2 January

The Grafham Grand Prix takes place this year on January 2nd – perfectly planned to let you get away from the dishes and to blow away the seasonal excesses. Many classes are including it in their winter series and we are making special efforts to attract foiling classes and catamarans. If your class travel why not get your mates to come too. Any Class that gets 8 boats taking part will automatically get their own prizes. The details are as follows:

Entry is open to all monohulls with PY 690 to 1150, (single handers to PY 1200) and to catamarans from PY640 to 1000.

There will be four starts as follows:

• Fast Asymmetrics (PY 720 to 924), Fast Cats (PY 640 to 781) and Foiling Moths & FF600’s.
• Medium/Fast Handicap (PY 690 to 1020) and Medium Cats (PY 782 to 1000)
• Slow Handicap (PY 1020 - 1150)
• Single Handers (PY 980 - 1200

The Foiling Moths and Foiling RS600’s will start with the Fast Asymmetrics Fleet but will race as a separate, foiling handicap fleet and be awarded separate prizes. Similarly if we get 8 or more entries of any class or group of Catamarans they will also get separate prizes. The Notice of Race is here:

Sprint Bob, 

All these fussy people .  I'll be there in my radial again and quite happy with the course we usually get.

Bert i take your point, but trying to fly a 27m2 (or however much it is) Symmetric kite deigned for W/L racing on a tight leg whilst boats which are slower then you sail past is not my idea of fun.  All i want is to race on the W/L course.  We won't win anything as we are sh*t, but i don't want to tow the boat for 2hrs 30mins in the freezing cold, to be told i can't use my kite.  I don't speak for the rest of the 5oh's but if we have to race on a Trap course i don't think may others will turn up.  We wouldn't of bothered with the Dash, but our boat was there and we wanted to show our support to Draycote, they have after all really looked after the 5o5 fleet this year. 

Hi Russ