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 […]
E Howard-Davies Youth Training Week – Day 1 – Thank you Craftinsure!

8 UK sailor and 4 Irish sailors arrived at Portland on Sunday 9 April for the E Howard-Davies Youth Training Week and were issued with smart team hoodies kindly donated by Craftinsure. On Monday morning house parents Gill Beddow and Adam Chaplin brought the sailors down to the dinghy park early so they could get their boats rigged […]
Midlands Championship Results and Report

The 2017 Midland Area Championship
Held on 08 & 09 April 2017 at Staunton Harold Sailing Club. Results are now published
Click here for the RESULTS
Josh Porter – My diary

Richard Estaugh Fund – Josh Porter, a young GP14 sailor and our first grant recipient, begins his diary. Read about what it means to him personally.
Craftinsure presents cheque for the “Super 8” Series

We were also delighted to welcome Mark Lee, Owner of Craftinsure and sponsors of our Super 8 Series, to present Ann with a cheque for £500. Photo by Mark Jardine/ YachtsandYachting.com
Ann Penny Dinghy Show Video Interview

Thanks to everyone who supported the Dinghy Show this year, we had a great Stand and signed up 10 new members to the Association. There was certainly a buzz around the Stand, with both dinghies getting plenty of attention. We also had people giving us the sales pitch to get our Class to race at […]
And the 2017 winner is…

For the third year in a row, thanks to generous sponsorship from EXE SAILS & COVERS LTD, we were able to offer a brand new GP14 genoa as the prize in a raffle, which was drawn at the RYA Suzuki Dinghy Show on Sunday 5 March.
Pre-Championship Sea Training

The Association are pleased to announce that entries are now open for Sea Training before the 2017 Welsh Championships at Aberdovey and 2017 UK National Championships at Looe.
2017 GP14 National Championships – a few extra places!

Well….we sold our 70 allocation for the 2017 GP14 National Championships in 29 days! We know that there are still people interested in joining the event, so we have been back in touch with the Club to see if we can ‘up the allocation’ and have managed to secure another 10 places. After that though […]


