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

Please note the Parent Declaration form corrupts when downloaded from the club website.  This form can be completed at registration on the Saturday morning of the Nationals, if you need it in advance please email me and I will send you a copy.

New Laser Race Mainsail with sail numbers £150 (RRP £295) are available to those entering the Pico Nationals. Please email me for further details.

This offer is open to all competitors sailing at the Nationals, including visitors.

Regards

Shaun  : sdlchristian@aol.com

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. Do not worry if you have not done much racing in the past, the briefing on Saturday morning will cover all the detail you need to know.

Pico’s can be sailed either single or doubled handed and parents are welcome to sail in the event. Please see attchments for the Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions, Entry Form and Parent Declaration.

Win a New Pico – If you sail in all 6 races over the two-day event your Pico will be entered into a special prize raffle to part-exchange with a new Pico. It does not matter if you are at the front, middle or back of the fleet, all will have an equal chance to win the new Pico. The draw will take place during the prize giving on Sunday afternoon. The winners must be present to collect the Pico.

We have lots of other great prizes and trophies also lined up to recognise the best in Pico racing. If you sail a Pico this is a weekend you will not want to miss.

Car Parking

TBYC has ample free car parking and boat storage facilities in the field to the east of the main dinghy park. On arrival you will be given a TBYC car sticker that must be displayed in your front screen in order to get free car parking.

Accommodation

TBYC is just a mile along the coast from Southend-On-Sea so has a good selection of hotels and B&B’s. We have listed details of a few local places that are a short distance from the clubhouse.

www.roslinhotel.com

www.beachesguesthouse.co.uk

www.premierinn.com - search for their Thorpe Bay Hotel

Camping is also available at TBYC and if required please contact us. The clubhouse, toilet & shower facilities and club restaurant will open from the Friday to Sunday, with a BBQ after sailing on Saturday. All this making your stay comfortable and affordable.

Southend-on- Sea has lots of attractions making this a great weekend for the whole family. So even if hurricane winds blow out sailing there is plenty to do, including a walk down the worlds longest pleasure pier or perhaps try a visit to;

Adventure Island (http://www.adventureisland.co.uk/)

The Sea Life Centre (http://www.sealifeadventure.co.uk/)

Ten Pin Bowling at the Kursaal (www.thekursaal.co.uk)

Odeon Cinema Complex (http://www.odeon.co.uk/)

Plus all the other usual seaside attractions

We look forward to seeing you at the Nationals for a great weekend of family fun and sailing.

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

Catering facilities and the bar are open to all  – please join in and add to the party atmosphere.  All help and offers of  assistance to provide full safety cover and aid launch and recovery of boats will be very appreciated (the urn will be on the bosuns hut so help yourself to a cup of tea/coffe or to keep you going).

For food in the evenings you can pre-book as follows:

Friday 22^nd May – Basket meals avail  7-9pm

Saturday 23^rd May – BBQ 7-9pm – if not Nat 12 participant, pre-order from Jo

Sunday 24th May – Basket meals avail  7-9pm – Fancy dress competition – theme is linked to boat names or design names listings avail http://www.national12.org/boats/index.php.

Larry and the Streamers Live ‘Sounds of the Sixties’ 8.15-10.30 pm

Full menu details available on notice board – sorry I can’t seem create a link to the doc

Good luck to all sailors and  hope you have lots of fun and most of all we have favourable weather.

Theresa