Dan Henderson has just completed a very impressive nationals campaign in the Musto Skiff fleet at Hayling Island, with 74 entrants Dan finished 6th and first junior under 21 in this very competitive and technically demanding class of high performance single handed asymetric trapeze boat.
if you think you can sail then try one of these, just to get one to turn a corner is a great achievement having done a little bit of swimming alongside one on the odd occasion!
well done Dan

http://www.hisc.co.uk/openresults10/mustoskiff_2010.htm

a 5th and then 5 bullets, just don’t play with your rig next time and make it a straight six!

TBYC Hurricane Nationals 2010

25th – 27th June

Nationals Program

23rd June Early Birds Camping & Rigging. 24th June Training day with Andy Webb & John Ready

Day one race program: 25th June 3 points races, Briefing @ 8:30am, 1st Start @10am

Day two race program: 26th June 3 points races, 1st Start @10:45am

Day three race program: 27th June 2 points races, 1st Start 11:30am

Documents

Hurricane Nationals 2010 Entrants

Hurricane Nationals 2010 Entrance Fees

Social Program

Thursday /Friday normal TBYC club evening
Saturday Night: Live entertainment and Hog Roast
Sunday afternoon BBQ and Prize giving.

More information at www.hurricane59.com

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Kyle Stoneham decided not to defend his Inland Sprint 15 National title at Grafham last week end (he wanted to but you can only sail one boat at a time unfortunately!). Instead he opted to join up with Hugh Styles at the same venue & & compete in the F18 Inland Nationals sailing a Nacra Infusion. Some very hairy racing especially on Sunday created eventful situations for all competitors but guess who came through to win? Team Styles & Stoneham are the 2009 F18 Inland National Champs.

Congratulations to Peter Thompson and Steve Hopper (Sand star) who took the crown of Sandhopper National Champions for the second consecutive year.
29 boats entered this years event in champagne sailing conditions at TBYC.
Sandstar stormed the board with a 2-1-2 to secure top spot. second place was closely contested with Apollo (2nd Eyre & Burrell) just beating Squiffy ( Binnendyke & Saunders) into third.
many thanks to Hyde sails who Sponsored the prizes of new sails, the support crews headed by Tony Clarke, the race officer team of Geoff Appleton, Lisa Farrall for organising a great social event and Jo & the crew from the catering team at TBYC who helped make the whole weekend event a tremendous success.
full results and write up please go to www.sandhopper.org.uk

Thanks to all who participated in making the event such an enjoyable experience.
Barry

Over a busy weekend at Whitstable, Kyle won the Saturday Series with one first and two seconds. He then went on to score a third and double points in the Forts Race Tornado medal series race to secure overall victory. A supreme effort by Kyle and Oliver Herve in what was their first ever Tornado national event. None of ther other Tornado sailors had met this all conquering team from Thorpe Bay Yacht Club – but they wont forget them in a hurry either !

Congratulations to David White for winning the F18 series beating a profesional crew from Nacra UK to score a sensational series win with a large fleet of very competative sailors. 

Nick Elmore and Sam Spratt came second in the mixed fleet to complete a great event.

Thorpe Bay Yacht Club was mentioned more than any other at yesterday’s prize giving – certainly an impressive set of results.

Don’t forget the Sandhopper Nationals on 5th/6th September!

Congratulation to Alex Farrell on winning the Pico Nationals 2009. Alex won the National Championship Trophy and the top place Under 15 Trophy.

Chris Clark came 3rd sailing with new cadet member Maddie Shields taking the Designers Trophy for the first Adult/Cadet combination.

The first boat with a combined age of 21 years or under, and taking the Isle of Wight Trophy was Alex Warrington and Teddy Elmore.

With a 56 boat turnout this has firmly established TBYC as the best club to race your Pico with visiting boats from Wales to the Isle of Wight.

Thanks to Simon Bown for his work behind the scenes with preparation, to the Race Officer team and the Rescue Boat helms & crew.

Finally thanks to LaserPerformance for the great prizes and help throughout the event.

Less than two weeks to go so if you havn’t sent in your entry form now is the time to go and do it.

Free unique Pico National 2009 T-Shirt for the first 100 entrants, raffle for a new Pico, lots of  prizes and great sailing are just a few reasons to get yourself into this premier event.

This is going to be the biggest Pico Nationals ever with visitors from all over the UK.

Don’t be left sitting on the beach – be part of it.

Scroll down this page just 2 articles to get your entry forms.

Thorpe Bay Yacht Club is excited to play host to the 2009 Laser Pico Nationals. This will be an event for all levels of ability and provided you can sail a triangle course you are most welcome to attend.

Please download and fill in the following documents if you would like to race:

Pico Nationals 2009 NOR (Adobe Reader .pdf file)

Pico Nationals 2009 SIs (Adobe Reader .pdf file)

Pico Entry form Nationals 2009 (Adobe Reader .pdf file)

Pico Nationals 2009 Parents Declaration (Microsoft Word .doc file)

If you have any questions regarding the weekend please contact Shaun Christian or Simon Bown
Shaun: email: sdlchristian@aol.com Simon: email: bownm@sky.com
phone: 07881 501 675 phone: 07949 646468