Who heard about this?
25-26th Feb at the
SportScotland National Centre, Burnside Road, Largs.
"It will be bigger and better in 2012. It is a
fantastic opportunity for everyone to catch up with everything sailing,
windsurfing and powerboating. There will be a number of workshops,
conferences and talks taking place over the weekend as well as the new
'RYA Scotland Boat Show'."
Click the logo for more info on the RYA Scotland site.
"One of the major
attractions that will be at the RYA Scotland Boat Show is the RYA's 'Our
Sporting Life - Sail for Gold' Olympic heritage exhibition.
It will be a celebration of our British Olympic and Paralympic sailing
heritage. You can immerse yourself in 112 years of triumph and glory at
an extraordinary exhibition celebrating Britain’s unique Olympic and
Paralympic sailing legacy. " Entry to the RYA Scotland Boat
Show is free whereas the Big Weekend workshop/conference thing is £25
per day. There are some interesting looking sessions in the
programme.
There
is also an RYA Regional Race Management seminar being held at RGYC on
4/5th Feb. (subject to demand /£75) but Regional Race Managers probably
knew about that anyway.
Ouch!

This is another of those yachts ashore at
Connel. You do have to wonder about leaving a yacht
out on a somewhat exposed mooring over the depths of winter with sails
and a big cockpit canopy on. The wee notice on the bow says
it's not for salvage. It was pretty bad everywhere but from
what we hear, over at Rhu they'll be rhu-ing the rhu-inn of not a few.

This
is from our newest sponsor. I had a smartphone myself for a
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Winter Sailing

In
the Caribbean. Apparently this is two ex-Sigma sailors who
have
been slumming it on Sojana and were 2nd, by 1 point in the Superyachts
Challenge. The first prize is a cask of rum (since if you're on a
Superyacht I imagine you have more Rolexes than you know what to do
with) and one would conclude that 2nd prize must be two casks of rum as
seen here. Now these here Superyachts. Why don't more of us
do
this kind of thing? You can charter Sojana (pictured below)
for a
mere 53,000 euros a week. Between 8 guests that should be ok, no?
Incidentally she's a Farr 35m (115ft) owned by Peter
Harrison. Do your own google to see more pictures.

photo credit: Christophe Jounay
FFs 2012

The Holy Loch
Flying Fifteens had one of the the best regular turnouts of any racing
group on the Clyde last year and are at it again. The 2012
Travellers Series is more or less organised and details can be found on
www.flyingfifteenscotland.co.uk.
John Orr hopes to get confirmation soon of a May event over on the east
coast (wherever that is !). The series will also extend into
Englandshire with a visit to Derwent Reservoir in July and Helensburgh
Regatta is also on the agenda. In adition to these new venues
the word is that there will be more new faces this year.Hyde Sails will
be the headline sponsor again and Samteq, web developers based
at Holy Loch, continue to assist with provision of the
website.
Breaking The Ice
FYC
in conjunction with main
sponsors Clyde
Marina, and Geronimo Sailing School announce the 2012 Ice Breaker
Regatta and Training Weekend to be held at Clyde Marina, Ardrossan with
the
assistance of the RYA.
The main aim of this event is to
help you get
your boat and crew
in shape before the race season on the Clyde and as before some of the
best coaches around have been enlisted, namely Barry Dunning, RYA
Keelboat Coach and the irrepressible John Highcock of Saturn Sails
along with sail gurus from North Sails and Hyde.
It's
a two day event with the same format
http://www.ryascotland.org.uk/aboutus/bigweekend/Pages/default.aspxboth
days with a Barry Dunning
briefing at 9am in Cecchinis bistro and a series of short sharp
practice races, run by Pete Wright starting at 10.30. There is coaching
on the water followed by debriefing and video analysis of the day at
4pm
and
finally a prizegiving on Sunday.
FYC has noted the rise of
an SB3 fleet on the Clyde and would
like to invite these boats to get in touch and they will try to
organise
separate starts and class coaching if numbers permit.
Berthing for the weekend will be
free. For additional berthing
requirements, please contact the
Marina.
The official entry form and race
instructions will be on the FYC
website soon.
Additionally: On
7th or 8th April, an IRC weigh in will help optimize your IRC
handicap rating before the season starts. Please let Chris
Dodgshon at Clyde Marina know if you wish to attend so he can finalize
numbers and cost per boat.
Chas adds- This
has been a really enjoyable and helpful event in the past and if you
haven't tried it you should. I know it's a long way from the
hallowed waters of the East Patch but it's worth the trip.
Helensburgh Winter
Series
HSC
once again invites
sailors
of anything from Oppies to Cats to their Open Winter Series 2012.
Enter on the day and entry includes temporary HSC membership
and
boat storage for the duration. It's fortnightly - Feb 5th ,
19th,
March 4th , 18th. 2 races pers day first start 12.45.
Entry for the whole thing £35 or £25 for HSC members.
Bargain!
click
the pic
of HSC's cool new clubhouse for more info
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