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Chew Open won by Hamish McKay

From a fleet of 15 boats Hamish McKay and Andrew Lawson from the Royal Highland Sailing Club emerged winners by winning the last race to clinch this close fought meeting at Chew. Report posted..

Northampton Open re-scheduled to 9-10 June

Great news - the reservoir is full! Double up with the Jubilee weekend if you like, there's things to do both weekends...see the News & Fixtures pages...

Worlds Updates

Information plus updates relating to the 2013 Worlds in Hong Kong will be posted on News & Worlds 2013 pages.

Northerns Crown for Steve Goacher

30 boats, 15 clubs represented, 5 races, endless windshifts but one winner - Steve Goacher and Phil Evans. But it was a close run thing with Philip Snewin and Ros Coleman matching 2 race wins and losing by just a single point. Nigel and Gavin Tullett in 3rd made it a clean sweep for Royal Windemere Yacht Club.
Thanks also to sponsors SLAM who provided a fine range of prizes.
See Reports for more...

Ian Pinnell wins the Bulwark Trophy at Hayling

Ian Pinnell and Mark Darling win the Bulwark Trophy. Mark's 2nd Open win in a row....no pressure on his helm at the next one!
Report posted

Great sailing at Grafham 21-22 April

Greg Wells and Mark Darling count 1,1,1,1,2 to win with a race to spare. Simon Kneller and Dave Lucas are 2nd, Alan Bax and Paul Busby 3rd with Allen Cave and Graham Thomas 4th.
See the Reports page for more details

Steve & Phil Take First Event of Spring Season

Inland Championships at Burton 14-15 April

In a variable force 2-4 but chilly breeze that went up/ down and swung left then right Messrs Goacher and Evans had a most enjoyable weekend notching 2 wins and 2 seconds to win the Inlands Championship. In second were Justin Waples and Ian Stowe with Dave and Sally McKee third.

A big Thank You to this lovely club - we had great hospitality, superb boat lauch & recovery teams and well managed racing.

The Draycote Sprint

Draycote are back with something different!

After a year’s absence from the open meeting circuit due to a variety of reasons but mainly low water levels (yes even Draycote with its 640 acre reservoir when full can suffer from a lack of rain!), we are please to confirm that we will be holding an open meeting this year, but with two new twists. Firstly it will be a one day event rather than the normal two day, and will be held on Saturday 20th October 2012. By, holding the event on the Saturday only, we are guaranteed full use of the reservoir as there is no club racing on Saturdays and thus be able to set excellent courses even if water levels are low.

Secondly, each race will be a ‘sprint’ race lasting only 45 minutes or thereabouts with as many races as possible being held on the day. There will be a cut off time for when the last race has to start by and with the number of races being undetermined, we expect this to give some additional excitement to the event. We are still working on the details such as type of course, start/finish lines, use of black flags etc, and these will be announced in due course but everything will be geared around exciting racing with plenty of overtaking opportunities and fast turnarounds between races. After racing, there will the usual prize giving and then a meal in the clubhouse with its fantastic views over the reservoir. And if that’s not enough, all competitors are invited to stay and take part in the club racing on the Sunday.

This will be the first event of its type seen on the Flying Fifteen circuit so please put the 20th in your diary and come and enjoy this new and unique event on one of the finest reservoirs in the Midlands. Watch this space for further details of the Draycote ‘Sprint’ Open Meeting.

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