Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club

Entries for this year’s regatta (Yachts 24th / 25th July with Dinghies 28th July – 1st August) are starting to come through with 7 Enterprises already entered & guaranteed a class start. Last year RPCYC had the highest number of dinghies entered in the Regatta so let’s make sure it happens again. Numbers of Lasers entered are low at the moment as are the Asymmetric dinghies. Today is the last day you can get a discount on your entry (which you can do online at http://www.plymouthregatta.co.uk/).

The Port of Plymouth Regatta offers fantastic value for money & some first class racing between all the clubs of Plymouth along with people from outside the port. It is THE PLYMOUTH  REGATTA  – SO PLEASE SUPPORT IT

Results can be found here. Updated 2010-07-01

Apologies from Jon who’s stranded behind a locked down laptop, which goes with a few technical issues last week in getting the results posted.

The Plymouth to St Marys race (part of the POP’s Series) will be held on Thursday 15^th July with the first start signal at 17:55. Below are some useful web site links which will provide valuable information on the Isles of Scilly.

The Harbourmaster has advised that we cannot reserve moorings in advance, however he feels sure that we can be accommodated with rafting up on moorings possible in all but strong North Westerly conditions. There are a number of safe anchorages available if there is a shortage of available moorings.

Please be aware that it will be necessary for yachts to take their own finish times & contact the race officer  or RPCYC of their respective times  or retirement from the race (please refer to the races SI’s for further details) .

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http://www.stmarys-harbour.co.uk/

http://www.harbourguides.com/harbours.php/Isles_of_Scilly

http://www.scillyonline.co.uk/

Online Race Entry Form

PayPal Payments

Wednesday 23rd June sees the first race of the Wednesday Evening Summer Series.

The first race will be a committee boat start so please gve yourself some extra time to get to the committee boat.

Lets hope for some favourable winds for the Summer Series

Close action at the start for the Asymmetric , Laser & Fast handicap fleets

Tonights racing at least started in a reasonable wind with a southerly sea breeze as opposed to the forcasted NNE 14 mph gusting 24 mph winds. The first lap of the course had close racing amongst the various fleets which saw 33 dinghies racing in the sound. As the second lap progressed the sea breeze disappeared as it so often does leaving many struggling to get the better of the strong incoming spring tide.

Enterprise & Slow Handicap fleets jostling for prime positions before the start

For more photos of tonights racing (courtesy of Nikki Buckler) please click on the below link

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/JONIK22500/RPCYCSpringSeries160610?feat=directlink

Tonights results can be found here along with series to date results here

On behalf of all the dinghy sailors I would like to thank all the line crew along with all the safety boat crews from Plymouth Youth Sailing & RPCYC for your support & help to run the racing.

After the disappointment of last weeks cancelled race at least we had some wind to race in this week. The wind decided to play tricks at the start when it came from opposite directions and where it met left a huge hole in the wind (yes that was the start line !!). Despite that the wind decided to play and there was enough wind for at least two laps before it decided to die altogether leaving many struggling to finish.

The  results for race 8 of the spring series can be found here

and the overall series results to date can be found here

A decent Westerly / North Westerly wind greeted the yachts and dinghies that took part in this years Pigeon Trophy charity race. From the start Chris Hampe’s International Canoe showed its pace after its winter refit and revelled in the conditions to pull away from Nigel Clatworthy’s Contender who was setting his own respectable pace. Steph & Denise Newcomb were chasing hard in their RS200 along with Beth Mathews & Chloe Bevan-Smith in their Hobie 405. Hugh Spencer’s Lightning dinghy was keeping up with the pack and after 90 minutes of racing missed out on third place by just 14 seconds to Steph & Denise Newcomb. Despite his best efforts Nigel Clatworthy could not match the pace of Chris Hampe’s International Canoe who took a well desreved first place ahead of the Contender. Denise & Steph Newcomb took third place ahead of Hugh Spencer with Beth Mathews & Chloe Bevan-Smith in fifth spot.

The yachts were dominated by the WHSC’s Trapper fleet which saw Keiron Kennedy taking an early lead despite sailing single handed and managied to slowly edge away from the chasing pack of yachts. Gary Wilcox in another Trapper 300 “Patsy” was having a close battle with Dave & Christine Warn’s Gibsea 312 “Pantomime” with the pair just 37 seconds apart at the end of the race. Dave Green & Kirsty Baynham in “La Strega” (yes another Trapper 300!!) finished next ahead of Tony Kennedy in his Hurley 22 ”Zingara”.

On handicap Keiron Kennedy’s “Spy Trapper” took both line & actual honours to claim a well deserved first place (Lu was not impressed !!). Dave & Christine Warn took second place on handicap displacing Gary Wilcox into third place ahead of Dave Green’s “La Strega” & Tony Kennedy’s “Zingara”

After the race Cargreen Yacht Club kindly put on a barbeque for the participants which was greatly appreciated along with a few refreshments from their bar.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the race – well done to all that took part & thankyou to Roger & Chrisine Payne for providing safety cover.

Special thanks must go to Don King & all at Cargreen Yacht Club for their very warm hospitality. We hope to return next year with a possible overnight stopover following popular demand for the event.

For full results please click here

For a full set of photos taken by Nikki Buckler please click on the below link

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/JONIK22500/PigeonTrophy2010?feat=directlink

 ***** UPDATE – 2010 HPSC Alan Pitt Dinghy Weekend – POSTPONED *****

Unfortunately the Alan Pitt Dinghy Weekend has had to be postponed due to unforseen circumstances at HPSC.

They are looking into arranging a revised date for the weekend & will refund any advance entry fees paid  www.hpsc.org.uk

Hooe Point Sailing Club will be holding a dinghy weekend on Saturday 12th & 13th June.

Due to the close proximity to ours  (19th / 20th June) we have decided to combine both regattas into  the HPSC Alan Pitt Memorial Regatta.

NOR / SI’s / Race Entry forms can be found below – for further details  see :  www.hpsc.org.uk

Alan Pitt Memorial Regatta 2010 NOR

Alan Pitt Memorial Regatta 2010 SI’s

Alan Pitt Memorial Regatta 2010 Entry Form

Sadly due to the presence of Fog again and the current met office forecast we have had no option but to cancel tonights race on safety grounds.

Follow RPCYC on Twitter with FREE SMS Sailing updates including Cancellations.  Tonight’s notification was later than usual but where possible will be made in good time to save you a wasted trip.