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NOTICE OF RACE
Cardiff Open Flying Fifteen Regatta
20th and 21st June 2009
VENUE and DATES
The Cardiff Flying Fifteen Open will be held at the Cardiff Bay Yacht Club, Cardiff on the 20th & 21st June 2009.
ORGANISING AUTHORITY
The organising authority is the Cardiff Bay Yacht Club
RULES
The event shall be governed by the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing 2009 the prescriptions of the RYA, the International Flying Fifteen Class Rules and this Notice of Race, except as modified by the Sailing Instructions and any amendment thereto. The advertising category is according to Class Rules.
ENTRIES
Entries will be accepted at registration or in advance by sending a completed entry form and remittance to:
Ian Horton
19 Douglas Close
Danescourt
Cardiff CF5 2QT
Tel: 07967 467031/ 02920 560540
ENTRY FEE
The entry fee will be £20.
REGISTRATION
Registration will be from 10am on Saturday 20th June at the Cardiff Bay Yacht Club. Sailing Instructions will be available at Registration.
SCHEDULE
Saturday 20th June
Briefing
12:30
Race 1
13:30
Race 2
back to back
Short break
Race 3
16:00
Race 4
back to back
Sunday 3rd June
Race 5
10:00
Race 6
back to back
Prize giving
14:00
There is a winch system for launching at the slipway
SCORING SYSTEM
The low points scoring system of the RRS Appendix A will apply
There will be 1 discard if 3 or more races are sailed
PRIZES
Prizes will be given as follows:
Classic Fleet Sail Numbers up to 2700 1st, 2nd and 3rd Overall
Silver boats 1st if 3 or more sailed
Gold boats 1st if 3 or more sailed
CATERING
There will be a meal option for everyone on the Saturday night, details at registration. Bar meals and snacks are readily available at the Cardiff Bay Yacht Club. If you would like to book Sunday lunch or evening meals please call the bar on 02920 226575.
ACCOMMODATION
Camper vans are allowed in the club car park please ask the office or site staff where to park on arrival, generally this will be through th gate turn right and down the end.
Showers/ toilets available 24 hours with visitor’s card.
You can arrange accommodation through the local tourist offices at Penarth (02920 708849), or Cardiff (02920 227281), or look on the web http://www.visitcardiff.com/Accommodation-in-Cardiff.html
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
The Race Organisers shall not be liable for any loss, damage, death or personal injury howsoever caused to the owner/competitor, his skipper or crew as a result of their taking part in the race or races. Moreover every competitor warrants the suitability of his boat for the race or races. A boat is entirely responsible for its own safety, whether afloat or ashore, and nothing, whether in the Notice of Race or Sailing Instructions or anywhere else, reduces this responsibility. It is for the boat to decide whether it is fit to sail in the conditions in which it will find itself. By launching or going to sea, the boat confirms that it is fit for those conditions and that its crew is competent to sail and compete in them. The boat is required to hold adequate insurance and in particular to hold insurance against third party claims in the sum of at least £2m.
Nothing done by the organisers can reduce the responsibility of the boat nor will it make the organisers responsible for any loss, damage, death or personal injury, however it may have occurred, as a result of the boat taking part in the racing.
The provision of patrol boats does not relieve the boat of its responsibilities.
Flying 15 Inland Championships Grafham Water 2009. Click here for results
The British Isles Flying 15 Inland Championship was held at Grafham Water on the weekend of the 18th/19th April in gloriously sunny and breezy conditions. The Flying Fifteen Association was most grateful to the Grafham Club for agreeing to host the event at short notice when the pre-arranged venue became unavailable. The Race Officer Tom Smith provided first class race management using Olympic courses over the weekend.
Forty six boats entered the event from all over the UK, an excellent turnout for an event taking place in a non-qualifying year for the World Championship.
An impetuous fleet lined up for race one and almost inevitably a recall was necessary. The black flag was exhibited thereafter and the fleet were underway at the second attempt. The breeze remained fairly steady at around 20 knots but there were shifts enough to play and those who played them well gained substantially. Jeremy Davy and Simon Childs were first at the windward mark with a comfortable lead although by the next round it was a lot less comfortable with Steve Goacher and Phil Evans on their transom. Goacher and Evans duly powered through and went on to win by some margin. This outcome became something of a pattern as the weekend went on although race three produced a well deserved win for Mike Hart and Richard Rigg.
After three energetic races on Saturday some were hoping for an easier ride on the Sunday, the breeze stayed a northerly force 3-4, rather less gusty than the Saturday. Although the leading pack in both races tended to pull clear, there was very close racing in the main fleet with the somewhat inevitable ‘events’ at mark roundings. The three boat length rule was, perhaps, not yet familiar with some competitors!
Overall, this was a very enjoyable weekend’s racing. Steve Goacher and Phil Evans won four of the five races to win the Inland Championship for the third year in succession.
The event was sponsored by easy-Jet who generously donated two return tickets to anywhere on easyJet’s network of over 80 destinations and they were won in a draw by Richard Ledger, the Flying Fifteen website editor.
Simon Kneller
Please see the attached account of my charity cycle from Inverness to Petersfield
I am raising money for Community Sailing if any one would like to pledge some money it’s not too late
Please email vice.president@flying15.org.uk and I will send over the necessary form
I would like to thank everyone who has already given some monies.
Sue
Vice President
The untimely death of Richard Estaugh on the 11th April has been announced in most of the yachting press and news. Richard (head of Speed Sails, multiple dinghy National and World Champion, including two Endeavour Trophy wins) has campaigned a Flying Fifteen in the past and I’m sure that all our members join us in expressing our condolences to Richard’s family, friends & colleagues.
Speed Sails have issued a statement on their website and details of the funeral arrangements will follow. Richard’s family have requested that flowers are not sent, but hope that people will make a donation to either sail4cancer or the RNLI in accordance with Richard’s wishes.
Grafham Easter Salver April 12-13
The annual Easter Salver event took place over Sunday and Monday of the Easter weekend. Twelve Grafham boats and three visitors took part. There was some excellent racing with place changes, protests, penalty turns and retirements.
An Olympic course was used for Sunday’s racing in a pleasant force 2-3. In the first race Simon Kneller and Dave Lucas won in a brand new boat with Justin Waples and Ian Stowe second and Mark Longstaff and Graham Wadeley third. Peter Waghorn and Pip Noon sustained sufficient damage to retire for repairs: they reappeared for the later races.
The second race saw Kneller and Lucas lead but a tack too close to Waples and Stowe and penalty turns put them behind : Waples went on to win with Waghorn and Noon in the hastily repaired boat second and Les Rant and Susie Sontag were third after a protest.
Race three was held in a dying breeze. Waples and Stowe were forced to tack off early but that delivered them into a new breeze from the right which took them into the lead which they maintained. Waghorn and Noon were second with Kneller and Lucas third.
There was no wind on Monday so racing was abandoned, leaving Waples and Stowe the winners. The salver, itself, was awarded to Peter Waghorn and Pip Noon as only Grafham members are eligible for this prize.
Simon Kneller
Change in the Flying Fifteen: potential new rig tested
A review of the Flying Fifteen Class by the Technical Committee of the Association recommended changing the rig towards a higher aspect ratio genoa with a shorter foot and a mainsail with a bigger roach and shorter foot. The brief for this development was to improve boat handling, gust responsiveness and to maintain boat speed performance; there should be no increase in the overall sail area of the mainsail and genoa. Such changes would allow the boat to retain its excellent performance but make it more appealing to a broader range of sailors, particularly of lighter weight at Club and Championship level. After some preliminary trials during the recent World Championships in Australia, Flying Fifteen International asked the British Association to pursue the matter.
The first formal trial weekend was very efficiently organized over the weekend of 4th and 5th of April by the Datchet Water fifteen fleet led by Fleet Captain Phil Tinsley.
Eight boats took part. Four retained the conventional rig and four were equipped with new rigs from Batt Sails, Pinnell and Bax and Goacher Sails (Mark 1&2). The jibs were all in Dacron as was the Batt mainsail which also featured a full length foot. The Bax and Goacher mainsails were constructed of Mylar and had a shorter foot than the conventional rig with the upper batten full length. No change was made to the mast or any other fitting in the boat.
Three boats also had a new and larger spinnaker to test which was larger, had fuller shoulders and used a longer pole.
The crews, of combined weight varying from 21 to 31 stones, raced each other over short courses and changed between the boats during the weekend providing a continuous comparison between old and new. The wind ranged from very light to a steady 10 knots with gusts up to 18. Participating were three World and National Champions and helmsmen from the upper part of the National fleet.
In the stronger winds the new spinnaker was found by some to be too big. Any change is likely to be in the shape rather than the area. The jib and mainsail, on the other hand, performed well. In particular, the gust response was good and no performance was lost. These initial designs will be modified into a further set of trial sails which will be distributed widely for additional evaluation nationally and internationally. If the objectives of the development are met the class will seek ratification for use in 2011.
Report from Adrian Tattersall, President British Isles Flying Fifteen Association
Please note that the Inland Championships has moved from Draycote Water SC on the 25th and 26th April to Grafham Water SC on the 18th and 19th of April.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused and that this is the last weekend of the Easter school holidays but this is due to events beyond our control.
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