For those who haven't already heard the Symmetric Hikers Challenge is happening on the weekend of 14th / 15th July at Rutland SC and Sunsail are offering a free holiday for 2 adults to Turkey for a week as a prize! To keep it even the winner will be drawn from a hat on the Saturday night so everyone entering the event has an equal chance of winning.

Oh yeah, if a free holiday isn't enough for you, Super Spars are offering a free mast to the winner, Dinghy Sailing Magazine are providing cash prizes for 2nd, 3rd and 1st junior overall and offering free annual subscriptions as spot prizes, Fotoboat are providing 3 sets of photos as prizes as well as taking pictures at the event, Paintcraft are offering a £100 voucher to be used on any of their products / services and Harken and Speed Sails are also providing prizes!

Add in a good weekends racing and big social and what more do you need?

Simply get your hands on a non-trapeze, symmetric spinnaker boat with a handicap less than 1200 (Merlin Rockets, GP14s, Larks, Wayfarers, Scorpions, Miracles, Flying 15s etc.), register your interest at http://www.speedsails.co.uk/index.asp?selection=registerinterest&event=Symmetric%20Hikers%20Challenge - http://www.speedsails.co.uk/index.asp?selection=registerinte rest&event=Symmetric%20Hikers%20Challenge  so the organisers can get a rough idea of numbers and see you there.

More details at http://www.speedsails.co.uk - www.speedsails.co.uk and click on events.

Anyone else tempted?