Saturday belonged to the double of Steve Slade and Lewin Hynes, who won both the IM3 and Novice categories totally convincingly, and retired gracefully from Sunday's racing.
The girls Junior 15 double of Lauren Gilchrist and Lucy Maunsell also won their hard fought competition. The remaining juniors: Ross Porter, Jack Grace, Andrew Collins at J15 and Anneka Terry at J13, all put up very strong performances. Pictures of the Juniors will be put up as soon as Will send them to me.
The Veterans had a tough day of it, with the Fours and Eights managing to beat most of their opposition except when finally facing a totally dominant Peterborough squad. We got sick of the sight of blue and yellow by the end of the weekend.
Sunday was the turn of the Veteran small boats. Ollie and Gerraint finally popped their novice sculling cherries, and washed away the humiliation they suffered at the hands of Huggins and Abraham last year ;)
Our old stalwarts of Tony Marshall and Robin Chapman won the F2x Sprints for the second year running.
Tony then doubled up his pot count with a win in the F1x event.
The Vet Fours and Eights continued to manfully win their heats only to be taken out by Peterborough the eventual winners; sometimes by painfully close distances: the Vet D4+ stroked by Simon de Maria lost by just 4 ft. the Vet D8+ by 1/3 length.
In an all Maidstone heat, the Es defeated their younger, D scratch opponents, chosen as a 'just Beast it' crew... with a little help from their 3 second head start.
A great, fun, if tiring weekend. No doubt the outrageous behaviour of the Veterans on Saturday night will be well catalogued on facebook, and possibly a Blog entry...
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