Sport
2012 Round the Island Race
Claude Fielding (MO 1941-42), ‘the Ancient Mariner’, celebrates his birthday with OKS, parents, pupils and staff
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ICHARD MALTBY, MASTER I/C King’s Sailing Club, and Richard Ninham, Housemaster Elect of Meister Omers, had a significant supporting role in a novel “time out” from King’s Week that proved very successful, and may be repeated. Three large 43 foot Sun Odyssey leisure cruisers were chartered, with their professional skippers, to participate in the annual race around the Isle of Wight, the biggest and one of the most exciting yacht races in the world. The yachts were crewed by (respectively) current pupils, parents of current pupils and a selection of OKS, one of whom (Claude Fielding) had been a boy for four terms at Carlyon Bay, in adult life had become a solicitor and yacht master, and now joined the OKS boat on his 86th birthday. The three crews assembled on 29th June at Haslar Marina, Gosport, preparatory to a day’s practice sailing in the Solent which took place in 30-35 knots of wind occasionally gusting to gale force, a hairy
introduction for those experiencing their first sail on the open sea. The three boats: Forrader, skipper Tim; crewed by current pupils Oliver Briggs, Harry Churchill, Giles Dean, Sasha Grover, Theo Haynes, Georgina MacDonald, Alex McCulloch, Charlie Trumper, Ben Warnick, with Richard Ninham and Lisa Cousins ex officio. Sparkling Spirit, skipper Ed; crewed by Richard Maltby and by parents
A day’s practice in the Solent took place in 30-35 knots of wind occasionally gusting to gale force
22 OKS OFFCUTS Autumn 2012
Jane Arnold, Nick (gr 1981-86) and Mary Briggs, Richard Churchill, Neil McCulloch, Austen Slattery, Sally and Julian Trumper, Richard Webster and Andrew Wickham. Vantage, skipper Debs; crewed by Claude Fielding, Chris Born (ln 196569), Malcolm Freeland (sh 1963-67), The OKS Magazine