Congratulations Sam Barker! First at the Ovington Inlands on Grafham Water

Published 9:31am on 23 Mar 2023

Sam was on impressive form last weekend at Grafham Water winning the Musto Skiffs Ovington Inlands. The weekend started very wet as Grafham Water welcomed 25 keen Musto skiff sailors. In the early part of the week, the forecast looked like it could be a full-on weekend, but as the week went on it became apparent it was going to be the complete opposite. Thankfully, though, the rain did mostly hold off as everyone hit the water.

The first race was started in approx. 5-8 kts and remained consistent for all four of the day's races, Sundays racing was slightly more breezy (though very shifty!).

Sam's results over 9 races: 1-2-2-1-2-2-1

Nice One Sam!

Photograph used with kind permission © Tim Olin / www.olinphoto.co.uk

This is a heavily edited version of the full report written by Danny Boatman which can be found here at Yachts and Yachting: