OTT Plaque
Over the Top action
Year | Helm | Crew | |
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1980 | Pete Ewing | For taking a Spark to Lanzarote on British Airways as excess baggage. | |
1982 | Udo Prothmann | For accidently sailing his Spark behind the iron curtain and getting arrested | |
1985 | Mike Johnson | For taking a Spark to The South Atlantic on a Royal Navy HMS Penelope and sailing it by the Icebergs & Penguins at South Georgia | |
1986 | Nick Dewhirst | For brainless enthusiasm and many capsizes at Grafham in a force 6 wind | |
1987 | Peter Richardson | For inviting 3 dozen caravanning friends to share the delights of the demo boats at Rutland and for laying on our first Northern Event at Bala | |
1989 | Jeremy Lewis-Evans | For circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight from Weston Sailing Club | |
1990 | Paul Fairbank | For sailing in force 7 winds, hail and lightening at Snettisham TT | |
1991 | Jimmy Johnson | For regularly sailing his Dart 15 at the age of 71 when both boat and sailor have several replacement parts | |
1992 | Jim Jeffrey | For sailing his Dart 15 across the English Channel | |
1995 | Tom Scott | The only cat to sail all the way to Walton in a very windy 3 Piers Race | |
1996 | Donald Ingram | For owning a Dart 15 and taking it apart to keep in the back garden and carrying it through the house every time he wanted to sail. | |
1997 | John Davies | For sailing his Dart 15 alone off Abersoch despite previous heart attacks | |
2003 | Carl Blenkinsop | For the largest trailer to carry 2 Dart 15s (for Carl and Michelle) because he has a bad back | |
2014 | Erling Holmberg | Liam Thom | For sailing their Sprint 15s from Shanklin to Alderney and back the following day with no support vessel |
2018 | Yvonne Pike | Sailing to Lundy with a pair of idiots | |
2019 | Liam Thom | Circumnavigation of Britain | |
2020 | not awarded | ||
2021 | not awarded |