Category: Sailing

More Out & About (Toppers & RS500s)

More success for Rollesby sailors out and about at championships.

Daniel found qualifying (63rd) for the gold fleet at the Topper nationals hard work but once there was fully on form finishing a cracking 26th overall out of a massive entry of 204 boats. A superb performance, hope this inspires the new crop of youngsters we’ve seen out this summer (time for Daniel to run some basic training?)

Meanwhile 51 RS500s attended their European Championships. Three of the four Gorleston crews spend their winter practicing with us – Phil & Tamsin Highfield were very consistent finishing 24th, Dave Houghton & John Symonds (31st) spent the week trying and eventually just succeeding in catching Anna Zmura & Keith Sykes (36th). Fellow Gorleston members Tim & Heather Wilkins however showed them a clean transom winning the event outright – many congratulations………..

There’s plenty of others attending local regattas, John Saddington won the Hickilng Evening Regatta! – Please let me know how you got on and I’ll post something here.

Ian

Out & About (Wayfarering! Now Solos too…)

6/8/14    It was the Solos turn last week and while we couldn’t quite live up to the standard of the Wayfarers the week before we didn’t disgrace ourselves!

Roger Wilson managed a very creditable 38th out of 72 entrants, despite being the only Broader to capsize all week, slowly improving his performance all week. Ian Ayres spent the week recovering from a poor start and rose to 51st, just piping Bob Hawkins into 52nd who had started with a 9th place in race one, both of them wimped out on the windiest day following a 45 minute dead run out to the start-line.

 

25/10/14  Congratulations to Phil & Dennis Manning for coming 17th (out of 58) at the Wayfarer Europeans – results which included several top places at the first mark.  Also to Mike Mc for winning the event quite convincingly – must be all that training he gets with us over the winter….

Several other Rollesby sailors will be out and about at Nationals, European and even World events over the next few weeks – whilst we are not expecting winners we’ll be doing the best we can – watch out for results on the sailing websites.

Ian

Rollesby Broad – Ice Watch

As regular winter sailors / website watchers will know I’ve been carrying out this task for
the last few winters, putting updates on the site on Thursday or Friday often with an update
on Saturday, if the weather is likely to threaten sailing. I know those who travel long distances
to sail have really appreciated this, particularly in marginal conditions.

This was very easy as I lived only 10 minutes walk from the bridge. Unfortunately I have now
moved and have no reason to venture passed Rollesby other than to sail.

So I’m looking for a volunteer or two to take on this role, someone who lives near the club or
passes regularly particularly during or towards the end of the week. Someone who is willing to
put a quick note on the website – or give me or Keith a message and we’ll do it.

Thanks
Ian

Holiday Sailing 29th Dec & Jan 1st

Need some fresh air! – Pursuit race Sunday 29th – first start 11 am, just one race so will probably aim for a 90 minute race for first starters. AMMENDMENT – Lunches available as usual after racing.

Wed 1st January – our well known and very popular FREE open meeting run as usual by the Sallis family, 3 mixed fleet handicap races, tell your friends, catering as usual, see you there.

Ian

Singlehanders Open – June 9th – DUTY TEAM NEEDED

Calling all Multisail members

Following a very successful meeting for your fleets in early May, hosted by the Singlehanded sailors! We now need you to volunteer to run their meeting this coming weekend.

If you’ve not run a meeting before don’t panic there will be some experienced hands around, or you can team up and pool your expertise!
Two fleets on the day (if sufficient entries) Solos will start first, mixed fleet second.
THanks

IAn