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ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE
Sailing
By Tom Hunter, Master i/c Sailing
The Autumn Term was very productive
for our sailors at Farmoor Reservoir under
the careful watch of our Head of Sailing
Ed Tanner (
Moulsford Prep
). We saw Louis
Horslen (
The Beacon
), Sirawich Arjparu
(
Bangkok Christian International
) and Henry
Iliffe (
Brockhurst
) sail for the first time and
Richard Fuest (
St Paul’s Cathedral
), Matthew
Colson Lake (
New College
) and Anton
Frieser (
German School London
) join the
club with previous sailing experience. Louis
persevered and can now confidently sail
in challenging conditions and successfully
tackle the dry-capsize. Matthew Colson
Lake proved himself a very able sailor in our
regular races along with Richard Fuest who
showed great improvement in his handling
skills. We welcomed new Fourth Former
Anton Frieser who demonstrated great
enthusiasm. Eleanor Lewinton (
Oxford High
)
continued to progress and sailed excellently,
happily going out in all conditions as well as
regularly educating the boys in how to win
races through her meticulous assessment
of boat settings. Towards the end of term,
she tried out the trapeze in one of our
recently re-rigged and very fast Laser 3000s
which is back on the water thanks to the
work of Ed Tanner. James Colson Lake,
Oliver Ferneyhough (
Caldicott
) and Matthew
Colson Lake spent a large amount of time
last term practising sailing our 20ft Laser
SB20 keel boat. The hard work they put in
resulted in a 1-1 draw in two friendly races
we had against Eton and paves the way
for future races this year. At the Schools’
Championship at Itchenor in the summer, we
will be competing in our new International
420 race boat to be launched later this
term. There was also good sailing from
Henry Iliffe, Theo Norman (
Beaudesert
) and
Sirawich Arjparu and we were sorry to lose
Matthew Abell (
Dragon
) to other areas of
school life. Well done to all the sailing team
so far; there is a great deal still to come.