Final Results
August 24th, 21:131st place, 1898 points - Ian MacArthur (The Royal Sun Alliance National Gliding Trophy)
2nd place, 1858 points - Tim MacFadyen
3rd place, 1808 - Andy Davis
The Peter Ward Memorial Trophy for the best performance by someone under the age of 25 in a competition run by The Cotswold Gliding Club - Will Ellis.
Much thanks was dished out to many well deserving people - who know who they are.
David Roberts, Chairman of the Royal Aero Club, formally closed the 2008 Club Class National Gliding Competition at 8.55pm.
Well done Olly for a top comp.
Time for prize giving
August 24th, 19:24The scores will depend on how many people get past Y and we haven't had enough loggers back from fields yet to be able to know... so we've set a provisional time for prize giving as 8.15pm
Finishers
August 24th, 16:42
Andy Davis and Ian MacArthur have just finished.
First landout
August 24th, 16:02191 is at Charlbury.
Starters and relights
August 24th, 15:2620 started but probably ten have landed back, including Tim MacFadyen who was back in the air quicker than a rat up a drain pipe.
Start open
August 24th, 15:06Start opened at 14.55 with a few gone already.
Fall back
August 24th, 13:41Olly has briefed a fall back to Task B. First launch not before 14.00.
The party
August 24th, 13:39Having spent the afternoon making arrangements to serve the food under canvas on the 'terrace', it started to rain at about 7.20pm. So it was decided to change location and serve food and eat in the workshop (where we've been holding briefing).
Alex went to fetch the bus, whilst others re-arranged tables, lit candles and found some music to put through the PA. The food was brought down Richard who was driving our launch point bus, which then returned for the guests. Who needs a pink stretch limo when you have a big yellow bus - there is no cooler party transport. The guests brought enough liquid refreshment to last through the meal. And it worked! Slight shortage of cutlery at one stage, but a washing up station was swiftly set up and manned by David Roberts.
It was noted that the current contest leader was first in the queue for pudding.
Many thanks to Richard, Sandy and their team of people for providing such a lovely spread. Numbers were higher than expected, but most people were happy and all in all it was a really enjoyable evening.
And thank you to everyone for mucking in and going with the flow.
James' Howidunnit
August 24th, 13:26
It was nice to get home and it was easy, but then I s'pose it always is when you win.
Nice day. Good fun.
(Blogger's note: I couldn't make him say any more than that. In fact he just wanted to carry on reading the 'Boats for Sale' page of a magazine, so I left him to it. Even the usually terse Webmaster was surprised by James' brevity...)