2017 Round Holes Trophy report

Round Holes 2017

RED HOT COMPETITION FOR THE ROUND HOLES TROPHY The fleet may have been modest but the competition at the front was sizzling! Six Series One boats came to the line on the River Ouse in glorious spring weather for York RI Sailing Club’s fourth year of the Round Holes Trophy. The oldest entrant was no.20, […]

2017 GP14 Nationals Update

2017 GP14 National Championship

Latest Update Event is this week! See latest results and race reports here. Taking place at Looe Sailing Cub between 05 and 11 August the 2017 GP14 Nationals sold out its original allocation in just 29 days! We now have 12 fantastic sponsors on board: North Sails, Dinghy Rope, Impact Marine, Allen, Exe Sails, SP Boats, Paintcraft, Gingerboats, Zhik, Cornish Orchards and […]

2017 Northern Bell Results and News

Northern Bell 2017

Results for the 2017 Northern Bell Series will be posted here as they are received. The Northern Bell is running thick and fast through the spring with open events every fortnight. Plus the Northern Area news.

NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER

Mounts Bay S.C. Perth, Australia

In Perth the Australian contingent is getting out the winter woollies, with temperatures dropping down into the 20s we have drawn the curtains on another season and now revert to our ‘once-a-month’ winter series. It has certainly been an odd season weather-wise proving climate change is definitely out there with this year having a noticeable […]

Ladies that Launch!

After the success of last year’s ladies training at South Staffs Sailing Club we have been asked to run another session this year. We have been offered Sunday 16 July at Welsh Harp Sailing Club. This would follow their popular Open on 15 July and enable you to make a weekend of it enjoying the […]

E Howard-Davies Youth Training Week – Full Report

Watch the video The GP14 Youth Training Week has been an annual fixture in the GP14 calendar for many years, thanks to the memorial fund set up in the name E Howard-Davies, a former Secretary, President and strong advocate of youth sailing. This year it was held for the first time at Portland, in conjunction […]

E Howard-Davies Youth Training Week – Day 5

The guest coach on day 5 was British Sailing Team 470 sailor Sophie Weguelin and the focus of the day was on starting strategy and race strategy. There was a cherpy breeze and conditions good for practicing how to get the advantage in close encounters and avoiding dirty air. In the afternoon the sailors we give exercises that […]

E Howard-Davies Training Week – Day 4

Today’s guest coach for day 4 of the GP14 Youth Training Week was Andy Davies from HD Sails. After a quick briefing on mark rounding, hovering and starts it looked like there would be enough wind to launch and put it into practice. Unfortunately the wind died once the boats were on the water, but […]

E Howard-Davies Training Week – Day 3

The wind was up to a good force 5 today resulting in quite a few capsizes! Neil and Storm began the day with a classroom session on starting followed by transit exercises in the dinghy park before launching to spend the rest of the morning putting it into practice. After a quick lunch it was out again to continue yesterday’s work […]

E Howard-Davies Training Week – Day 2

Today’s guest coach Neil Marsden started with a session on boat tuning followed by an early lunch and long afternoon on the water. Unfortunately a Port-Starboard incident caused some boat damage but no injuries. Luckily Chris Beddow was on-shore and able to make the necessary repairs and get the boats ready for the morning whilst SI […]