148th Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club Regatta Week

13th-20th August 2005

The event opened on Saturday with the traditional Fleet Review, won by
Premier Cru and the Ladies Race for the House of Fraser Rose Bowl won by
Linda Dyson sailing the Squib Little Demon. Racing proper ran from Sunday
through to Friday in great weather with the breeze ranging from a very
gusty Sunday with only the J24s and IRC class able to race to glorious
conditions for the remainder of the week.

In the J24 class Rumble (R Wharram) took control of the event winning the
first 5 races, however Riot refound their form to take the next 3 races.
Rumble counting all firsts and seconds won the week and the Prince of
Wales Cup for the third year running, with a consistent and improving
Jelignite (P Waine) taking second place overall. Cool Jade (J Copsey) won
the Westerly trophy.

The Squib class had 7 boats with some very close racing all week. Gerard
Dyson continued his good form from the Nationals to take 1st place
overall, a first for Gerard in a number of years. Perkers (N Orum) was
second.

The story of the week came from the rejuvenated Yorkshire One Design
class, with 11 of the 13 existing boats racing. Many have been recently
extensively restored including the Commodore's boat Yilt (D Armstrong) and
Blackie with owners Tim Rix and Mark Eggleston working for a solid two
weeks on the boat to complete the restoration just in time for the regatta
and going on to win the week on their first outing in the boat. Second
was Sinner (H Jones) who showed some exceptional pace on the breezier
days. [See the History of the YOD for more details on these historic craft - ed]

The IRC class was dominated by visiting boats with Bee Sharp (D Turner)
winning and No Nonsense (D Frank) taking second. Top Bridlington boat was
Starchick in third. The dinghy catamaran class was dominated by M Exon
sailing Mat Finish.

The Commodore's Rose Bowl for overall winner of the week was won by the
J24 Rumble counting 7 firsts from their 11 race series.

Report by Ben Williamson