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The 2020 Fireball Nationals is provisionally back on!

by UKFA 19 Jun 10:58 BST 1-4 October 2020
The Fireball Nationals is provisionally back on! © Simon Benson

After the difficult decision to cancel the Nationals in July and the unavailability to book a later date in 2020 with WPNSA we thought we would be without a Nationals this year.

We're now really pleased to announce that we have managed to secure a new venue and dates to hold our Nationals which will be at Hayling Island Sailing Club from 1st-4th October. This will be a joint Nationals with the 505 class who have already secured the dates with HISC. HISC and the 505s have welcomed the idea of sharing a joint Nationals and we would like to thank everyone for making this opportunity possible under these challenging times.

This is of course subject to COVID-19 restrictions being relaxed to allow double handed sailing.

We hope this will make for a thoroughly enjoyable and memorable event.

Further details will be available in due course.

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