News about the UK Flying Fifteen fleet

The annual Belgian National Championships are as ever on the first weekend of October. This is a friendly event fuelled by Chimay beer!

An excellent turnout of 50 boats for the Flying 15 northern championship, after high winds over the last couple of days, were greeted with plenty of sunshine and a mirror like lake, with a forecast of F1 from the east. 
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Rupert Mander sailing a Flying 15, won not only White Group (that is, all Keel and sports boats), but also the whole event Cowes Week for all vessels. Click to read the whole story.

Aldeburgh Yacht Club were delighted to host their annual Open Meeting with 4 visitors and 10 local boats out of the burgeoning home fleet of 16 racing fifteens. Click to read more.

2024 is a worlds qualifying year for the Flying 15 class and not surprisingly, a large and high quality fleet of 40 boats turned up at Grafham to find the sun shining and some wind blowing.

Principal Race Officer Nigel Denchfield told the assembled sailors at the briefing to expect some possible windshifts on the race course- how right he was!
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A very competitive championships despite the lower than usual numbers. Graham Vialls and Chris Turner ended up worthy champions (again!). Read the full report for race by race details.