Junior 12 Hour Race, Southport Marine Lake, 29th June 2013 Sailed in a Force 2-3 breeze with Force 4 gusts this year, Leigh and Lowton’s juniors performed brilliantly to take 5th place out of 29 boats.
It has been bought to the committees attention that recently there have been several incidents of theft from boats and items on trailers while unattended in the dinghy park. All incidents have been reported to the police. This is a reminder to all members and visitors that all equipment left in/on boats and in/on trailers may not be covered by your respective insurance policy. The club grounds and premises are used by several different organisations at different times of the...
The two day Miracle Northern Championships held at Delph Sailing Club near Bolton saw a return to form of Wayne Atherton sailing in a new partnership with experienced Miracle crew Angela Sweeney. The pair managed to win the event by sailing just the three races on the Sunday of the two-day event. Read the full article on Y&Y http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/169439/Miracle-Northerns-at-Delph
There were 28 boats in total in the three fleets which sailed at Pennington Flash on Saturday. The sailing was close across all fleets with the results of the Handicap fleet being decided on discards. In the end it was Sam Platt from Bolton in his Topper who took the top spot with the Feva of Hannah Bristow and Bobby Hewitt from LLSC a close second place. Dan Budden from LLSC was third, also in a Topper. In the Oppies,...
ENTER ONLINE HERE > Saturday 18th May is the date for the Leigh and Lowton event for the North West Junior Traveller Trophy. Open to all helms and crews under 19 on the 31st August 2013, full details of the Notice of Race can be found on the attachment. We are trialling our new on-line entry system for this event and you can access this by following the link below. Entries made before the 16th May using this system will be...
Leigh & Lowton youth member Andy Green finished 3rd overall at the 2013 RYA Youth Nationals at Largs Sailing Club. See Y&Y article for more information Image Credit Marc Turner Prizegiving winnes
Paul Plested’s RS400 Pics & RS200 Pics. Mike Baldwins Pics. Results What a great weekend we have all had at the open meetings. Light and testing winds both Saturday and Sunday. 16 RS200’s and 15 RS400’s competed, from all over the country. Furthest travelled was Russell and June Collister from the Isle of Man and James and Anne Gardner form Hayling Island. Entries also from Notts County and Scaling Dam. Thanks to everyone for making the effort to come along. The sailing finished after the...
Most of the Topper fleet sailing in the Winter series braved the weather and the journey to Weymouth last weekend. With 7 sailors finishing in the top 31 in a fleet of 153. Lucy Mearns and Steph Wingeatte put up a good fight finishing 31 st and 51st respective. Daniel Budden and James Grummit finishing in the top 30 . Oliver Blackburn took the prize for first under 14 boy and 18th overall. Nick Deveraux a well deserved 10 th...
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South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club (SCYC) – 2013 end of year report A tough economic climate and some pretty terrible weather – surely the ingredients for a year of troubles for a Yacht Club? You’d have thought so – but SCYC is managing to buck the trends. Established fleets have continued to do well and new ones are growing such as the Dragons and the Dinghies. They’ve got a record number of members, a Squib fleet to die for and 3...