingham White, Cambridge Black, Warwick Black, Loughborough Purple, Cambridge Purple, Nottingham Green, Birmingham Black, Birmingham Purple, Kent Black, Kent White, Loughborough Pink, Nottingham White, Nottingham Yellow, Sussex Blue, Sussex White, University of East Anglia, Warwick Red, Karen Thomas, Tim Palmer, Chris Atkins
Cambridge Blue and Black were successful at the BUSA Qualifiers 2019, held at Grafham Water 2/3 February 2019. They go through to the BUSA Finals 2019, to be held on 9-11 April at Spinnaker SC. Cambridge Purple get a second chance to qualify in the Playoffs at Derwent Reservoir on 2-3 March.
The BUSA Qualifiers 2019, organised by Warwick University at Grafham Water, were a complete success. Windy and cold conditions on the Saturday resulted in some breakages and quite a few spills. Conditions were ideal on the Sunday with sunshine and a gentle breeze. With three flights in use, each of the 18 teams completed at least 14 races over the weekend.
1. Cambridge Blue
2. Cambridge Black
3. Birmingham White
4. Warwick Black
5. Loughborough Purple
6. Nottingham Green
7. Cambridge Purple
Cambridge were well represented in the BUSA Qualifiers 2019 event management: Event Director was Karen Thomas (Lucy Cavendish 2017); Principal Race Officer Tim Palmer (St Catharines 2011); and Chief Umpire Chris Atkins (Pembroke 1974). In addition, a good many current Cambridge students assisted the organisers.
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Cambridge was represented by a team of four at the recent SWA event Up The Brum organised by Birmingham at Chasewater 26/27 January 2019. No medals were run, but the team had a great weekend.
Team:
Matty Peacey
Minghang Qu
Esme Southern
Nikki Sridhar
Four Cambridge teams were in action at events during 26/27 January 2019, Blue and Black teams at the 2019 Wessex Warmer (Spinnaker SC, Ringwood) and Purple and Beige teams at the 2019 Warwick Turtle (Draycote Water).
At the Turtle, six round were completed on Saturday, but there was no further racing on the Sunday, leaving Cambridge Purple winners on points, ahead of two teams from rivals Imperial College. Congratulations to Purple!
Francis from Cambridge Beige comments on the 2019 Warwick Turtle:
Overall the day went as well as I could have hoped (aside from some embarrassing capsizes!). As you would expect, given we are a new team, half of our races were lost 4,5,6 to better teams (mostly at the start). But the other half of our races were competitive, and we did a fair amount of Team Racing! In our most exiting race (thanks to some incredible 2 boat mark traps by Niels) we managed to slow the race down down to almost rescue a very large 5,6 gap. By the final beat we were in a close 2,3,6 but unfortunately could not make the final conversion happen. We are looking forward to watching some more experienced teams as we help out at Qualifiers and the Cam Cup before our next event – the Imperial Icicle.
At the Warmer, plenty of races were sailed, in a two-stage format. Cambridge Blue made the Gold Fleet, but lost two nail-biting races on the Sunday. They finished 6th overall, winning 8/14 races, just behind arch-rivals Exeter on a tie-break. Cambridge Black made the Silver Fleet after 6 wins on Saturday, going on to win both their races on Sunday.
Cambridge Captain Paris Thomas comments on the 2019 Wessex Warmer:
It was a pretty windy event with very very gusty, shifty conditions. We got in 12 races per team on the Saturday, which was very impressive race organisation. Unfortunately Sunday was a bit too windy and so the group stages were abandoned early on and the event went straight to semi finals. Black won 8 of their 14 races and learned a lot about team racing in gusty, shifty conditions – good preparation for Qualifiers next weekend!
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It was a pretty windy event with very very gusty, shifty conditions. We got in 12 races per team on the Saturday, which was very impressive race organisation. Unfortunately Sunday was a bit too windy and so the group stages were abandoned early on and the event went straight to semi finals. Black won 8 of their 14 races and learned a lot about team racing in gusty, shifty conditions – good preparation for Qualifiers next weekend!
It was a pretty windy event with very very gusty, shifty conditions. We got in 12 races per team on the Saturday, which was very impressive race organisation. Unfortunately Sunday was a bit too windy and so the group stages were abandoned early on and the event went straight to semi finals. Black won 8 of their 14 races and learned a lot about team racing in gusty, shifty conditions – good preparation for Qualifiers next weekend!
