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Gul series provisional results

Those of you who were at Burton Week, Pevensey this year will know already that there has been an interesting development in the National 12 class by designer Gavin Willis. He's conjoured up a design that can change it's shape according to the conditions. We've created a short video filmed at our championships where Gavin explains the how it works on his latest Paradigm 4. https://youtu.be/ne_rlswt1B8

Yeadon open meeting is on Sunday 6th Oct 2019
The timings for the event are:

Race Brief at 10.30am.
First race at 11.00am.
Lunch straight after the first race.
Followed by 2 more races with a Tea break in-between.
Ending with the prize giving.

The club address is Tarnfield Park, High Street, Yeadon, LS19 7TA. Basically it is between 'The Little Fisherman' fish and chip Shop on the High Steet and Leeds and Bradford International airport.

Contact: Tony Dufton  N12 3283 

Can anyone help to transport a vintage boat from Colchester to her new home near Reading in the next few weeks? She doesn't have a road trailer so the trolley would need strapping on to a road base.

ThanksZoe
chair@national12.org

The National 12 Class has been invited to enter 2 boats for the Grand Finals of the Great British Sailing Challenge and Battle of the Classes, which takes place at Rutland Sailing Club on the weekend of 28 and 29 September, 2019. If you would like to represent the class, please contact the chair (chair at national12.org) Juniors are particularly encouraged.

Details below:


Entry for the weekend is £55, which includes a Finalist's T-shirt, along with on-the-water photography by Tim Olin, live streaming, interviews, GPS tracking and live blogging of the event. It's more than just your normal open meeting.

In addition to overall prizes across all competitors, there will be a number of special prize categories to acknowledge the best in each group :

Fast Asymmetric
Fast Non-Asymmetric
Slow Asymmetric
Slow Non-Asymmetric

Youth
18-30
30-60
60+

Ladies

28 entries so far and a few more to come in (see list below). We'll publish results here during the event

1 3530 VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR   GRAHAM CAMM   ZOE BALLANTYNE
2 3540 ATOMIC KITTEN                     JON IBBOTSON   RACHEL SMITH
3 3545 A WOOD AND A SHEEP           TOM LEE  JENEFER BUGGE
4 3515 HAPPY HOUR                         GEOFF CAMM   HENRY CAMM
5 3544 WHITEBAIT                           TOM STEWART   ROBERT STEWART
6 3///                                               ISOBEL STEWART  FREYA LILLYWHITE
7 3501 SILVERFIN                             NEAL LILLYWHITE  SAM BROWN TBC
8 3467 NELLO AN BOO                      CHRIS CLARKE   MICHAEL TANNER
9 3529 CAT IN THE HAT                     ANTONY GIFFORD  JO GIFFORD
10 3429 FOOLS GOLD                        ROB STARLING   HOLLY STARLING
11 3320 QUASIMODO                        DAN MEADOWCROFT   KATY MEADOWCROFT
12 3543 D.B.COOPER                        JOHN MEADOWCROFT  GEORGE LANCE
13 3473 MAX FACTOR                        ROSIE WHITE   MAX ROBERTSON
14 3527 SNAGGLEPUSS                     ANDREA DOWNHAM   PIPPA KILSBY
15 3443 THE FULL MONTY                 JOHN THORNTON   MANDY THORNTON
16 3531 CATBERT                             STEVE SALLIS   JOANNE SALLIS
17 3526 CATCH THE SUN                  CHRISTIAN DAY   CHARLOTTE STEWART
18 3483 TONTO                               JON BROWN   SAM BROWN??
19 3519 DEAD CAT BOUNCE             JEREMY HARTLEY   LUKE LAZELL
20 3450 CARBON 12                         MAX SHIEL   ANNABEL STOTT
21 3537 LOLA                                  MIKE HOYLE   JENNY WILSON
22 3502 CARBONARA                       PATRICK HAMILTON   BRYONY THORNTON ?
23 3492 BABEL FISH                        ROLAND WHITEHEAD  KATIE WHITEHEAD
24 3437 WORTH ITS WEIGHT            CHRIS MAYHEW   NICOLE MAYHEW
25 3445 CAPRICCIO                         NIGEL WHITE   CHRIS WHITE
26 3550 REALLY ?                            GAVIN WILLIS   CLARA DAWKINS
27 3538 GLASS AND A HALF FULL     GERALD COPSEY   TANYA COPSEY
28 3546 SHADES OF GREY                RICHARD EAGLETON   NICOLA PALMER

I have been approached by someone who is keen to crew at Burton Week if anyone needs a crew - please let me know and I will put you in touch.

Zoe

This year 12Fest is at Ardleigh Sailing Club, Colchester on 6-7 July. It is a relaxed weekend of coaching and racing designed to get everyone going that bit faster on the water, with an emphasis on having fun. You'll gain something from the weekend whether you are a N12 novice or championship racer.
12 fleet regulars Graham Camm, Zoe Ballantyne & John Meadowcroft will be running the coaching. Coaching will focus on tuning, boat handling, boat speed and starting tactics. There will be debriefs at the end of each day to look at the video footage and see how much you've improved.

Free camping is available on site and camper vans can park in the car park overnight.

Ardleigh's caterers are unfortunately on holiday over the weekend we're visiting so please bring your own food for lunch both days and for Sunday breakfast. Sailors are able to use the club kitchen facilities, hot drinks and light snacks (crisps, chocolate etc) are available, but camping stoves aren't allowed.  We'll be heading to the Wooden Fender pub, just down the road from the club, for Saturday dinner, let us know if you'd like to join so we can book tables.

Entry is just £25 per boat

Coaching starts at 11am on Saturday 6th July. Let us know if you are coming and what you'd like to cover here

Club details: Ardleigh Sailing Club, Clover Way, Ardleigh, Colchester, Essex CO7 7PT (see http://www.asc.memberlodge.com/About-ASC for directions)

[Are you good at persuading people to get involved?]

Are you good at persuading people to get involved?
Do you want to see your name in print?
If you said yes, then you could be the next editor of the world-renowned (ish) N12 Newsletter! 
You don't need to be an expert in document editing software, Ed Willett (previous editor) is happy to give a tutorial.
If you're interested, please contact  ntoa@national12.org.

The South Windermere SC Open Meeting is on the 11th & 12th May 2019/

   
• Food will be available on both days from the galley
• Boats can be dropped off by arrangement on Friday evening.
• Saturday morning access is unavailable between 9am and 10am due to the park run.

Please get in touch with Ange O'Donnell at the sailing club if you'd like to know more
Happy sailing
Graham

   

Please be aware there has been one change of date, the Burwain open meeting is now 23rd June(not 18th May). Also, three new events have been added to the fixtures list     Coaching @ Twickenham 4th Aug Coaching @ Henley 14th Sept Twickenham open meeting added 20th Oct Hope to see you at one of them Happy sailing Graham

The 2019 National 12 Gul Series kicks off on Saturday the 16^th March at Burghfield Sailing Club, near Reading. The event is a sprint series with eight short races which are fast, frantic and fun. In addition to the sprint racing we have a tuning clinic, crews race and lots of cake (for after racing). Also handicaps will be applied allowing older designs to show what they can do.
9:45am   Tuning Clinic
10:15am Briefing
11:00am First race
After lunch crews race
After racing - tea and cake

Last year we had 16 boats, come and join the fun and make it over 20 this year. Pre entry discount ends on 13 March so get your entries in early here
See the Burghfield Website for directions
If you need a crew, want a helm or boat post on the National 12 Forum

Someone mentioned to me at the Dinghy Show that the National 12 videos hadn't been available on YouTube for a while. I think they were removed due to the funky choons infringing copyright. The good news is that Google seem to have some arrangement now so that videos with choons and be uploaded  (they've probably had it for a while but I've only just noticed). So I've uploaded all the N12 videos at https://www.national12.org/videos/

There's some great and entertaining footage, not to mention some great toe tapping beats

Happy viewing

Graham

[We need helpers to envangelish how great 12s are!]

We need helpers to envangelish how great 12s are!

The Dinghy Show is on the 2nd and 3rd March at Alexandra Palace, North London. The 12s are planning on making our presence know this year, in particular we are going to try and appeal to the family contingent with stickers and sweets to draw in the kids, a new t-shirt to emphasis the National 12 presence and the full range of class videos to provide some entertainment.
Are you or your family able to help out on the stand for 2 hours on one of the days? If so please let us know what slots you can do on the Doodle Poll


If you have kids who are also able to help out and let the other kids know how great 12s are, then please add them to the poll.

Hopefully see you at the show

Graham

Are you planning to join us for Burton Week in Pevensey Bay 24th-27th Aug 2018. Let us know you if you intend to enter by adding your name to the list here. Very Hungry Caterpillar will be there. Full details at https://www.national12.org/burtonweek/2019/

Graham & Zoe

Voting is now open for the Dinghy Show sticker. We've short listed the entries to...

1 4 Eras One N12
2 Spread your wings
3 Let's sail
4 100% Fun
5 Sail right!
Please vote and let us know which one you'd like to be sticking on to punters at the Dinghy Show.

Voting is now open for the T-shirt design.
Thanks to everyone who has put some creative thinking into the t-shirt designs. There have been lots of great artistic entries, please take a look and vote for the one you like best (and would like to wear this year).


1 N12 Design Anchor [T-shirt entry - Max Shiel.png]
2 12 Feet of Perfetion [T-shirt entry - Clare Hunter.png]
3 All 4 one and one 4 all [T-shirt entry - Twite.png]
4 N12 Boat Outline [T-Shirt entry - 3512SL.jpg]
5 Does it delight? (flow chart) [T-shirt entry - Camms.png]
6 N12 Reaching [T-shirt entry - Isobel1.png]
7 N12 Fleet starting [T-shirt entry - Isobel2.png]

Calling all budding artists  - we need a National 12 sticker and t-shirt designs for the Dinghy Show 2019.

We're planning on making our presence known at the Dinghy Show next March and we'd like to involve as many of the kids/youth of the fleet over the weekend. We're going to have helpers wearing N12 t-shirts plastering stickers on as many passers by as possible.

We need eye-catching t-shirt and sticker designs. Sticker design should work well on either a circle, square or rectangle of around 80mm.

Please post your ideas here and we'll have a vote on the 19th Jan to select one. Below are some of the t-shirts from previous years (yes they are looking well worn/loved

Happy designing

Graham

We would like to offer a photo booth-type activity on our stand at the Dinghy Show to attract younger visitors - does anyone have a camera which prints out photos instantly which the class could borrow? The class would cover film cost of course.
Please let us know.

One of our long standing N12 members is no longer able to sail and is offering his wooden Final Chapter for free to a worthy new owner. This could be a younger sailor, an up-and-coming new member or a club. If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please email the NTOA chair.

Boat details: Final Chapter wood built by Dare Barry Sound condition, dry stored
All gear. Good cover, launching trolley and double trailer