The first Trent Tripartite was held at Attenborough on Sunday the 19th of April. Initiated by the club it is intended to be an annual inter-club event involving Attenborough, Nottingham and Trent Valley Sailing Clubs with the intention it will rotate around the clubs each year. This year we couldn’t have asked for better weather, light winds with sunny skies resulted in 32 boats being involved in the three race series. Good weather always helps but the club did look impressive and we have had excellent feedback from the visiting clubs. The racing was well organised by the ODDs Steve Coupe and Jeremy Straw with Dennis and Mark Bell on rescue with our Social Secretary, Julie Rust, producing an excellent buffet for half-time.
On the water Attenborough did very well demonstrating that for a club of our size we do have a good depth for club racing. The three races were won by different sailors, Mike Pritchard and Roger Day of Attenborough won the first two with Ben Richardson of Trent Valley easily winning the final race. For the individual race series there was a three way tie between Roger Day, Kevin Milton and Mike Pritchard of Attenborough with each winning a tankard. There were also individual prizes for race winners and first two from each club. These prizes were the exclusive Attenborough Sailing Club 50th Anniversary mugs. These limited edition collector’s items (see photo) will soon be on sale to members.
1st equal Roger Day, Kevin Milton, Mike Pritchard
The club prize, a silver salver donate by Attenborough for the 50th anniversary was won by the home club, quite easily in the end. The scores for the first four from each club in each race counted to the overall score and for Attenborough in addition to the individual winners, Brian Dennis and Robyn Pritchard were the other Attenborough scorers. The overall result is below:
1st Attenborough 50pts
2nd Nottingham 101pts
3rd Trent Valley 130pts