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ISLAND SUCCESS AT SKANDIA COWES WEEK

By Martin Neville - Sunday, August 5, 2007
FISHBOURNE brothers Richard and Andrew Talbot posted second and third respectively in the RS K6 Class on Saturday.
The Island Games gold medallists finished just over a minute of each other, but behind Bill Masterman’s Scooby Doo Too.
Meanwhile, Island father and son team, Mark and Oliver Downer, topped the Etchells class with Cowes sailor and last year’s white fleet winner, Graham Bailey, second.
Mark’s brother, Kevin, was also celebrating after topping the Sportsboats class with Graham Law in Abstension II.
Elsewhere, Island brothers Andy and Peter Hough on Halcyon enjoyed a delicious ding-dong battle with Mr Bumble and Kewdeethree in the Squibs. The contest was eventually won by Tim Farquhar, with Margaret and Michael Barsby runners up, but all three finished within six seconds of each other.
In this diamond jubilee year for the Flying Fifteens, Rupert and John Mander from Seaview made a good start to defending their Cowes Week class winner’s trophy when they posted a first, ahead of Tempus Fuggit Duo and Fflux, sailed by Gavin Tappenden and Bob Preston, of Composite Craft in Cowes.
Cowes-based Whatever (Barry Byham and Roger Boxell) posted a second in the Sonars. All crew members are ex-Flying 15 sailors and between them have more than 30 Cowes Week wins since 1969.
In Class 7 IRC, Cowes boat-builder Adam Gosling came second in his half-tonner Earls Court Boat Show, while there was further local success with Louise Morton’s Espada coming in third place in Class 8 IRC.