GBR161 Loudon, Kimberly and Loudon British champions

written by Matias Collins  on  September 2  of  2025 and read by 454

The start at the BSA Nationals
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Past Saturday evening all the crews and helpers enjoyed a supper of Hog Roast at the Lochaber Yacht Club after a nice day of light breeze where 4 races had been held, the gathering was important to prepare the early start on Sunday.

With the first race start at the unsociable hour of 0900 teams were treated to a pleasant southwest breeze of about 0 knots and, some sunshine. These conditions remained until the end of the last race at around mid-day. Then the first of the 35-knot gust arrived in time when boats where already heading into the docks.

Series leader after Saturday GBR 161 Solaris sailed by legend Hamish Loudon, Victoria Kimber and Iain Loudon managed to stay ahead of the nearest challengers with the exceptional finishes 2,2,1 achieving the main objective, the British Title the third to Hamish at age of 83, a victory over GBR 155 sailed by Gary Richardson, Karl Sloane and Andrew Ryan who caught up with GBR 157 sailed by Keith Falconer, Karen Dean and Ian Fleming to come second by just one point.

It's worthy of note that five boats, about half of the fleet had one female in the crew, and two of them climbed at the podium, congratulations Victoria and Karen. Also the crew ages ranged from 16 to 83 years old.

The nationals also had visitors from Ireland, two teams and one of them IRL 2 with Daithi Murphy, Cormac Murphy and Rachel Deasy had a great racing knocking the podium door finishing 4th overall and taking on their home trip two bullets to show off next weekend at the Irish pubs...

The British Nationals for 2026 will be decided at the upcoming months hoping for a great turn out like this edition.

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The mid fleet also in the light wind challenges
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GBR 155 and 157 in their dispute during the light winds of Saturday
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The winners leading the last race
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