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Club News - December

DRAFT WYC 2017 WYC Sailing Programme

Posted: Tuesday, 20 December , 2016

The 2017 Programme will be going to print early in the new year, and will be sent out to members with the AGM papers in February. This year we've managed to schedule even more races and events, and we're looking forward to another excellent year of sailing. The season kicks off with the first race on Saturday 11th March, and concludes with the end of the Winter Series on 17th December. Between those dates we have 75 club races, 34 club cups and special races, 6 cruises and 7 Open and Nationals events! Highlights of the programme include an RS Feva/Terra Open on 8&9th July, the B14 Nationals between 3rd and 6th August, Whitstable Week from 7th to 11th August, and a Laser European Qualifier event on 21st&22nd October . You can download the full draft list of events here. Any comments or questions, please contact the rear.comm.sailing@wyc.org.uk.

Winter Series Results and full list of 2016 winners

Posted: Sunday, 11 December , 2016

Congratulations to Phil Emery in his Merlin Rocket, Steve Grey in his Laser and John Gibbons in his Laser Radial who came first in their classes in the 2016 Winter Series. Prizes were awarded after the final race on Sunday 11th December. For all of the Prizes awarded in 2016, including this years Special Awards, download the list here, or checkout the detail results at wyc.org.uk/on-the-water/results/2016.

Notes from the 2016 Meeting of Sailors

Posted: Saturday, 10 December , 2016

Click below to download the notes taken at the Meeting of Sailors held on 27th November 2016. Thanks to everyone who attended.
Notes_of_meeting_of_Sailors_2016_11_27.pdf

“You haven’t won the race, if in winning the race you have lost the respect of your competitors”*

Posted: Thursday, 08 December , 2016

Older members and followers of Olympic sailing will be sad to hear that Paul Elvstrom died at his home in Hellerup, Denmark, yesterday (7th December) at the age of 88. Not unreasonably dubbed The Great Dane by far too many journalists, Elvstrom was one of the Great Names in sailing history.
He won four consecutive Olympic gold medals: Firefly in 1948 (the London Olympics, sailing in Torbay); Finn in 1952 (Helsinki), 1956 (Melbourne) and 1960 (Rome). Apocryphal or not, the story is told that he would train in his Finn during a snowstorm so that he could learn to read the windshifts. He was reserve for the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 (where Keith Musto and Tony Morgan won Silver in the FD) and competed in the Star and Soling fleets in the next two Games without winning a medal. In 1984 and 1988 he competed in the Tornado class with his daughter Trine on the wire.
But if Olympic medals eluded him after those four wins, other victories were plentiful. He won eleven world championships - 505 (2), Finn (2), Snipe (1), Flying Dutchman (1), 5.5 Metre (1), Star (2), and Soling (2) and two Tornado European championships with Trine.
His books are still among the best sailing literature ever written, he founded the eponymous sail and boat building companies and he was a thoroughly nice guy.
*famous quote by Paul Elvstrom.