Rooster Southern Area Topper Traveller Series 2017

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Rooster Southern Area Topper Traveller Series 2017

by Jason Kirk 2 Mar 2017 09:39 GMT 2 March 2017

Elliott Kuzyk wins Southern Area Topper Championships © Peter Newton / www.peternewton.zenfolio.com

The Notice of Race and events calendar for the 2017 Southern Area Topper Traveller Series are now available directly for review on the Topper UK website in the relevant 'Southern Area' section here.

Once again for this year, we are extremely grateful to those nice people at Rooster Sailing for kindly sponsoring the series and whom will be providing the much sought after and coveted embroided visors which are so popular with the sailors to try and win one.

2017 events for 5.3 and 4.2 rig sizes: (series results will be based on 5 events sailed)

Traveller 1: Spinnaker SC - April 9th
Traveller 2: Warsash SC - May 21st
Traveller 3: Poole YC - June 11th
Traveller 4: Stokes Bay SC - July 1st
Traveller 5: Chichester YC - July 9th
Traveller 6: Burghfield SC - September 2nd *RYA Zone Squad selector event
Traveller 7: Island Barn SC - September 9th
Traveller 8: Bosham SC - October 8th

In addition, a final season event will take place – the 5.3 / 4.2 Southern Area Championships at Hill Head SC on October 22nd and this will be run as a stand-alone event.

Open Coaching Programme

In order to support the development and skills of junior sailors and build race confidence throughout the season, 6 open coaching days have been organised and which will run on the following dates:

Spinnaker SC - April 8th
Warsash SC - May 20th
Poole YC - 10th June
Chichester YC - 8th July
Bosham SC - 7th October *RYA Zone Squad selector event
Hill Head SC - 21st October

Signing up to partake is easy – simply visit www.ITCA-GBR.co.uk enter events – and select and sign up. The cost per sailor per coaching event is £25.

Should you require further information on either traveller series or the open coaching programme, then please use the contact links set up on the Southern Area webpage of the ITCA-GBR website.

We look forward to seeing you at the events this year.

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