Budworth SC Secure £500 Lennon sponsorship for Masters/Youths

Budworth Sailing Club is pleased to announce LENNON RACEWEAR as the main sponsor for the prestigious GP14 Masters, Grand Masters and Youths competition to be held at Budworth SC on the 28th and 29th October. Lennon are providing the main prizes for the event in the form of vouchers. There will be a total value […]
Interview with the 2017 UK National Champions

The 2017 National Championships in Looe were tense. Going into the final day of racing and Mike Senior/Chris White and Ian Dobson/Andy Tunnicliffe were within a point of each other and both gunning for the win. Q. How close was the competition between yourselves and Mike and Chris? Andy: You could tell from the first race that […]
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

The Nationals are over for another year and what an event! Huge congrats to winners Ian Dobson and Andy Tunnicliffe, final results, videos, prize lists and race reports below. Many thanks to our fantastic sponsors: North Sails, Dinghy Rope, Impact Marine, Allen, Exe Sails, SP Boats, Paintcraft, Gingerboats, Zhik, Cornish Orchards, HD Sails and Sailpics. VIDEOS: A great set of videos from the Nationals, including […]
Southerns – Welsh Harp Victor 2017

Gp 14 Southern Travellers. Welsh Harp S.C 24 Boats Wind F2 SW Twenty Four boats competed for the 2017 GP Victor trophy, the fourth race of the GP14 Southern Travellers series at the Welsh Harp in North London. Three regular travellers showed up early in the boat park and one not so familiar boat rolled […]
2017 GP14 Welsh Area Championships

This year’s GP14 Welsh Area Championship on 01 and 02 July ended up being a Nationals warm up with 10 out of the 19 boats entered in the Gold Fleet. Held over two days at Dovey YC with a sea training event the day before there was a nice holiday vibe as the sunshine greeted […]
Tollesbury Open- Race Report

On Saturday 12th June 16 GP 14 sailing dinghies gathered at Tollesbury Sailing Club for the fourth round of the London and SE travellers’ series. After tea and bacon rolls to fortify the visitors, many of whom had endured the M25 etc, the boats launched from the public hard. Conditions were near perfect with a […]
2017 GP14 Southern Area Championships

Report by Michelle Evans The only way was Essex on 03 and 04 June for the GP14s with 18 making the trip to the east coast for the Southern Area Championships. The weekend was shared with the Fireball and Merlin classes which created a real big event buzz and run very professionally run by Brightlingsea […]
Northern Bell – Budworth SC GP14 Open

On Sunday 4th June, thirteen club boats offered a warm welcome to three visitors to the 2017 Budworth Sailing Club GP14 Open, part of the Northern Bell Circuit. The day offered bright and sunny conditions with moderate wind from the club’s preferred westerly direction, although the winds wildly fluctuated both in strength and direction throughout […]