James hawker blasts into the leeward mark with a strong dutch presence on his transom and eventual ’72’ National champion Conway-jones inside the top six.
1973 Dutchman Ronald van vienan wins the dutch championship before capturing the world title (and junior title) in Plymouth, racing his stone built solo h422 ‘le baron rouge’, 1-1-4-4-(20) which he had restored to a high standard. Stone was second in Solo 2300 ‘cela enots’ and both sailors were utilising the new needlespars, vienan opting for weers and mountfield sails while stone used a musto. Conditions were generally light and the tide penal but stone won the only windy race. Conway-jones and Lovett lacked the consistency required and poor Ernie lee (pretty sure he is Mark lees’ dad) finished 10th in a race but was so excited he failed to sign off. and by the way…there were 135 competitors! Miss j. Green takes the vacher cup back to dell quay.
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