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In 2008, the Sprint 15 una-rig National Championships are being held at Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, in the warm waters of sunny Southend-on-Sea. It is a special year for the Sprints because 2008 is the 30th anniversary of the boat and it is also the 60th anniversary of Thorpe Bay Yacht Club.

We have every reason to celebrate. Not only do we have a versatile boat, we continue to have strength in numbers. Being such a significant anniversary, a big entry is in prospect. This is a fitting tribute to all those that have contributed to our growth over thirty years.

It is also fitting that Thorpe Bay is hosting these Nationals. TBYC has a fleet of 24 boats and has become a major club for Sprints. It is good to be recognised in this way, especially as there is going to be a high local entry.

A special programme of events has been planned, as you will see below. We are celebrating our 30th anniversary and encouraging the younger sailors to take part by offering free entry to Sprint 15 Association members who are under 23 and in full-time education provided they pre-enter. Continue Reading »

Hi all, yet another frustrating day in the dingy park waiting for the wind to drop still 30 – 40knt gusts!!!!

Only to have the second day cancelled again.

All I can say is that the race officers had it right. As some of the good guys decided to take the bladeridder FX demo boat out for a sail this lasted approx 3 mins before the boat spectacularly folded up!!!

Moths obviously don’t sail in 30knts!!!

Hoping for some racing tommorrow

keep you updated Steve

The Hornet is a fast spinnaker and trapeze dingy and the class usually get 30 or so boats at their National meeting.

The Hornet National meeting this year is on 10th to 15 August 2008 at Stone SC on the Blackwater ( only 45 minutes drive from Thorpe Bay).

If anyone is available and interested in crewing with me for that week, please contact me on:

Graham Dare 07946 413923 or [email protected]

A big thank you to all those who assisted with the Finn Nationals this weekend. 

A number of people took a day’s holiday on Friday to ensure things ran smoothly.  Yesterday we had the added ingredient of a particularly strong onshore breeze making launching and recovery a tricky affair for boats with fixed rudders. 

Particular heroes were Samantha Husk, Robin Foster-Taylor, Barry Duce, Paul Farrell, Keith Persin, Kevin & Lesley Iles, Theresa Ryall, Martyn Ellis and Glen Ratcliffe, all of whom at times were neck-deep assisting Finns launching or catching them before they hit the beach.  Many others helped with trolleys and hauling boats over the shingle.

I would also like to pay tribute to all those who responded to our emergency with slick efficiency.  I’m pleased to say I saw him later in the day looking much better than he was when he was brought ashore.

A big thank-you to all involved in the running of the Finn Nationals,without your support we couldnt run this type of event.

Thank you

Spratty

Hi all, Not much going on here sailing cancelled on first day due to high winds

Boat is now fully preped following a 10 hour day in the dinghy park!!!

Lots of help from the good guys V friendly class

Have attempted to attach a small vid clip of practice last thursday

Hopefully Sailing will start tommorrow Mon 7th July

Thats all for now Steve

Congratulations to the class winners and their crews:

Nick Elmore (Multihull with Asymetric), Roger Pimm (Multihull without Asymetric), Mark Dell (Monohull PY under 945) and Spratty (Sandhopper).

Although there is no category of outright winner, Nick Elmore was the fastest on corrected time.

Please click on the photo right to see some pics from the Nore Race 2008

Well done to all of you who competed in Sundays Nore, a special well done to John Glynn who this year competed in his 30th Nore race.

All results can be found on www.benfleetyachtclub.org 

This Sunday the 29th June 2008 is Benfleet Yacht Club’s Nore Race.

Please click on the photo right for more details and entry forms.

I would like to apologise to all who competed in the Peter Hayes Trophy on Sunday, particularly Kevin & Lesley Iles.  The published results are wrong and so the worthy winners by over two minutes on corrected time are Kevin & Lesley in their new National 12. 

I would like to thank all those who emailed me over the last couple of days patiently pointing out the anomolies. No doubt the Sandhoppers will want a word with me because I told them they had cleaned up…

The revised results will be published as soon as someone with the appropriate skills can get to the office to upload them.