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me and a very good u21 helm are looking to do the inlands and combined youth event at northampton!

if anyone would be so kind as to lend me a boat again that would be brilliant!

ideally a db, but a fast ac would be great too!

it will be looked after and returned to you in the same condition and il even throw in a few beers


cheers

sam

is anyone else finding it a pain to find anywhere to stay near the club?

nearest campsite being over 3 miles away.

houses being very expensive as they will only rent for a week.

does anyone have a db 12 that they would be willing to lend to myself and james taylor for burton week this year?

as we are both selling our boats but would like to attend burton week, ideally looking for a foolish, but any offers would be greatufully recieved

cheers
sam

Hi all,

if anyone has any video footage, old or new for the dinghy show video if you could contact me asap that would be fantastic.

also any nice still images would be great too!

any ideas for the video more than welcome just post below

cheers
sam

the dates for next seasons youth series are as follows


bloody mary 6th janurary

27th march burghfield
24-25th april saturday coaching sunday racing at spinnaker

1-3 may salcombe

26-27th june, Hykeham

22nd august redesmere
28-29th august, scottish champs

18 & 19 September Grafham Water SC

10 October    Twickenham SC

6 & 7 November    Northampton SC



also i am looking for ideas for encouraging the future of the class (our young people)
my ideas are, holding an informal youth nationals type event (sadly not possible this year)

holding more youth focused events
starting team racing events for fun
more class members being willing to lend boats to young people from other classes for events ( i know many already to for which i am very greatful)
getting more young people sailing at mixed class opens

and big advertising

i really want to hear your ideas and feedback
thanks

boing

would anyone be willing to lend a boat for northampton, i have a couple of friends from 200's who are keen to have a go in a 12.

either db or ac. can borrow a double stacker so can collect the boat and return it back to you.

greatly appreciated and im sure many beers in return

cheers
sam

as im am about to post up the results for the u25 series, i thought id remind you all northampton is the last event of the season!

so you should all come along to ensure you qualify, lots of you need this event!

also those of you who are camping, can you please bring some beer etc, for a end of youth series after party of course!!!

hi everyone
iv finally brought a 12, 3279 billly the hoover,

now i need a few things, if anyone has,
a spare undercover and or a top cover they are willing to give or sell?
i also need a bit of advice, i am removing muscle boxes from jib tensioner and shrouds, and wondering what the best way to run cascades/  purchace systems would be? any ideas or pics would be great!
it has a 2:1 on the deck which i will leave on there.

cheers
sam

I have a friend looking to get into 12 sailing

Looking for a good ac boat, baggy/d8 etc, preferably with carbon rig.
or a lower priced double bottom.
none of the ones on the for sale list are exactly what she wants, so were wondering if anyone has anything suitable that they were looking to sell for up to about £2000 for ac and £3500 for the db.

contact me and il pass on the details

cheers
sam

how does everyone feel about makeing burghfield on the 28th of march another youth series event?
it will still be 3 to count just adding another event to it, to hopefully get a few more entrants!
what does everyone think?
cheers
sam

[The UK's No.1 dinghy endurance race]

Dear All,
As some of you will know I was trying to organize a
team for the Southport 24h last year, but a bit too late and couldn't get a team
together, I am ideally looking for a team of  12  ish people, for those of you
that don't know much about it here are some more details.
 
The Southport/ WLYC 24 Hour Race; The UK's No.1 dinghy endurance
race.   The 24 Hour Race is the premiere opportunity for  teams to
compete for serious trophies (and status), whilst also enjoying the unique
hospitality provided by one of the best social events in the dinghy racing
calendar (The social event lasts for 48 hours - Friday,
through to Sunday)
 
The race is sailed on the relatively safe waters of the Marine Lake at
Southport, and racing is continuous for 24 Hours even in extreme weather
conditions.   Entries are accepted from Sailing Clubs, Class Associations and
Universities throughout the UK, with occasional visits from Eire, France and
even the USA.   Crew and equipment/sail changes are permitted (in a specially
designated docking area) during the race.
 
Don't be put off by the fact that the race is
sailed in ents larks of gp14's ( i will find a boat to borrow for the event) its
great fun and the small number of one design classes racing makes it very
competitive and tight racing.
This is a very competitive and fun event, usually
attracting 60+ boats.

were trying to decide between burnham market and brancaster,

cheers
sam

THE LONG AWAITED
THE FANTASTIC
NATIONAL 12 YOUNG PEOPLES SERIES
BEG BORROW STEAL AND DIG OUT YOUR BOATS HELMS AND CREWS
AND GET OUT SAILING

The SERIES is Open to EVERYONE under and including 25 on November the 8th 2009 (last event of the year) But don't fear, if you are 25 in 2009 you can still compete up until youth birthday for individual opens.
Both Helm and Crew Must be Under and Incuding 25.

Currently There are no Cups or prizes that I can award.
Hopefully if I am allowed to give out some glasses, there will be a prize for first overall at each open, and dependant on turn out first second and third overall in the series as well as first ac if there are a few db's competing.
All boats will be racing withing the National 12 Open so will follow the Si's dictated by that. Of course all boats must be valid Nat 12's
I have chosen open meetings spread over the country, so sorry if there is some travelling involved for most people at some time but i think its pretty evenly spread.
I have avoided July  and most of August as I know this is busiest exam time and Hopefully Have Manged to Avoid Most of the Uni Exams In keeping most of May and June free too.

so heres the bit youv all been waiting for
the dates (still subject to comfirmation)
3 EVENTS TO COUNT
ALL EVENTS ARE WITHIN NATIONAL 12 OPEN MEETINGS

April 25th Coaching at Spinnaker, not going to count but was hopeing it

could be a pre season warm up type thing.

May 2nd - 4th Salcombe
YC

June 6th - 7th Royal Harwich YC

June 27th - 28th Leigh and
Lowton Sc

August 29th - 30th Largs

September 20th
Henley

November 7th- 8th Northampton
Varied places and Varied Water so i hope you can all make as many as Possible.

Please say below if you are interested in comeing and also what events you are keen on comeing too would be great.
Hope to see loads and loads of old and new faces out this year
Sam

im proposting starting a u25's series for next year, its quite late now to organsie a separate series but if i get enough interest i will look into it.
but first of all i need to get interest in the series to see if i can get enough people to bother consulting the comittie about this.
i was thinking 5 events 3 to count.
piggy backed onto the circuit opens already planned, most likley to be salcombe, burghfield, first weekend of north norfolk week, burton week, and the inlands. but will re consider this once iv seen the open meeting list for next year,
i was also thinking to encourage more youth to these to arrange a little bit of extra social  most likley to be a quick trip to local pubs etc then back to the organised social.
hopefully separate prizes etc will be able to be arranged.
if anyone has any ideas please let me know, also if your interested please post below, ready made teams, helms withouth crews or boats, crews without helms and so on
sam childs
sam.childs@btinternet.com

would anyone be kind enough to lend me a boat for the inlands this weekend?
i hopefully have a crew lined up and would be really good to be able to compete at this event especially as we have a good ammount of young people comeing!
cheers
sam

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I have been doing a bit of rs200 sailing this year. I know I’m sorry.

But looking at their youth side etc its great to see how they encourage are
and how much emphasis is given to the youth and youth events.

In order to get more young people in the class, I have a few ideas,

For instance have a more publicised youth champs, maybe a weekend event? If
people were will be kind enough to lend their boats to people from other
classes to come to the champs, obviously we wouldn’t lend boats out to anyone,
would be trustworthy people who are good sailors. 12's are great boats to sail
and we need to let people in other classes know this, I’m sure we can find 10
helms and crew from other fleets easily and probably 5 from within the n12
fleet. 15 boats for a weekend open is pretty good, and if this were to be the
youth champs this would be a fantastic thing for the class to be doing. Especially
if well publicised.

I also think we could have some more focus on the social side, maybe have a
social committee made up of different age groups of people, and helms and
crews. This should be separate from the main committee so as people who don’t
own boats can be on the social comitie too. But maybe a rep from the committee
could report social news to the main committee.

Sorry if I’m sticking my nose in where it isn’t wanted I just thought a few
ideas would be nice

Hope to get some feedback and if anyone has any ideas please air them.
Really want to hear what people think

Sam

boing!!!

caroline cant make this weekend so im in need of a helm.
would love to get out for the last event in the series.
email me on sam.childs@btinternet.com
thanks