Exeter Reign over record Cranfield fleet

Exeter Business School won the highly desirable new Cranfield Regatta trophy with a very impressive performance, winning three races out of the five

sailed, and discarding a third place.

This was the 19th annual Cranfield regatta, held on the Solent in Sunsail’s fleet of identical Jeanneau Sunfast 37s.

Business Schools from all over the UK took part, along with teams from Rotterdam School of Management, and Smurfitt, Dublin. In all, there were a record 36 boats participating, 17 from Cranfield and 19 from other schools.

It was a much more competitive event than for the last couple of years, with strong crews from London Business School, Manchester and Smurfitt battling it out for second place, and Rotterdam, Warwick, Henly,

Portsmouth and a couple of Cranfield boats being there or thereabouts.

Day 1 saw Exeter well ahead of the fleet, winning two and coming third in the other race. Smurfitt were looking

the best of the rest with a second and a first place, but their score was marred by a 9th in th third race.

Manchester and Cranfield 2 took the other two 2nd places on offer, but also lacked consistency, so LBS with a 3-4-3 were lying second overnight.

The first race of day 2 sealed the regatta for Exeter. Another bullet meant they were uncatchable at the top of

the table, and could safely discard the final race – which they promptly did. The battle was on, however, for second place, as Smurfitt and Manchester had a chance of discarding their poor results. In the 4th race, London Business School, with just another 4th place beat them both in the first race. Manchester were 5th,

while Smurfitt had a nightmare, and came in in 19th. For the final race, London Business School finally found the form that had won them the trophy in 2009, and brought home a first place, allowing them to discard one of their two fourths. Smurfitt came in second, but had to carry their 9th from race 3, along with two 2s and a 1, to finish 3rd overall, and Manchester has another disappointing race, bringing home a 5th to finish in 4th place.

Full results:

Cranfield Regatta 2010

Position	Boat No	Team	Skipper	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Total
1st	6	Exeter	R Neale	1	3	1	1	3	6
2nd	25	LBS Alumni	KRasmussen	3	4	3	4	1	11
3rd	31	Smurfitt	S Hayes	2	1	9	18	2	14
4th	33	Manchester	IJ McLeod	4	2	12	5	5	16
5th	26	Cranfield 16	D Peerless	6	6	5	2	9	19
6th	19	Cranfield 5	J Tinsobin	8	14	7	3	7	25
7th	22	Warwick	C Best	7	7	6	9	8	28
8th	24	RSM	B Groeneveld	5	18	14	8	4	31
9th	12	Cranfield 3	R Smith	11	10	4	7	14	32
10th	51	Cranfield 2	J Renwick	10	11	2	13	21	36
11th	4	Alumni 2009	S Rooke	9	5	24	10	12	36
12th	65	Henley	P Bennett	13	22	10	6	10	39
13th	28	Bath 1	S Horlock	15	8	15	11	11	45
14th	9	Portsmouth	D Giffard	12	16	13	17	6	47
15th	1	Cranfield 11	M Surridge	1	17	17	22	16	51
16th	27	Cranfield 9	D Jones	22	15	20	14	13	62
17th	34	LBS 1	H Fairbrother	23	13	27	12	17	65
18th	2	Imperial 1	T Stuart	14	9	19	24	24	66
19th	29	Bath 2	L MacDonald	21	19	18	19	15	71
20th	3	Cranfield 8	M Stead	16	29	16	21	19	72
21st	32	Cranfield 12	R Harris	20	25	22	15	22	79
22nd	11	Cranfield 15	T Brown	37	12	8	23	37	80
23rd	21	Cranfield 6	I Van Wees	17	20	23	25	23	83
24th	43	Imperial 2	A Lane	24	24	26	16	20	84
25th	30	Cranfield 10	P Mercer	19	23	29	27	18	87
26th	38	LBS 2	M Beetz	25	25	31	20	25	95
27th	41	Cranfield 14	A Peters	37	27	11	26	32	96
28th	49	SAID	D Seiderer	18	28	21	37	37	104
29th	7	Aberdeen	T Paling	37	21	37	28	27	113
30th	17	Cranfield 4	M Hodge	37	31	28	31	26	116
31st	42	Cranfield 1	T Ouvry	37	26	25	34	33	118
32nd	16	Leeds	C Sharman	37	32	30	29	30	121
33rd	47	Cranfield 7	B Dormer	37	30	32	35	28	125
34th	14	Cranfield 13	T Balchile	37	33	37	32	29	131
35th	48	Bath 3	F van Niekerk	37	34	37	30	37	138
36th	20	Ashridge	C Wells	37	37	37	33	31	138

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Exeter Reign over record Cranfield fleet

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