Event: Thames Valley Challenge
    6 Jun 2015

Hosted by:
Silver Wing Sailing Club

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Open to these classes:
RS Feva

See also: wordpress.silverwingsailingclub.co.uk/thames-challenge

This year it’s at Silverwing Sailing Club in Wraysbury, a 60 acre Lake near Staines.

The Thames Challenge is a 3 boat junior team racing event sailed in Fevas. It’s an exciting competition between clubs but its also great fun! Last year we had 12 teams and over 80 children sailing.

You need to be able to sail competently around a course but no particular racing skills or team racing experience is needed. This is the perfect first event to do away from your home club or even a good introduction to racing.

3 crews sail together as a team. They race against similar teams in a series of short races, usually around 10 minutes, on an S shaped course. The aim is to beat the team you race against by scoring more points for the positions in which you finish (so 1st, 2nd, 3rd beats 4th 5th, 6th obviously but lots of other combinations win too!)

It's not complicated – if you can add up to 10 you can work it out. But we’ll have live scores on display on the day so you can see how you are doing. And they’ll be a briefing on the day so you know how it all works.

All boats are provided on the day and who will sail in different boats in different races. But don’t worry they will all be rigged the same so nobody gets an advantage.

If you do have Fevas you can lend for the event that will be really helpful and will also help to keep costs down

You need to be 16 or under.

First get together your team, 6 sailors plus up to 2 reserves. You also need an adult to be Team Manager to organise you on the day. Contact Lisa to enter, let us know early because there will be a limit on the number of teams.



The entry fee is £17 a child and includes breakfast lunch and tea! We also ask for a deposit cheque for £300 in case of any boat damage.





As this is an event organised by volunteers we also ask that all competing clubs provide a couple of volunteers to help on the day – whether that’s as a race officer, in safety boats or making the tea! All help gratefully received and we’ll feed you on the day!

See also https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thames-Valley-Challenge-6th-June/366345963572143
Contact:
Lisa Killham      

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