The final places went right down to the wire at the recently concluded Musto Performance Skiff European Championship at Lake Garda.

Chips Howath was consistently at the top of the fleet and, bar a broken tiller extension in race six, managed to secure first place overall from Richard Stenhouse.

Piero Sibello from Italy led into the final day but after a few swims in the brisk conditions, dropped to fourth overall.

Heavy air specialist Kevin Anderson put a good series in to pull up to third, while Piero Sibello and Colin Goodman also just did enough to keep Roger Oswald at bay.

Overall Results

1 GBR-063, HOWARTH CHIPS, Hayling Island SC (4 2 2 2 9 DNC 2 1) 22pts

2 GBR-074, STENHOUSE RICHARD, Rutland SC (3 6 4 4 3 5 1 2) 22pts

3 GBR-053, ANDERSON KEVIN, Derwent Reservoir SC (6 7 1 3 6 1 4 3) 24pts

4 ITA-091, SIBELLO PIERO, 04-175-166669-Sez.Vela Guardiadi Finanza (1 8 8 1 1 6 6 5) 28pts

5 GBR-060, GOODMAN COLIN, Bexhill Sailing Club (5 1 7 8 2 4 5 4) 28pts

6 SUI-058, OSWALD ROGER (2 OCS 3 6 4 2 3 8) 28pts

7 GBR-066, BALDWIN JIM, Notts County SC (15 OCS 6 5 11 3 7 6) 53pts

8 GBR-082, GRAEME OLIVER, Sunderland YC (8 11 5 9 14 7 8 7) 55pts

9 GER-084, HAUSSMANN MICHAEL, Merchinger SV e V. (11 3 DNF 10 8 DNC DNC 11) 79pts

10 SUI-081, BELL MARC, C. de la Voile Nouchatel (13 5 DNF 15 12 DNC 9 10) 82pts