Bassenthwaite Cruising Capers

Over the long August Bank Holiday, the GP14 Cruising section organised a fun weekend event: Bassenthwaite Cruising Capers. This sounds brilliant, and certainly gained a new enthusiast in the shape of our Association secretary Steve Parry, who has taken the time to write up this excellent report, which is reproduced below. (Editor: I do recommend it to […]
Irish Nationals 2017

The GP14 2017 Irish Nationals were held on 19th-21st August at Ballyholme Yacht Club. 29 boats competed which included one visiting team from the UK – John Hayes, an ex 470 campaigner from Southport who was sailing with Joel James. With conditions varying wildly over the 3 days and nine races, from 30 knot gusts […]
Testing Photo hosting options
Test sites for new GP14 Assoc photos. ISSUE: Picassa was ideal, but Google photos is not so good – it allows people to “follow” and adds their profile pictures above the photo, which looks very naff, and seems no way to stop that! So what other options are there that don’t cost a lot? Could […]
Training Report and Video – Looe 4&5 August 2017

Ten boats arrived for sea training on the Friday and Saturday before the 2017 UK National Championships at Looe. The off-shore wind meant conditions in the dinghy park where not representative of the lively breeze in the bay, which proved to be the case for most of the week! Coaches – Jules Forde (Friday) and […]
2018 Gul GP14 World Championship Event Update

Entry for the 2018 Gul GP14 World Championship opened on 08 August at a special launch at the Looe Nationals and already 50 places have been taken in a week! The 2018 Worlds will take place at Mount’s Bay Sailing Club – probably one of the best dinghy championship venues in the UK, set in […]
2017 GP14 National Championship – Days 3, 4 & 5
Day 3 and after the day that will gone down in the GP14 folk lore as ‘Black Flag Monday’ we were thankfully back to gate starts for Tuesday and races 4 and 5. Although there was probably one pairing who would have preferred line starts after the Bolton ‘Bumper Car’ Boys Gary Deighan and Dale […]
2017 GP14 National Championship -Final Results & Prizes

The final results for the 2017 GP14 National Championship, plus the prize lists, are now available here. Key parts of all the races were captured on video, you can see them in our Video Gallery
2017 GP14 National Championship – Days 1 & 2
Looe Sailing Club, 06 & 07 August Glorious sunshine greeted the competitors for the first day of the 2017 GP14 National Championships, part of the Craftinsure Super 8 Series, as 64 boats rigged on the crowded beach front. The best numbers for a week long GP14 Nationals for over a decade despite an unprecedented number […]
GP14 Nationals – Results

Results for Day 1 of the National Championship at Looe S.C. Please click here