London Youth Travellers at Hillingdon Outdoor Activities Centre

London Youth Travellers at Hillingdon © Sally Jones

The first London Youth Traveller Event took place on Sunday 19th April at Hillingdon Outdoor Activities Centre (HOAC), an event organised by parents to allow participants from London based clubs and RYA Centres to enable the youth sailors to take part in class racing in a relaxed and friendly environment in different locations across the capital. The forecast looked good for Sunday with a nice force 2 forecast perfect for the first event of the season.

31 sailors took to the water in Lasers, Toppers, Feva's and Tera's competing 4 races. The race officer team set an interesting Course around the lake and had 2 starts for the different fleets. The first race got underway with the Feva & Laser fleets starting first followed by the Tera's and Topper's.

There were 2 races before Lunch, Curtis dominated the Topper fleet but had to fight off Jack and Frankie continually to keep his 1st Places.

In the afternoon the course was changed slightly and 2 more races planned. All the fleets were changing positions during the afternoons racing and it was exciting for the on shore parents to watch. The Laser fleet had positions changing continually so it was anyone's guess who was going to be in the top 3! With the Tera & Laser fleets many replying on the last race the results came down to count back to work out who had won which prizes!

Thank you to the sponsors Virtual Rigger (www.v-rigger.com) for some excellent prizes. A great day had by all.

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