redesmere topper open
TOPPER OPEN: 12th June 2004 @ Redesmere S.C. near Macclesfield Breifing 10:30, 11am 1st race
Current Announcements
Pressrelease: Dutch Rolex Commodores' Cup Team Selected
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Photographs of the Junior Bloody Mary
There are lots of photographs of the Junior Bloody Mary, on 7 Feb, on my website at http://www.fotoboat.com. Have look, and let me know what you think. What sort of sailing photos do you prefer?
Crew Wanted
crew needed nr sevenoaks to race 12 regularily both at club and circuit level.
Disney Channel wants young sailors
The other day I recived an e-mail from the Disney Channel about yound sailors for a new TV show called MADABOUT.... here is the e-mail they sent me...
Ardleigh Easter Traveller
Like last year we shared the water with Bytes. With a fair few of both turning up. As far as the weather is concerned, the rain thankfully held off and it turned out to be quite a hot and breezy day.
NSSA Oxford Championships (toppers)
As we turned up the wind looked to be fairly acceptable, about a force 3.
Stewartby Topper Open 17th May 2003
28 Toppers made it to the Topper Eastern Area Open at Stewartby sponsored by http://www.dbboatbits.com. For the most part the threatened rain stayed away and good solid breezes were the order of the day.
Chelmarsh Topper open
14 Boats arrived at chelmarsh for what looked like a reasonable days sailing.
Great Moor open
Great Moor Sailing Club hosted the second of the Eastern Area Travellers Series on Saturday 26th April. The event was well supported by 26 competitors. With all but three of the competitors under 15 the fleet is heavily dependent on parental support, which made it doubly pleasing
Splash Traveller Series - Hickling Broad 27th April 2003
Nineteen Splashes came to Hickling for the 2003 Travellers event. Weather conditions were excellent, with a dry cloudy day and wind that was steady at about force 4 gusting up to force 7.
Splash Traveller Series - Wroxham Broads - 20th April
This was the first event of 2003 in the UKSCA Traveller Series, and was held at Wroxham Broad under the auspices of the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club.
New Class Forums
We have now got class forums avalible for you to to use, it has some quite good qualities which include: Notification by e-mail if you have a riply to your post, emotions and quite a bit more. You will find forums on the main menu.
2003 Youth Championships and Trials
The Notice of Race and Entry Form for the 2003 RYA Youth Championships and Trials to be held at Hayling Island between the 12th and 18th April 2003, are now available. This event is open to any dinghy sailor or windsurfer under 19 who sails one of the RYA recognised Youth Classes
How to get involved in the Volvo RYA Keelboat Sailing Programme
The programme will provide training, coaching and grants to a small but select number of young sailors who in turn will feed into future British keelboat projects such as the Volvo Ocean Race, Europrix, Admirals and Commodores Cups, and the Americas Cup.
Qualification age changed for Junior Bloody Mary 2003
Due to popular demand and our recent realisation that having set the age date for the Junior Bloody Mary in line with the International definition on Junior this did not coincide with either the RYA Zone Squad ages or the RYA National Squad ages (which are themselves different) f
Mirror Worlds 2003
Ireland took the top two spots. First was Christopher Clayson and Craig Martin followed by Andrew Woodward and James Bendon. Top UK sailors were Jonathon McGovern/Nicola Brook with Stuart Bithell/Holly Scott in 6th and 7th spots. Full reports and results can be found at http://ww
Volvo/RYA Keelboat sailing
Aged 16-24? Fancy doing moving into a keelboat after your junior or youth dinghy? Looks like the all-new Volvo RYA Keelboat Sailing Programme for 2003 could give you that all important start ...
Junior Bloody Mary 8th February 2003
Correction - You need to enter by the enter by Wednesday 5th Feb! Download the Bloody Mary Notice of Race (PDF Format) to enter.
Optimist Sailing wins YJA Yound Sailor
The 2002 Young Sailor of the Year award goes to a 14-year-old Optmist Sailor Hannah Mills. Ben Ainsle takes the 2002 YJA Yachtsman of the Year award for an astonishing third time...
The Boat Show - 2-12 January 2003
Should be plenty to interest dingy sailors with Rooster, Topper, Laser, LDC Pinnell & Bax, Purple Marine, all the major clothing manufacturers plus the chance to ogle at the yachts.
Splash the Girls Youth Boat in 2004
The splash class has been slected as the girls youth boat at the ISAF Youth World Championships 2004. Other classes that will be taking part are...
RYA Advanced Sailing Handbook
A must for every dinghy, small keelboat and multihull sailor - TO BE LAUNCHED AT THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW 2003.
Topper 2003 Nationals Accomadation List
Download the 2003 Topper accomadation list (Sunderland) Acrobat Reader Required. (PDF Format) Download the Accomadation List
The South East Topper Zone Squad at the week end
The South East Topper Zone Squad, plus some guests had an extra weekends training with Dave Cockerill and Paul Lewis.
South East Toppers Web Site
Why not take a look South East Toppers Website. It contains links to clubs in London and Kent as well Christmas Presents ideas from Rooster and the Notice of Race for the Bloody Mary.
London and Kent Toppers 2002 At Island Barn
Despite a murky, almost windless day over a dozen Toppers and four 29ers took to the water at Island Barn on Sunday 17th November.
Island barn winter series 24th november
For the second week in a row the sailors that turned up for the island barn winter series on sunday were greeted with literally no wind no sunshine.
Volvo Sail into New Waters
After an extremely successful five-year partnership developing the highly respected Volvo RYA Youth Programme, Volvo will be launching a new sailing partnership with the RYA for 2003 and onwards which will benefit different areas of UK sailing.
East Zone Topper training at Wroxham Broad
As the topper east zone squad started its first training weekend the winds were a lot lower than forecast. After our briefing and welcome we set out onto the water (whilst our parents set of to the famous Roys of Wroxham) for some short sharp windward -leeward races and a lot of
RYA Catamaran Development Squad
One of the most difficult decisions young sailors have to face is in deciding what class to move to after sailing Optimists, Toppers Cadets or Mirrors, or even earlier in their sailing careers. The RYA Cat Programme...
Olympic Sailing on BBC Grandstand this weekend
The October edition of the British Olympic Associations Olympic Dreams programme will be broadcast on Sunday 27 October on BBC 2 at 3pm.
Datchet Topper Open 2002
Waite, third Louis McVeigh and fourth Andy Fielder all three of whom are members of the RYA National squad.
2002/3 Transitional Youth Squad Members
Following two open selection training camps at Grafham Water the 2002/3 Transitional Youth Squad has been selected. All the sailors were given training by teams headed up by the RYA National Squad class coaches and were selected by these teams...
Toppers at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club
Historical Juniorsail article.
Bored why not try this sailing game?
On BBC Sports hidden away you will find a sailing game. It's fun to while away a few minutes. Click on sailing game to go directly there.
Alison Young wins RYA Ladies National Championship held at Grafham
Alison Young wins RYA Ladies National Championship held at Grafham at the weekend with 4 straight wins out of 5 races. Winds force 4 to 5. Alison also won the single handed trophy.
GUL Topper South West Area Championships Chew Valley Lake 7th/8th Sept.
A massive 125 competitors from as far away as Scotland, Guernsey and Kent found Chew at its sparkling best. Bright sunshine and a brisk F 3-4 breeze.
Campbell Davidson New Topper World Champion
After a tough week in Holland Campbell Davidson has come out on top at the Topper Worlds. He ddidn't have quite as good Nationals as he would have hoped but I'm sure his performance at the worlds has made up for this. We are yet waiting for a full report from the event soon. List
Day 3 Topper World Chapionships - Workum
After day 3 of the topper worlds in Workum the results have changed dramatically with many foreign boats slipping the rankings and GBR boats takin there places. The top 30 places are all British boats. There are also boats from United Arab Emerates, Germany, Holland and France co
Topper World Championships - Workum in Holland
The Topper World Championships commenced this weekend in Workum in Holland. We have heard that 132 are compeiting in the championships. They will be racing in one fleet all week in Holland. We have yet to hear of any detailed results but we do have the top 5....
Simon Kearns 2002 Topper National Champion
Entries for Topper nationals have been on the increase for a few years now. A record 218 boats entered the 2002 Nationals at Downs Sailing Club on the 4-9th August. The event was generously supported by Lipscomb Volvo Centre and Crewsaver.
Simon Kearns 2002 Topper National Champion
This year Simon Kearns came back to topper class, for the nationals, trying out the new centre mained boat. For full results click here Results
Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship: Race Report - Final Day
The final day of racing at the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship concluded with Canadian sailors in top spots and a best-ever Canadian team finish.
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Wet and Windy Record Attempt
A French lady (Raphaela Le Gouvello) windsurfer set off from Tunisia in 25 knots of wind, hoping to do 8 hours flat over 50 miles, on her first leg.
Not Sinking In Waves
Steve Dunn an RS200 RYA Class Coach talks about sailing an RS200 in waves. Much of the advice applies to other classes. Read on for the full story...
Hunts Open
On the 8th June 2002 Hunts Sailing Club hosted their annual open meeting for Mirrors and Toppers. With some sunshine and little wind 8 Mirrors and 18 Toppers ventured out for the start of race 1.
Stewartby Open
Photos available at Gallery
Toppers At Leigh-on-Sea
11 Toppers turned up today for an interesting open meeting at the coastal venue of Leigh-on-Sea. They were greeted with very light and shifty conditions for most of the day with some stronger gusts passing through every now and then.
Looking At Wind Stratergy
Have you ever wondered why someone ends up coming out in front of you after a long beat and it just doesn't seem possible. Well we have put togethor a short article about wind stratergy. Then you can end up coming out ahead at the windward mark.
Ian Pickard & Steve Dunn look at tuning your RS 200
This tuning guide is a based upon the settings of Steve Dunn and Ian Pickard, you will notice a range of settings and various ways of driving the boat. Also the large weight range of both teams, both teams are competitive in all wind conditions showing that the rig can be control
Great Moor Topper Open
Photos now available in thegallery 27 Toppers took part in what turned out to be a windy and exciting day.
Laser Rule Changes
As you may know, the International Laser Class Association (ILCA) changed the laser/radial/4.7 class rules in October 2001.
Steve Dunn Looks at Championship and Race Preperation
Steve Dunn an RS200 RYA Class Coach gives invaluable advice on how to prepare for a championship for any class.....
Toppers at Draycote
The day started as a light sunny day, with around 40 toppers.
Island Barn Topper 2002
It was a glorious spring day (see our photos in the gallery) for everyone travelling to the Topper Nationwide Open at Island Barn. This was the first Topper event of the season and an opportunity for the aspirants of 2002 to try out the results of their intense winter training on
Win a HOLT poster signed by Hugh Styles
Win a HOT international 14 poster signed by Hugh Styles who sails the GBR Tornado....
George wins Blue Peter's America's Cup comp
Earlier in the year Blue Peter launched a competition to name the GBR America's Cup Yacht. They received 18,940 entries for the competition.
Fun events for juniors sections
We are building our junior section for 2002 and would like to run some fun events to cover all skill levels have you any ideas? Andy Mitchell
Sailboat and Windsurf Show 2002
See were the Junior classes boats are just look in Junior Classes
Calibrating Your Topper
Calibration is one of the rules to being organised on and off the water. See Calibration in our Topper section
Topper RYA Eastern area zone squad (day 2)
One or two more boats arrived prior to the previous day for the days training. From the start the wind looked more sailable compared to Saturday it was roundabout force 2.
Topper RYA Eastern area zone squad (day 1)
Around 20 boats arrived at Grafham Water for the Eastern Area training sponsored by Volvo.