Half Ton Classics Cup 2025

In our final press release for the 2011 Half Ton Classic Cup (see below), we reported that the prize for third place was awarded to Concord with Insatiable fourth.

Having received a copy of the full results at the time of the prize giving Insatiable’s crew believed there had been an error in the scoring for the regatta and that they should have been awarded third place overall.  The believed the error related to redress awarded to Concord following an incident between Miss Whiplash and Concord earlier in the week.  This error only became apparent at the end of the regatta when the final results were published.

Having been refused a hearing by the protest committee at the event Insatiable took the matter to appeal with the RYA.  The RYA found that the refusal to hear Concord’s protest at the time of the event was incorrect as  the protest committee must hear all protests and requests delivered under rule 63.1. The exception in rule 62.1(a) does not apply, as Insatiable was not a party to the original hearing.

The RYA’s protest committee heard the appeal at the end of March and decided in favour of Insatiable on the basis that the awarding of points to Concord was not in accordance with RYA guidelines for redress and was also unfair to all other competitors in the fleet, which is one of the key considerations of granting redress and scoring in these situations.

Following recalculation of the results Insatiable is awarded third place overall in the 2011 Half Ton Classic Cup.

FULL CORRECTED RESULTS

I spoke too soon when I said in the last post that we’d posted all the pics.  This morning we got some more great pics from the Pirate party which were kindly sent to us by Ursula.  Many thanks to Ursula and who ever else took these and well done again to everyone for a brilliant job with the fancy dress.

If anyone else has photos they’d like added to the blog please e-mail them to me at fiona.brown@fionabrown.com.

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That’s it folks. All the videos have been posted to Youtube, all the photos have been posted to the photo galleries (see links to the right), all the boats have gone home, and the fabulous 2011 Half Ton Classic Cup is sadly over.

Special thanks must as always go to our  title sponsor South Boats, supporting sponsors Best Water Technology, Spinlock, Wight Vodka, One Sails and Euro Car Parks and local supporters Goddards Brewery, Red Funnel/Isle of Wight Ferries, Shepards Wharf Marina, Kingston Marine Services, Ocean World/World Leisurewear, Hamo Thornycroft, Paskal Atkey Chandlers and many more.

And last but absolutely not least we must say a huge thank you to the entire team at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club in Cowes and to the organising committee led by Richard and Ursula Hollis who made the entire event possible.

I had a blast being your press officer and I’d like to say a big thank you to Alice, Charles, Bert and Philippe who helped with all the translations, on boat video clips, supporting information and so much more.

As Bert said at the prize giving – we’ll see you in two years time somewhere in France for another great Half Ton Classic Cup ……….

After the prize giving we spoke to the 2011 Half Ton Classic Cup Champions

Well known Cowes photographer Hamo Thornycroft, who kindly donated the beautiful one off canvas print of the winner of the Half Ton True Spirit Trophy, has posted a fantastic gallery of photos from the competition.  Click here to check them out.