Junior Winter Regatta 5/1/13
Saturday 5th January 2013. Lots of prizes, 3 fleets – handicap, topper and optimist. Briefing 10:30. Race 1 11am
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RS300 Inlands
Fifteen boats came to the start line for the RS300 Inland Championship 2012 held at Leigh & Lowton Sailing |Club on the weekend of 20th & 21st October. Despite the forecast for light winds, some of the visitors were well travelled from areas as distant as Portsmouth, Cheddar and Sunderland. For the gallery click on the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/104536170099821426208/RS300Inlands2102?authkey=Gv1sRgCM_Qy4CSgeDYRA Results
RYA Volvo West Zone Championships
Day 1 A dry and gusty day on Pennington Flash at Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club for the RYA Volvo West Zone Championships, average wind speed between 15 – 16 knots with gusts of 23-25 knots throughout the day, with the safety fleet kept busy with several capsizes throughout the day.
Club Race Officer Course 24/11/12
Henry Wright from the RYA will be running the RYA’s Club Race Officer course at the club on Saturday 24th November 2012, starting at 2.00pm prompt. (Approximate length of course 3 hours.) To register for attendance on this course, please contact Mike Baldwin on [email protected] . The course will be free to club members.
OOD & AOD Winter Duty Rota
LLSC 2012_13_WINTER ROTA The winter series is almost upon us. We rely on our experienced members to OD the biggest winter series in the country and you’ve been highlighted as either having experience, some skill or you’re just willing! Each member appears only once on the rota and will receive average points for the races you miss. The rota is attached. Peter Baldwin is ODing the Tipsy. Olive has offered to stand in as a 4th assistant when needed. If you can’t...
Winter Wednesday Workshops
As the evenings get darker and colder and we say goodbye to Wednesday night sailing, we know that there is nothing that you want more than to improve your sailing and learn more about the sport we love … off the water. That is why we have our programme of workshops running throughout the winter months. The workshops will take place on Wednesdays evenings 7.15 -9:15pm ish. The bar will be open. Apologies for an error in the newsletter – the...
NW Senior Travellers at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club
Leigh and Lowton Sailing Club hosted the penultimate round of this increasingly popular series on a stormy Tuesday 18th September. The over 50s who take part in this midweek series arrived at Leigh with white caps and driving rain in evidence.However the wind calmed down and the rain stopped and so everybody began to rig. 20 boats came to the start line for the first race, a slightly reduced entry from normal attributed to the gloomy forecast. However the race...
Club Newsletter – September 2012
Please see attached newsletter in PDF format. LLSC_Sept2012_Newsletter_web.pdf
National 12 Gill Series
A shifty westerly breeze greeted National 12 sailors at Pennington Flash over the bank holiday weekend for the Summer Event, which is part of the National Gill Series. In the first race it was business as usual for National Champions Graham Camm and Zoe Ballantyne who made the most of the shifts along the long first beat. They were closely followed by John Cheetham crewed by daughter Alison but as the gust came through during the race Steve and Joanne...
Leigh & Lowton 6 hour race
> Leigh & Lowton welcomed 30 sailors to its annual 6 hour race held on the August Bank Holiday Monday. A variable force 3-5 SE breeze gave the 11 competing boats plenty to think about around a 20 minute circuit. Once again it produced a nail-biting finish