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Spring Series - Solo Race 2
Fourteen Solo Sailors arrived at the start line for the Salcombe Yacht Club Solo Spring Series Race 2. In a force three to four South South Easterly breeze. Race Officer …
Spring Series - Handicap Race 2
The second race of the 2024 Spring Series attracted a fleet consisting of three Merlin Rockets, one Laser Radial, and a Topper, all eager to compete on the water. …
Spring Series - Solo Race 1
The start of the Salcombe Yacht Club Spring Series saw a small but select group of Solo sailors to the starting line. Those who did not turn up had no …
Spring Series - Handicap Race 1
The Handicap Spring Series kicked off on Saturday with just two Merlin Rocket teams taking to the water. Andrew and Tristram Squire timed their arrival to the …
SYC Ramblers Walk - Ringmore Loop
SYC Ramblers Walk, 25th February 2024 - Ringmore Loop. The weather was lovely on the Saturday and the Monday, but on Sunday 25th, the forecast …
Salcombe Yacht Club Festive Series 2023/24
Eleven competitors, mainly in Solos, turned up for the 1st race of the Salcombe Yacht Club Festive Series 2023/24 on Saturday 23rd December. Despite the forecast westerly breeze, gusting over …
The Final Race of the Winter Series.
The 2023 Fast Handicap Winter Series concluded on Saturday with improved wind conditions, averaging 8-10 knots from the W-SW. Six boats participated: two Merlin Rockets, John and Annie McLaren in …
Winter Series : Race 3 Solo Report
With what was to become a challenging race, the light wind in a northly direction, 0 - 3 knts, and one hour into the flood, what could possibly go wrong. …
Winter Series : Race 3 Handicap Report
Course X-1-X-1-X-1 There was a real feel of winter as a light dusting of frost glazed some of the dinghy covers on the tank. A frost usually indicates …
Cruiser Laying Up Supper
With the harbour sublift having done its work depositing the majority of the fleet on the dump at Batson and with other boats at Lincombe and various points North, East, …
A different kind of Cruise.
Portsmouth to Southampton by the pretty route! In actual fact via Azores, Bermuda, Bahamas, Panama Canal, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Cape Horn; then four days of penguins, …
Winter Series : Race 2 Solo Report
For your correspondent Salcombe Yacht Club Winter Series Race 2 for Solos was best forgotten, in fact if it were not for the need for a race report, the Race …