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Friday, September 11, 2009
© Royal Southampton Yacht Club 2010

Planning is already under way for the next edition of the Biscay Challenge, at present scheduled for June 2011. We hope to return to Hondarribia and will include full details on this page as soon as we can.

In the meantime, take a look back on the 2009 Race on this page.


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BISCAY CHALLENGE NEWS

BISCAY BITES

 

 

 

PROVISIONAL RESULTS AS AT 08.09 Saturday,

June 20

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RACE REPORT

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RACE DIRECTOR'S BLOGS FROM HONDARRIBIA

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RACE SUMMARY
by Roger Townsend

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RETIREMENTS

 

Class 1
Comedy of Errors

(Tony/Sam White)

Going Concern

(Oliver Stanley/Micky Sst Aldwyn)

 

Class 2

Benedesha

(Terry Kingdon/John Blanchard)

Coryphaena - but continued to Hondarribia

(Gary Clements/Chris Knowlton)

Home Run

(John Goodchild/Mike Povey)

Imarra

(Rob Davis/Derek Prickett)

Papillon

(John Terrington/Declan O'Donghue)

Sage

(Ronald Gould/Allen Clarke)

Scherzo

(Peter/John Eustace)

Whistler

(Mark lloyd/Richard Willets)

 

Class 3

No Retirements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BISCAY CHALLENGE 2009
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CELEBRATIONS IN HONDARRIBIA

THE SPANISH boat Pintia has won Class 1 of the Royal Southampton's 540-mile Biscay Challenge yacht race from the Solent to northern Spain.

 

But it was a close run thing, and skipper Borja Garbizu's J133 had only ten minutes margin on corrected time from the winner of the last Santander race, Andy Hill and Matthieu Lathoud on the J105, Only Just, with the Corby 40, Cracklin Rosie of Brian and Graham Wilkinson in third place.

 

Race director Roger Townsend said: "It is wonderful that after over 500 miles racing, only 16 minutes (corrected time) separated second and third boats and 30 minutes separated Change of Course ahead of Mirua."

 

The result of Class 2 was a real cliffhanger with another Spanish entry, Geure Ametsa taking it to the wire. Bill Caldwell and Bill Brimble's Westerly, Growler eventually won the class, but if Geure Ametsa finished by around 02.15 local time this morning, she would have won. Asier Cristobal and Inaki Elortegi crossed the line at approximately 02.21, giving Growler victory by six minutes on corrected time.

 

Will Claxton and Matthew Gill won the Multihull class on the Dazcat 10, Paradox.

PRIZE GIVING
The prizes for Class 1 and 3 were awarded at a dinner in Hondarribia last evening by the President of the Basque Sailing Federation, Sr Rafa Munilla Zabalza.A separate prizegiving was held on Saturday for Class 2.

Pictures at finish by Fiona Graham-Mackay
Only Just - Class 1 runner up
Paradox - Multihull winner
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Class 40, Spliff gaining line honours and the Unai Basurko prize for being the yacht of the race, for Andrew Dawson and Jonathan McColl - Photo: John Greenway
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Biscay Challenge - Pictures from the finish line
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Pintia - Class 1 winner