Junior Winter Regatta, Rescheduled for Saturday 5th March
The Junior winter regatta had to be postposted because of no wind on 16th January and has thus been rescheduled for Saturday 5th March. Don’t forget to enter via WebCollect
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Team Racing Competition
Budworth Sailing Club is re-introducing its two-boat team-racing competition and has invited LLSC to send a team to the event which will take place over the last weekend of November. The event will be open to 12 teams of four sailors with experienced on-water umpires. The entry fee is £180 per team which includes lunches and dinner on the Saturday evening. For full details see attached documents BudPairs invite 160111 Budworth Pairs 2016 NoR PDF
Sailing at LLSC The Final Reckoning
Competitive Finale to LLSC Revett Sailing Series Sunday 13th December saw the final two races of the six week long 2015 Revett winter sailing series. With the promise of a bit of breeze for the first time in 2 weeks the crews of the 45 boats that turned up expectantly were disappointed to find that once again the wind gods had been cruel and all we got was a light north easterly breeze for the first race which died off...
Ho Ho Ho. IOCA Optimist Training at LLSC
Nine optimist sailors braved the rain and cold at Leigh and Lowton sailing club for the second IOCA winter training session. Chris Barnes was the RYA qualified instructor. The North West IOCA training is both at West Kirby and Leigh and Lowton giving a combination of sea and lake sailing . Future Optimist Courses Next Session is on 23rd January. In terms of required standard to need to be able to launch and recover your boat, sail a triangular course. Near beginners through to...
LLSC Club Prizegiving – Harry Budd & Roger Taylor remembered
The LLSC prizegiving was no ordinary affair this year with 2 new trophies on display commemorating two of the founders of the combined Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club. Harry Budd and Roger Taylor were the main driving forces behind the merger of the separate clubs of Leigh Sailing Club and Lowton Sailing Club. It seems unbelievable now that these 2 clubs shared the same stretch of water with their clubhouses only a couple of hundred yards apart (with Manchester University playing...
Leigh and Lowton Sailors Had a Blast at the 1st Northern Feva Open Training Event
20 Sailors battled snow, ice, 40 knot winds and freezing temperatures at Yorkshire Dales sailing club at Grimwith Reservoir for the 1st Northern feva training weekend. The weekend started with great excitement and a briefing on teamwork and fitness from Head coach Dave Hivey. The sailors,including 4 youth sailors from Leigh and Lowton, were then put through the paces with a 5 mile run around the reservoir to warm up. After a hearty lunch, extra layers were put on and the...
Revett Series 2015 – Week 2 – Fruity!!
2015 Revett Open series at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club – Week 2 – Races 3 & 4 Another weekend and another ‘fresh to frightening’ forecast that kept the numbers down as this week only 26 boats dared to venture out for a blast (and a swim) around Pennington Flash. After the usual pre-sail chatter about the expected wind strength, and while watching the dark wind gusts from the south west fly out across the water at increasingly more regular...
2015 Revett Week 1
2015 Revett Open series at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club – Week 1 – Races 1 & 2 With weeklong forecasts of 20 to 40 knots of wind due for the first weekend of the 2015 Revett series at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club the turnout of 33 boats was lower than expected but sail we did and what fun we had. The competitors arrived on an un-seasonally mild morning to find a very manageable Force 3 blowing from the...
Lewis Coop picks up more trophies than he can carry at Guy Fawkes Pursuit
After Doomsday predictions from the weathermen, sailors arrived for the rescheduled (due to no wind) Guy Fawkes Pursuit race with a little trepidation; the weather clearly put a few off with only a lower than normal 25 turning out. Seeing 25-30 knots plus rain blowing through an hour before the start everyone expected a full-on day’s racing. But behind that squall there was a huge lull and the OOD Howard Green had to be on his toes to relay the course 3 times...
Northern Feva Open Meetings 2016
Organising Authority – UK RS Feva Class Association in conjunction with host yacht and sailing clubs has organized the following Northern open meeting during 2016:- 26, 27 & 28 March – Ullswater yacht club 11 June – Yorkshire Dales sailing club 9 & 10 July – Isle of Man yacht club 16 & 17 July – Filey sailing club The events are open to all RS Feva sailors and there will be prizes at each event depending on the...