BBQ and coals provided – just bring your own food and drink.

After racing bank holiday weekend, Sunday,  3rd June – from 6.00 pm

British Waterways have been approached about the development and approve our propsals “in principle”.

Plans are being made to continue club activities during the build phase.

Offers of loans are still being made (thank you!) and more would be most welcome!

We hope to be able advise on further developments/news in the next few weeks.

We have expanded the training fleet this year with 3 new RS Tera’s

Improvement have be made to the training section of the website allowing you to book courses online. We will add additional courses in the next few week and continue to improve the training website.

The next stage will be to go out to Tender for pricing, which we hope to do so by the end of February.

We will keep you all updated as progress with the project

Thank you to all those who have pledged their support for the development plan.

In the post over the coming days you should receive communications relating to the pledges you have made.

Please complete and return along with the appropriate funds as soon as possible in order that we can keep the project on track

Mirror training Autumn Half term

Half Term Frolics 2011

Overall the Autumn Half Term Frolics at Beaver Sailing Club were a very successful event, the standard of sailor ranged from raw beginner to battle hardened championship racer. With Richard Benson as an experienced coach leading the session, some top class teaching and learning took place.

On the Thursday it was an overcast day with winds forecasted at 10 knots, but we only ever saw a max of 4. This proved challenging for the trainees; especially Connor and Jess who had only ever sailed twice before.  However they took on board advice and encouragement and improved rapidly throughout the 2 days. The trainees spent the day working on roll tacking and roll gybing in racing situations and also looked at key aspects of fast sailing, focusing on boat handling mainly. A slalom course was set up and the sailors had to weave in between the marks, tacking through every upwind mark and gybing downwind. This drilled in the importance of quick efficient tacks whilst looking out for other boats.

On Friday the wind was forecast to be 1-3 knots but we got more than the day before. A steady 10 knot breeze blew until the end of the day when it dropped off. The focus of the day was again on the racing side of sailing where practice downwind starts where utilised to get the trainees thinking about boat position, timing and the rules!  A gate taught the basics of line bias as trainees chose which mark they wanted to round at the bottom of the run to make their way back up to the finish. After lunch Richard ran a session on lane holding off the start line and then finished with a race at the end of the day which was won by visitors from Pennine – Rachael and Amy Jenkins.

Thankyou to Matt Grayson for organising the event as it was a great success and lots of positive feedback was shared. Thanks to Richard Benson for some great coaching and imparting tons of knowledge on the trainees. Many thanks also to Helen Grayson and Majella Dean for running the galley and supplying Farmer Copley’s sausage rolls for lunch.

Eddie Grayson.

Jack Wetherell was first British sailor in the Laser National Championships at Weymouth and now holds British National Champion and British Inland National Champion titles in the Laser class.

Henry Wetherell was first Junior at the Laser Radial National Championships, beating many youth sailors in this most competitive single-handed fleet.

Emma & Rachel Grayson were first Ladies at the Mirror National Championships held at Falmouth.

Closer to home, Ben Settle won the Beaver SC Junior regatta in his Optimist.

Congratulations to all our junior/youth sailors flying the flag for Beaver Sailing Club!