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Any Northern 12's planning on doing the birkett this year? Lois and I will be going and I can double stack your boat back to Sunderland for the following weekend. The notice of race will be up later this week. If you could let me know if you plan on coming to Sunderland then it will help us to make sure that the catering is sorted.

Have anyone got a spare super spars carbon mast  that Lois and I can borrow for  a couple of weeks. Ours snapped at  Burwain on Saturday and we're waiting to find out if its going to be repaired or if we're getting a new one. But we're stuck without one and we were planning on doing Trent on May 10th.

For all 12's north of the south, Don't forget Sunderland on July 12th. very easy to get to, just 10 mins off the A19.easier to get to and find than many of the clubs in the north. I'm  really hoping that all you scottish sailors will make the trip south to sail on one of the best bits of water in the country. (I'm really not kidding, and I'm not even a local). The same applies to you guys in the midlands. why not take the opportunity to get in some pre Burton Week sea sailing practice.  We're very lucky that we can race on the sea, in the harbour or in the river and as such we're really hoping that we'll sera great turn out of both modern and vintage boats. There's no shortage of b&b's on the seafront and camping and campervans can stay on site. To check out the venue have a look on the Roker webcam at sunderland.gov site. That shows the beach and the harbour. And here's a recent picture that we had taken by a drone showing the clubs launching beach in the harbour and the river behind.