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 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 […]

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

E-Howard-Davies Youths with CraftInsure Hoodies

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 […]