News: Sailing & Racing
Cat Open Success
Report by Cat Fleet Captain Neil Klabe. The A class National Championship was held over the weekend (19th-20th September) at Weston Sailing Club. It was split into two groups: the Foilers and Classics. Day one on the Saturday was raced in very gusty and shifty conditions and saw our own hot shot Julian Bosch show […]
Training School Reopens
After two Saturdays of successfully running adult and youth coaching, the Training School has reopened offering a limited selection of courses from our published schedule. The first three day course, Advanced Youth Race Training, ran last week, with 6 keen young sailors determined to improve their racing skills. Coaches Matt and Mandy were really happy […]
Coaching Restarts
Photo: Sara Collard. On Saturday 11th July we restarted Saturday coaching. In the morning was the adult session, attended by 10 of the Saturday stalwarts. Here is Wendy’s report: Wow, it was fabulous to be out with our lovely coaches, Matt and Mandy again. We split into 2 groups of 5 to be socially distant. […]
Tower Dash Special
Wednesday 3rd June competition – if you accept the challenge. Use the round the Tower Dash rules for 2020 published today, the starting gate will be open all day but will close at 18h00. Please note the water closes at 18h30 and the Club site will shut at 19h00. You should apply social distancing rules […]
eSailing
Missing your racing fix? Then eSailing is the answer. Several Grafham fleets are now running eSailing races using Virtual Regatta. Click here to access the eSailing Guide. eSailing Schedule and Contacts eSailing is now in abeyance as real sailing has restarted. Look out for more eSailing in the autumn. Newly appointed eSailing fleet captain is […]
BUSA Qualifiers
On 1st-2nd February 2020 Grafham welcomed 15 teams of students from 7 universities across the area for the Midlands area Qualifiers for the British Universities Sailing Association (BUSA) team racing championships. This was hosted by Cambridge University, who are members of GWSC and was sailed in Fireflies. The event consists of 90 six-minute races between […]
39th Grafham Grand Prix
The 39th Grand Prix, sponsored by Sailing Chandlery, took place on Sunday 29 December. 197 boats entered, including an impressive 65 from Grafham. Racing was over three separate tracks, a fast and asymmetric fleet with 42 entries, including 10 catamarans; a medium fleet with 74 entries, and a slow fleet with 81 entries, including 5 […]
Autumn Series Prizegiving
The prize giving for the Autumn Series will take place after racing on Sunday 1st December. The winners are: Morning FF15 1st Flying Fifteen 3789 Allen Cave Ashley Painter 2nd Flying Fifteen 3794 Dave Philpott John Forsdike Laser 1st Laser 215157 David Summerville 2nd Laser 202072 Barrie Holden 3rd Laser 215416 Peter Gee 5th Laser […]
Catamaran Open 2019
The 2019 Grafham Cat Open took place over the weekend of 19th & 20th of October. For once the weather gods supplied us with a lovely bright day with a nice force 3-4 from the SW on the Saturday and slightly less wind on the Sunday but from a northerly direction which made the temperature […]
RS Inland Championships 2019
Photo © Tim Olin www.olinphoto.co.uk On Saturday 5th October Grafham Water Sailing Club welcomed 216 RS sailors for the very successful RS200, RS400 and RS800 Harken Inland Championships. Although racing wasn’t due to start until 1pm, many England rugby fans arrived by 8:45 to watch the England-Argentina world cup match. This was shown in both the cafe […]