JOHN McCLAREN'S boat Maridadi was awarded the Addison Gold Cup at the culmination of this year's Torbay Week.

The Gold Cup is awarded for the best overall performance in the regatta by an IRC boat and McClaren, a member of Royal Western and Salcombe Yacht Clubs, took it with seven points.

He was followed by Royal Torbay Yacht Club's John Pollard in Xcellent, and Neil Trathen from Saltash sailing a Laser 28.

The Admiral's Cup for the winning team of three boats with the most points went to Team Mad, consisting of Astarte (Nick Jones) from Chichester YC, Maridadi and Demolition (Mel Sharp) from Flushing SC.

Going into the last day there was all to play for and, with winds gusting up to 29 knots and a rough sea state, race officer Bill Butcher had to keep a close eye on the forecast.

But to his credit, both junior races — the fleet was split up into Gold and Silver — were completed followed by a dash to the harbour as the winds built.

In the Gold Fleet, Jovian Short and James Barlow in BCNU once again showed their superiority in these conditions and became 2010 Torbay Week junior champions.

Jovian and James, who are also the current RS Feva RTYC class champions — along with many of the other juniors taking part in Torbay week — have competed at national and world level.

RTYC duo Morgan Peach and Herbie Harford came in a very respectable second with Ollie Wright and Luke McDermott, a new pairing, taking third.

Alice Rumbelow and Jermina Crossland, sailing Alice's International Cadet Black Mariah, led the all-female crews by taking fourth, with Emma and Jessica Scourfield fifth and Sarah Hussey and Hannah Harvey-Trott sixth.

The Silver Fleet, which was made up of Toppers from Paignton Sailing Club and Q'bas from RTYC, was won by Carys Roberts from Paignton in a Topper.

Paris Thomas and Jack Stephens, also in Paignton Sailing Club Toppers, took second and third place respectively.

All the juniors who took part should be applauded for the boat handling skills they showed in an event that saw many older and more experience sailors staying ashore during difficult conditions.

The race committee and the safety boats crews did a sterling job to keep the juniors out on the water and safe.

Special mention should go to 12-year-old Max and nine-year-old Cody Griggs of RTYC, the youngest and by far the lightest crew in the Gold Fleet who, to their credit, finished all eight races and showed their 'never say never' attitude.

The Junior Fleet and the PY Dinghies were the only fleets to complete all of their scheduled races.

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