June’s weather was rather mixed to say the least and it was a great shame that our main regatta of the year was impacted by high winds resulting in the races for Friday and Saturday postponed, however Sunday proved much better and we managed to run a full programme of events including our up and coming Optimist Regatta Fleet with some very close racing between Lottie Ohlsson and George Edwards who tied for points with Lottie ultimately taking the series and Trophy De Paris on count back. Well done to everyone who took part.

As a reminder we are running the Saturday’s events on Sunday 18th August including the postponed Liberation Trophy Race and the Friday night races on Sunday 28th July.

In contrast the Commodore’s Regatta had perfect conditions and congratulations go to Ben Rogers who won the Commodore’s Cup and Morgan Surcouf the Commodore’s Plate. The Jubilee Regatta also benefited from nice conditions with a good turnout. Well done to Peter Raimbault who won the Jubilee Trophy, Jonny Jones being the first U18 winning the Buchanan Cup and Charlie Hewgill first Optimist winning the Jubilee Mug.

A special thanks must go to our House Committee and their helpers for the superb catering at all these Regattas. It has certainly been a busy month for them.

Looking ahead to July we have the Twilight Evening Series running plus completion of the Gala and Bel Val Series.

The big event of the month is the Gorey Regatta over the weekend 12th – 14th July with the Tommy Horton Feeder race to Gorey on the Friday evening with racing in the Royal Bay over the whole weekend. The event has the honour of being one of the oldest Regattas in the world and has a great atmosphere on the beach from where competitors launch from. Sign up for the regatta here: https://www.goreyregatta.org/

Our final event in July is the Personal Handicap Mini Series 1&2 on the 28th July. For this event we apply a personal handicap to sailors based on their performance during the year, this makes it tougher for our top sailors to win and easier for newcomers and less experienced to feature at the top of the podium.

As mentioned earlier we are also running the postponed the Single Handed Swan Verner Cup and Crews Challenge at the end of the above mini series.

So plenty to look forward to.

Happy Sailing

Sailing Committee