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Feva Sailing Lessons for Two in a Boat

Feva Sailing Lessons on Friday Night Junior Training Friday nights junior training night at Leigh and Lowton sailing club is one of the clubs most industrious evenings (apart from committee meetings of course.) Lots of juniors and youths listen to more knowledgeable instructors sailing tips and then sometimes go and do something completely different. The RS Feva and other junior sailing lessons are run by senior instructor/manager Laura Barnes. She has gained a great deal of respect from the children this...

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Adult Learn to Sail and Improvers Courses

We have just 3 places left on the Adult Learn to Sail course, beginning 2nd July. Sign up HERE Due to demand we’re running a further Adult Improver course on 3 Saturdays in July. Sign up HERE for free. It’s the Solo Northerns next weekend, which is a Flash Closure. Sign up HERE and don’t forget it’s the Regatta Weekend on 9th 10th July, which is free to club members.    

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The Open Regatta Weekend 2016

The Open Regatta Weekend Incorporating Miracle Midlands & Optimist NW Area Championships 9th-10th July 2016 A full weekend of Sailing, fun & entertainment – not to be missed! First warning signal 11:57am Saturday, 10.57 Sunday Competitor Briefing 11:00am Saturday, 10.00am Sunday   Fleet assignment (dependent on entry Numbers) Asymmetric Fleet, Laser Fleet, Handicap Fleet, Miracle Fleet Junior Fleet (inc Optimist NW Area Champs/Optimist Open) Coaching from the back for novices whilst racing BBQ Meal Available Camping on Site Boat Jumble...

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Spring Camp 2016

During week commencing the 31st May LLSC hosted more Topper and Optimist High Performance training which is reported on Yachts and Yachting at http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/190007/RYA-High-Performance-Club-training Of equal importance to the club was our ever popular spring camp for club youngsters.   This is a three day event where we have experienced coaches working with youngsters of various abilities from absolute beginners to the more accomplished racers.   Blessed with sunshine and fair winds lead coaches Howard Green and Dave Eccles ably...

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Wednesday Buddy Teams

The 4 “episode” Wednesday night Buddy series starts next week (15th June), and the teams have been picked and named based on TV shows. Remember it’s the combined series score of 3 of the team members, so if you don’t want to emulate “Dastardly and Muttley” you’ll have to team up and share some useful tips. Camberwick Green– Led by our very own Mr Green Howard Green (Laser 198575) Chris Helsby (Solo 5350) Dave Lowe (Laser Radial 41372) Stuart Van...

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LLSC Firsts at Bolton Junior Travellers

LLSC Feva LLSC’s Madeleine Bristow and Lelia Peckham sailed their RS Feva XL to victory at the Bolton NW junior travellers on Sunday. LLSC members may have noticed and indeed heard Graham Bristow coaching daughter number three and crew over the last 12 months at Pennington Flash. He can’t have had too much confidence in his coaching ability as he never taught Madeleine how to make a winners speech! She was literally ‘speechless’ when the occasion arose. She quickly took...

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Wednesday Night B “Buddy” Series

The Wednesday night “B” series runs for 4 weeks 15th June, 22 June, 29th June and 6th July, with 2 of the 4 races to count. In addition to the normal individual results, there will be team results, as a bit of fun. Each team will be 3 boats of mixed ability, the idea being that the better sailors provide some informal coaching to their team mates. A Team’s score will be the total of each boat’s best 2 results,...

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Learn to Sail at Leigh & Lowton

If you were at the ‘Push The Boat Out’ event on May 14th and didn’t get a chance to watch the video about our Friday evening junior training programme well here’s another chance to catch it. Once again a big ‘Thank You’ to all those who attended to help out and to our visitors for keeping us very busy. We trust you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did.