1971 Alec Stone wins the inaugural world trophy in solo 1370 at Hayling Island. 107 competitors reflects the status of the class and the love of the venue. strong winds and big seas kept the fleet inside the harbour on two of the days and forty stayed ashore on day 4 as the remainder set off with much swimming. Stone had opted to use this race as a discard and so the final race on the final day would determine the champion with dutchman jan bart Lucas (NED) equal on points. The conditions were light and stone took the win and title with Lucas eighth on the water and second overall from ellemeet (NED), Kaan (NED) and Conway jones in Solo 1405 Geronimo who had won the practice race and backed it up with a 8-2-1. He was lying fifth in the final race before capsizing on the run and that ended his hopes. Mrs e Kelley wins the vacher cup in solo 1221, built by Turnham motorboats and dutchman h. Holst wins the Turnbull trophy for Kwv de kaag. The dutch had been superb in the short chop in the harbour, tall, athletic and brave but stone recorded 1-3-3 DNS and the final race win was the bullet to the head for the dutch hopes. Tony freer raced winsome in the early nineties and he was surprisingly fast in such an old solo.
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