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 The Chris Black Sprint 15 Icicle Winter Event at Grafham

(or Thrills and Spills at Grafham)

The Grafham Sprint 15 Icicle traveller event took place on 17 March in a force 4-6 Westerly wind which was the residue of Storm Gareth. Seven travellers joined 3 locals for an exciting days racing in which many practised their capsize drill.

Sunday 24th February saw the third Sprint 15 Winter 2018/19 TT take place at Rutland.  The previous TT took place in freezing conditions, under the threat of heavy snow fall and with strong gusty winds.  Three weeks later, the sun was out, the temperatures were well into double digits and the wind forecast was very light – so at least we still had one aspect of the weather to complain about.

Paul Grattage wins the Winter Series with a clean sheet at Thorpe Bay

Top four positions all had the same number of points in closely fought regatta at Draycote.

Twenty-three boats sailing in a decent breeze around Stewartby Water.  Paul Grattage won the event with three bullets.

2018/2019 winter offer on new boat sales from Windsport

28 Sprint 15s took part in the Inland Championships at the Grafham Cat Open which happily (after the storms of last year) took place on a sunny weekend in a force 2-3 light Southerly breeze. Marconi fielded a strong team of 9 boats, there were 4 boats from Grafham and both Shanklin and Thorpe Bay fielded teams of 3.

Thirty-nine Sprint 15 sailors gathered at the home of the North Devon Yacht Club at Instow on Friday the 14th September for the Sport Nationals – the two day regatta for single-handed Sprint 15 catamarans with main, jib and trapeze. This was the highest turnout in almost 10 years, with a record 8 youth sailors.

Best wind of the Summer TTs at Plymouth with Liam Thom, Ed Tuite Dalton and Jon Pearse on the podium after two days of close sailing.

Forecasts profesying no wind fail to put off 14 visitors and 9 locals for a regatta characterised by winds in many directions between 0 and 14 knots.