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Minutes of 2025 AGM
Date: Friday 11 July 2025 at 6pm
Venue: Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club – Dinghy Section

2026 Class Association AGM Agenda. In accordance with Section 6 of the Association Class Rules, herewith the meeting agenda is published. All members are cordially invited to attend.

2026 Class Association AGM
Friday 26 June 5.30 pm
at
Stone Sailing Club
Agenda

Herewith the notification of the 2026 AGM.
In accordance with the Constitution of the UK Dart 15 Class Association, the 2026 AGM will take place at Stone SC on Friday 26 June at 5.30pm in the clubhouse. Note that this timing is subject to modification and is dependent on the day due to the sailing schedule of the first day of the National Championships being held at the same venue. But it will be on the aforementioned date and not before the aforementioned time.

The second Summer TT of 2026 brought the Dart 15 fleet to the Thames Estuary, where Thorpe Bay Yacht Club hosted twenty-three travellers and home sailors for a weekend of properly mixed Estuary conditions, two countback finishes that came down to the last race, and one of the more memorable abandoned races in recent fleet history.

The forecast promised a decent breeze on the Saturday and lighter air on the Sunday. What the forecast couldn't show was the shifts. Race Officer Chris Boshier, assisted by Chris Tillyer, would later report a wind range of 6 to 22 knots on the Saturday with shifts of up to 90 degrees across the day and 30-degree shifts under every passing cloud. Sunday would bring 15 knots dropping to nothing, swinging through 45 degrees. The mark layers were going to earn their keep.

The two home boats of George Love and Ray Gall were joined by a band of thirteen travellers from all points of the country to compete in the first summer TT of the 2026 season and for the title of Northern Champion. The picturesque setting of Carsington on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District also hosted a fleet of twelve Dart 18s and five Catapults to share the event which each fleet having a separate start.

The final TT event of the Winter Series was held at Grafham on Sunday the 8th March. Uncharacteristically, we managed to race five events in a row this winter without any postponements or rescheduling due to poor weather and all in light winds.  This made organisation much easier for the new Winter Series coordinator. The overall winner had been decided at the previous event at Datchet, but 2nd, 3rd and 4th places were all still to play for.

The Dart 15 fleet returned once again to Datchet for this, their fourth Winter TT of the season.    After a prolonged spell of grey, cold and wet weather, thirteen competitors arrived to mild and finally dry conditions.   Winds were very light to start with but were forecast to build during the day.  Aside from the weather, other talk over boat rigging was about the three competitors who had “upgraded” to newer boats and were trying them out for the first time today.  Two of these boats have been given somewhat interesting names already by their new owners (both boats were previously un-named so no bad luck hopefully).  So it was that “Hot Rats” and “Nice Pair” had their maiden voyages.

For the third event of the Dart 15 winter series, the first of 2026, the day started sunny and frosty but with a bleak wind of around 3 knots when people turned up and started to get boats ready.

Special mention for the travellers from Shanklin and Marconi who made this event a 3-way club battle. It is quite an effort for all the travellers.