There is a spare room in the Premier Inn at Southend, walking distance of the club, 4 nights starting Friday. Family room for 3, £314.

Contact Nick Neve NJN@oakham.rutland.sch.uk  before friday morning when he will cancel the booking if no takers.

The RS Feva Open Race day was held at Oxford SC at Farmoor Reservoir on Saturday 11th May. Crews of mixed experience raced in a field of 10x Fevas in challenging conditions. Mixed in were separate race starts for 20x Tera Sports and Tera Pros, making the start lines very ‘busy’. Each race was 4 laps of a windward/leeward course, the afternoons races being back-to-back. Launching and landing was made more difficult with the strong winds blowing onto the sloping lee shore of the reservoir.

The weather had started out blustery with average wind speeds of 25-30mph and big direction swings and which deteriorated further during the day to eventually peak at a recorded speed of 54 mph during the third race; at that point, with a large percentage of the boats over-turned on the water, the third race was cancelled.

The local pairing of Wills Murray and Will Ormerod took top honours, winning both the first two races, in a day that will be remembered most for the weather conditions.

1st Wills Murray & Will Ormerod

2nd Anya Green & Charlotte Ormerod

3rd Billy Vennis-Ozanne & Anna Mackay

Full Results

http://www.oxfordsailingclub.com/open-events/open-events-reviews?race=2013-05-11%20RS%20Feva%20and%20RS%20Tera%20Open%20Meeting%20May%2011%202013

Several of the crews returned in similar gusty conditions the next day for an RS-organized Feva training event led by Robert Baddeley, a former RS Feva champion.

Many thanks to Oxford Sailing Club for hosting and providing the much needed safety cover.

Having endured fickle winds, strong gusts and driving rain on day one of the regatta , the concluding day of the RYA Eric Twiname Championships brought with it far more favourable conditions for the 268 competitors at the event, with spells of sunshine and an average 12-14 knots. As a result the days full complement of three races took place allowing for some swapping of places at the top of the fleets and the RYA South West Zone to emerge as the 2013 RYA Eric Twiname Champions.

Whilst the RYA South West clinched the prestigious Eric Twiname Shield, the RYA South Zone won the Eric Twiname Dinghy Trophy, awarded to the Zone performing best from the top two dinghy classes out of the three, while the South East Zone clinched the Eric Twiname Windsurfing Trophy out of the grasp of last year’s winner the North Zone, awarded to the Zone scoring best from two of the four windsurfing classes.

In the RS Feva XL class South Zone sailors Edward Norbury and Charlie Hutchings delivered a consistent set of results on the final day of the championships with 2-1-3, catapulting them above the South West Zone’s overnight leaders Alaric Bates and Matt Walker-Morecroft to take event honours by a single point. Michael Dennis and Milo Gordon rounded off their regatta in third place taking another podium spot for the South West and therefore sealing the overall top spot for South West in the RS Feva XL class.

Duncan Truswell, RYA Youth Racing Manager, said: “The Championship this year has once again been an enormous success with the South West Zone walking away proud winners. I have been extremely impressed by the standard of sailing displayed across the RYA Junior classes this year, the sailors have obviously worked hard with their coaches over the winter as part of the RYA Zone and Home Country Squad programmes and its really pleasing to see how much progress has been made and how capable the sailors are. Once again Rutland Sailing Club fielded a massive team of volunteers and have made us all fantastically welcome from word go. I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of the RYA, the Trust and all the sailors who have benefitted. My thanks as well to the Eric Twiname Trust for supporting the regatta for the 27th consecutive year.”

Thanks to the long-standing and on-going support of the Eric Twiname Trust, the event is free to enter with all of the costs associated with the running of the regatta met by the RYA and the Trust.

For the full set of results from each class and for more information on the RYA Eric Twiname Championships please visit the event website at www.ryaracingevents.org.uk

1) Edward Norbury/Charlie Hutchings (Warsash SC)

2) Alaric Bates/Matt Walker-Morecroft (Bowmoor SC)

3) Michael Dennis/Milo Gordon (Baltic Wharf Sailing Club)