J/111s Prevail @ Warsash Spring Championship

ByStuart Johnstone
A bicycle parked in front of a bookshelf filled with books and decor.

Dent’s JELVIS Crushes J/70 Spring Champs
(Warsash. England)- The Warsash Sailing Club concluded the Warsash Spring Championship for IRC Divisions and the J/70 Class last weekend. A total of nine races were sailed for the tenacious sailors taking on the always capricious, ever-changing Solent.

IRC 1 Division
Nearly sweeping the top five were five J/teams. The J/111s prevailed again, with Chris Jones & Louise Makin’s JOURNEYMAKER II taking class honors, followed by Paul Griffiths’s JAGERBOMB. Fourth was Jim Chalmers’s J/112E HAPPY DIAZE, fifth was Derek Shakespeare’s J/122 BULLDOG, and sixth was Ellie Wollmann’s J/111 FREQUENT FLYER.

IRC 2 Division
In a near repeat of their colleagues in IRC 1, five J/crews took five of the top seven places! Taking the silver medal was Kevin Taylor’s J/99 JUMP 2 IT, with Rob Cotterill’s J/109 MOJO RISIN garnering the bronze medal. Then, fourth went to Peter McConnell’s J/109 KARABOUDJAN. Sixth was David Richard’s J/109 JUMPING JELLYFISH and seventh went to Louise Davis’s J/109 JEROBOAM.

J/70 Class
Winning this twenty-two-boat fleet was Martin Dent’s JELVIS with 19 pts net. Then, rounding out the podium was Arthur Farley’s GENIUS winning the tiebreaker at 25 pts each over Henry Edwards’s JOSKIN.

For more Warsash Spring Series sailing information
https://warsashsc.org.uk/