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Minutes of 2026 AGM

Date: Saturday 27 June 2026 at 10.00 hours

Venue: Stone SC

This was Draycote Water’s second Dart 15 TT event this year and we welcomed 14 sailors, 5 local boats and 9 visitors.

Conditions were warm and dry, but with light winds and a forecast of 6 knots.

Race Officer Pete Slater and Richard Cowell briefed us all and they set a trapezoidal course, with 4 races back to back.

What a scorcher of an event!   The 2026 Dart 15 Nationals were held at Stone Sailing Club on the beautiful River Blackwater in Essex last weekend.  Forty-two entrants arrived to the type of hot weather and warm water that you would expect in the Mediterranean but without the hassle of flying.

Friday was the hottest day of the weekend with temperatures in mid to high 30s for much of the day.   At the briefing, Stone Sailing Secretary, Phil Longley, welcomed the fleet and Events Secretary, Jenny Ball, outlined the schedule for the weekend.  Race Officer, Neil Fulcher, outlined the racing plan for the day which was to keep the sailors ashore until he had a race course set with a reasonably settled wind direction to avoid sailors drifting around on the water in the heat.

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.