Category “Dinghy Sailing”
420 Junior European Champions Crowned
A tense final day of racing at the 2011 420 Junior Europeans on Monday 15 August delivered another challenging track to navigate for the sailors, with light winds and strong current for the one race of the day. Up to three races could have been raced on the final day if conditions were more favourable, [...]
Entries Open For The 2011 Skandia Sail For Gold Regatta
Entries for the 2011 Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta are now open. To enter online or download the Notice of Race visit the event website here. Skandia Sail for Gold 2011 takes place between 5-11 June at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, the host venue for London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Competition. [...]
2010 RYA Volvo Zone & Home Country Championships entries open
Entries are now open online for the 2010 RYA Volvo Zone and Home Countries Championships with more than 1,000 young sailors and windsurfers set to descend on eight venues around the UK on the weekend of 25 – 26 September. Northern Ireland’s event will take place three weekends earlier this year on 4-5 September. [...]
Erika Reineke crowned the new Laser Radial World Youth Champion
After a highly charged day’s racing on the Clyde in some of the trickiest conditions of the week, Giovanni Coccoluto (ITL) and Erika Reineke (USA) have been crowned the new Laser Radial World Youth Champions. The upper reaches of the Clyde just to the north of Cumbrae, provided the perfect stage for the final two [...]
Day 3 of Laser Radial World Youth Champs
The wind arrived on the Clyde a little later than predicted today causing yet another long postponement, but thankfully a light south-westerly made its way up towards the race course area – just to the north of Cumbrae – by mid afternoon allowing two qualifying races to be held. Fully refreshed from yesterday’s opening [...]
Day 2 of Laser Radial World Youth Champs
After a day and a half sitting waiting for the wind, a steady, building northerly breeze trickled down the Clyde yesterday afternoon (21 July) allowing racing to commence at the Laser Radial World Youth Championship in Largs. The conditions were far from what the senior Radial fleet experienced at their world championship the previous [...]
Sarah Ayton & Saskia Clark put on an impressive show
Sarah Ayton and Saskia Clark are putting on an impressive show in their first World Championship together – and Ayton’s first in the 470 class. In spite of picking up a black flag penalty in the middle of the three races, the pair had an otherwise solid day with their disqualification sandwiched by two fourth [...]
Hamilton takes silver on the final day of 2010 ISAF Youth Worlds
Britain’s young guns are contemplating what could have been after Izzy Hamilton landed RYA Volvo Team GBR’s only medal at this year’s event picking up a second consecutive silver in the RS:X girls class on the final day of the 2010 Volvo Youth sailing ISAF World Championships today (16, July). With plenty of medal winning [...]
Sarah Ayton and Saskia Clark show promise in 470 Worlds
Sarah Ayton and Saskia Clark saw a solid day in the women’s fleet, advancing to fifth in their first World Championship since joining forces earlier this year. Ayton, the double Olympic gold medallist, and Clark picked up 3,8,6 from their three races and are pleased with the promise they’ve shown during this first major regatta [...]
Multala and Rudawski crowned Laser Radial World champions
It is never an especially satisfying way to win world titles, but with no racing on the final two days of the Laser Radial World Championships at Largs Finland’s Sari Multala and Poland’s Marcin Rudawski prevailed and were piped up on to the podium this evening as the 2010 world champions. Both sailors successfully defended [...]
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