As our ferry company have their largest ship being serviced at the beginning of the early Spring Bank Holiday there will be no sailing at 02.15 from Heysham on the  5^th  May. Sailings from Liverpool are as normal.  Some would have trouble getting here on time so we have put racing back. There will be a 12.00 sailing from Liverpool on Saturday 5^th and we will have a practice race at aprox 4.30 that day. The Regatta will be on Sunday and Monday am with time to catch the fastcraft back to Liverpool at 3pm.

To book sailings please ring 01624 661661 and quote the RS Tera Open – you should get 50% discount for a competitor, boat and 1 adult. Any problems email brian.convery@steam-packet.com or bpartington@mcb.net. If you would like to stay in a local home please let Brian Partington know. (Some will already have made arrangements). We look forward to seeing you at the Isle of Man Yacht Club for a great weekend.

5th and 6th May 2012

For those planning their 2012 programme there will be another chance to travel to the Isle of Man for the early Spring Bank Holiday. Last year we had a great weekend with lots of sunshine – but too much wind. Hopefully it will be just right for the 5th/6^th May 2012 when the Isle of Man Yacht Club will be the hosts again. It gives the Manx sailors the opportunity to repay the hospitality they receive through the year.  Full details will be appearing on the club site www.iomyc.com but for now further details from Brian Partington bpartington@mcb.net or 01624844173.

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co.Ltd (our ferry company) are generously sponsoring the event by offering 50% reduction on ferry costs for competitor + adult + car and boat. You will need a code to book with. The event will also have a main sponsor. We hope to offer some homes for those who would like to stay with 'sailors' and other accommodation details can be found on www.gov.im/tourism/accommodation . Sailing in the Irish sea is great fun so come and join us and try it.

After a briefing we took to the water this time all in one group. The plan was that the Sports would race off after a 3, 2, 1 sequence and a minute later the Pros would start and race through them in search of clear air! It would force both Pro and Sport sailors to get their heads out of the boat. With Daniel Lewis dominating almost every race during Sunday and with a couple of wins for me and Anya a high level of competitive spirit was evident among the Pros.  

We came ashore de-rigged and enjoyed a relaxed debrief with video analysis to aid the coaches with pointing out improvements for bad tackers who were named and shamed. The video not only helped the person who was being videoed but gave coaches the chance to demonstrate areas which relate to bad habits of some of the  guilty squaddies hiding at the back.

 It was an amazing weekend fraught with capsizes (mainly me) but there were successes and all learned valuable lessons which have improved their performance. I was also pleased to be named overall sailor of the day for Sunday for the Pros with Joshua Boniface taking the title for the Sports.

By Flynn Davies, Pro National Squad

My first squad weekend at Bewl Valley Sailing Club.

It was fantastic, I learnt if you push your tiller over too hard it will slow you down a lot.

I got sailor of the day twice, I was very proud of myself

Thank you all of the coaches, I've learnt so much from just this weekend

By Joshua Boniface age (11)

On the 5th and 6th of November, it was the first squad weekend. It was at Bewl Valley Sailing Club which is a Reservoir. This was my first training weekend because I had only just joined the RS Tera Sports National squad.

The first day there was not that much wind, so it made it a bit harder to sail. We were looking at reverse flow. That is where the tell tails are flying in the opposite direction to which they are supposed to, downwind. You bear away to the edge of jibing. This increases speed by at least 30%.

Also we looked at the basic things, like tacking which surprised me because that is the first thing you learn. I soon found out that there was alot I could improve on.    

On the saturday evening we had a special dinner with the sponsors. We got to have dinner all together which was fun.

On the Sunday the sponsors from Proskin gave the National squaddies Proskins which keeps your body temperature stable, we got to meet a rugby hero Jason Robinson which was exciting. The Proskins kept me very warm and I slept in them as they said it helped your muscles recover from exercise.

On Sunday we fine tuned the technique’s we had been learning and had some fun races. It was easier because there was more wind, but quite gusty, at one point 11 boats capsized in a massive gust. I got sailor of the day on the sunday which i am very proud of.

 I would like to thank Bewl Valley and our coaches Jonathan, Dan, Tom and Libby . This weekend was so much fun and I’m looking forward to the next one.

By Joshua Boniface age (11)

RS Tera Sport National Squad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/health_and_fitness/4289704.stm

2011 is the first time this series has been run and it has been a great success with those that have done all the counting events being rewarded with a good overall result, the results have been run in a trial format as weighted average points for each counting event, meaning the higher the entry, the lower the number of points scored.

Thanks to Sutton Bingham, Hayling Island, Hill Head and Royal Lymington for including their open meetings in the series, all well organised and fun events.

Results

PRO (18 entries)

1. Tristan Bracegirdle (Castle Cove Sailing Club)

2. Anya Green (Hayling Island Sailing Club)

3. Yann Bracegirdle (Castle Cove Sailing Club)

4. George Catchpole (Waveney & Oulton Broad Sailing Club)

SPORT ( 69 entries)

1. Henry Jameson (Hayling Island Sailing Club)

2. Liam Willis (Lymington Town Sailing Club)

3. Jonny Tate (Royal Lymington Yacht Club)

4. Osian Bracegirdle (Caste Cove Sailing Club)

5. Alex Butler (Hayling Island Sailing Club)

6. Billy Vennis-Ozane (Hill Head Sailing Club

7. Joshua Bonoface (Hayling Island Sailing Club)

8. Rupert Jameson (Hayling Island Sailing Club)

Thanks to Hyde Sails for some great prizes and to Rachel Green who has been instrumental in organising the event.

Looking forward to 2012, same format, same scoring system, and possibly additional venues, watch this space.

On Saturday the fleet were split into 5 ability groups and set off in a good blow down the river to the open waters of the Solent for training in big wind and waves, most of the sailors managed to cope with the conditions for a couple of hours before the training team decided that conditions were too much for the less experienced sailors and brought a number ashore for hot showers and a welcome mug of hot chocolate.

The more experienced guys took part in a number of short races to hone their skills in preparation for the Open meeting on Sunday.

Considering the conditions it was great to see that we only had one bit of gear failure, Tristan Bs' mast decided it was too windy and sacrificed itself so it could have a lie down.

The weather forecast was set for even more breeze on Sunday morning building to 30 knots in the afternoon, the race management team took a decision to move the start times to earlier in the morning so as to try and get some racing in.

The fleet arrived with much anticipation of a great days racing, unfortunately it was not to be, as the anemometer hit 30 knots before the briefing, the race team took absolutely the right decision and abandoned  the event.

Unfortunately this is the second time that RLYC have had to call the RS Tera Open Meeting off for too much breeze, hopefully the new open meeting trophy will get its first airing in 2012, lets hope its 3rd time lucky.

Congratulations and thanks must go the Gina Bassett ably assisted by Fred and the team at Royal Lymington, she and they have put an enormous amount of effort and enthusiasm into organizing the event this year, we will be back in 2012 to enjoy the hospitality of RLYC again.

In 2008 Hill Head Sailing Club held the first RS Tera nationals, in this short time the class has grown exponentially, the race team and all involved at Hill Head have opened their eyes to the new youngsters in the line-up.

Commitment, joy to be on the water and inclusiveness are adjectives which spring to mind.

The club organised a training day on the Saturday  which attracted over 30 sailors, with sailing conditions sent from heaven; the only issue was seeing the mark flags flying in the sun-reflected wavelets. Dan Alldis, John Piatt, Charly Capon and Tracey Jacobs arranged some superb training exercises which saw some of the local and visiting sailors prosper with new found confidence. The chance to sail amongst a good sized fleet has an inspiring effect; the day was finished off with a number of mini races and a de-briefing.

Race day woke with only a whisper of wind and eyes were fixed upon the Rooster Sailing flag the race team willing it to fly a little fuller. The start was postponed and the race team kept on their toes and set a trapezoid course as the wind built. With the Pros starting first and a long first beat out into mid Solent the Pros made short shrift with the building wind. Brothers Yann and Tristan possibly chatting about local conditions gave them a 1,2 with the rest of the fleet close on their sterns. The sports set off with a great start, Liam Willis from Lymington, Joshua Boniface and Alex Butler carving out through the fleet on the first lap contesting hard,  with Alex keeping everything together and fine display of lee bowing to cross the line first. The finishing line had to be moved as the wind dropped to torment the sailors and the race team, the mid fleet being tested by a strong tide.

Some hasty mark moving and a shorter windward/ leeward course got proceedings underway. George Catchpole took a shine to this new course and worked hard at keeping an advantage over Josh Bakker. Sports were also raring to go on this new course, Billy Vennis Ozanne was on fire after finishing  4^th  with an OCS in the first race, flying up the first beat creating a commanding lead over  Ossian Bracegirdle and Henry Jameson to take local boat line honours.

3^rd Race saw the Pros with the line hotly contended and this time 1^st place was taken by Anya  Green with George on her heels and Luke Bailey with some great manoeuvring around the sport fleet on their beat. Sports with a hard fought start for committee boat end start was all clear, Henry, Alex and Billy contesting hard up the first beat; Billy rounded first and kept position to the finish first, followed closely by Henry and Alex.

With Tristan and George very close on points these two had all to play in the fourth and last race, George showing good consistency finishing third just pipping Tristan on points for overall victory. Very gracefully the Pros allowed all four races to have a new winner and Luke Bailey from Emsworth took line honours. Sports were just as close on points with Alex, Billy and Henry all up for an event win. Four OCS’s gives an idea of the pressure on the start, Alex getting a clean start along with Henry at the port end forged ahead. Alex’s consistency gave him the race and the event, followed by Billy one point behind and Henry one point further back. Commendation most go to all sailors with a 100% finish ratio this surely shows enjoyment and commitment .Local Sailor Gemma Ainscow received the Achievement  award sailing in a new model boat kindly loaned from RS sailing for the event.  Prizes sponsored by Rooster Sailing with tea and some tasty cakes finished a superb two day event. Thanks to all the volunteers at Hill Head Sailing club for the same commitment that the sailors gave and thanks to RS sailing and Rooster Sailing for sponsorship, look forward to seeing you and many more next year.

Full Results- 

HHSC Open Event - RS Tera Pro Fleet - Final Results

HHSC Open Event - RS Tera Sport Fleet - Final Results

On 15 and 16 October Ripon SC hosted the first of a series of Tera training sessions to be held in the north over the winter months.  Ripon now have a fleet of 22 Tera dinghies, and most of the home boats were out for the event, augmented with visitors from Sunderland YC, Derwent Reservoir SC and Yorkshire Ouse SC.  With coaching led by Jonathan Lewis, the National Squad Coach, and Brett Cockayne, who will be working with the Northern fleet from now on, the participants had 2 days of great sailing. 

The coaching on Saturday focused on boat handling skills, with the fleet learning to ‘Superman’ as they approached windward marks, developing their roll tacking skills and looking at start line tactics.  On Sunday the participants joined in the club racing, with a 75 minute pursuit race in the morning and two handicap races in the afternoon.  Jonathan and Brett provided on the water coaching and the fleet then reviewed their performance during the debriefing sessions.  There were some very tired, but happy sailors at the end of a brilliant two days!

The timetable for the remainder of the coaching is now being finalized and there is a great circuit of Tera Open meetings being developed for the North of England for 2012, including the inaugural Northern Championships which will be hosted by Ripon SC at the end of May.

For further information on this please get in touch with Chief Coach Jonathan Lewis or with Ripon SC’s Jennie Clark (commodore@ripon-sc.org.uk)

We will email more detailed notes to registered participants a few days before the event, but the provisional timetable is as follows:

Event Entry

You MUST register online before the event to take part in the Open or both days.  Unfortunately we cannot accept entries on the day as we are restricted in the numbers we can accept particularly on Saturday for the training day.

Entry for the training day on Saturday October 22nd will be closed at noon on Monday October 17th. Places are being limited to 35.  There are a few places left.

Entry for the race day on Sunday October 23rd will be closed on Friday October 21st.  There are spaces for 50.  This may be extended if the weather is looking favourable.

Provisional Event Timing

The training day on the Saturday will start with registration in the clubhouse between 08.30 and 09.30.  Parking for boats and trailers will be provided but parking for cars will need to be paid for (either in cash or by phone with a credit card).  The sailors briefing is at 10.00 on Saturday.  Bacon butties and snacks will be available for purchase in the morning but sailors should bring their own packed lunch which will be taken out on the water.   Lunch, drinks and snacks are available to purchase for parents and spectators upstairs in the bar area.  Hot and cold drinks, cakes and snacks will be provided for all sailors and helpers at the end of the training day. 

If you are a qualified rib driver and are willing to help (lunch will be provided) please contact Gina Bassett asap on gina@bassetts.me.uk.  

The racing day on the Sunday will start  registration between 08.00 and 09.00 and the sailors briefing at 09.45. Lunch will again be on the water.  We aim to complete at least 3 races.   Again hot and cold drinks, cakes and snacks will be provided for all competitors after the racing.  The prizegiving - for both the Lymington Open and the Southern Traveller Series will take place after  tea.

Due to european holiday dates, the RS Tera World Championships at Lake Iseo, Italy , have been now confirmed as being held from the 4th August to the 10th August 2012.

Sat 4th & Sun 5th - Registration & Practice

Mon 6th till-Fri 10th - Race Days (with possible lay day)

The IRSTCA and the host club, ANS, are in the process of negotiating discounted group rates for hotel, chalet and camping accommodation.  These discounted group rates that should reduce costs for all will be published together with detailed information of the event within the following week."

Y & Y National Championships Attendance League Table

2008 63rd

2009 39th

2010 15th

2011 10th

Where will the class be in 2012?, next target 100 entries!!!

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/classes/?s=44

With the Endeavour trophy taking place further down the river, it is fair to say that ding dong battles were being watched at both ends of the River Crouch. Day 1 gave temperatures akin to a winter's squad weekend with woolly hats being the order of the day during the fresh force 3 to 4 breeze. With the tide turning around 2pm the race officer was able to give the competitors a taste of both aspects of flood and ebb river sailing.

In the Sports it was Alex Butler and Henry Jameson exchanging blows on day one with 2 race wins each and Henry having the edge with two seconds to Alex's 2 and a 3 at close of play. Daniel Lewis was keeping them both honest although having to keep a watchful eye on Billy Vennis Ozanne who was racking up 4th's and 5th's.

Day 2 dawned with similar breeze but with the sun out raising temperatures and spirits for another hard day on the water. Alex Butler raced out of the blocks with 2 wins leaving Henry in his wake. Henry fought back with a win by the biggest margin of the weekend to leave it all to play for in the last and deciding race. Behind, Billy had clearly thought about the conditions overnight and took the contest for 3rd overall to Daniel with 3, 2, 3. This also left it open for the decider. With Alex and Henry watching each other on the start, Sam Doble Thomson broke away into the lead. Alex got control of Henry and covered up the first beat, while Billy was edging Daniel. By the finish, Alex had stormed through the fleet for his fifth race win and the title, giving Henry the runner up prize. Sam had fought hard to keep Billy at bay, who in turn was covering Daniel and the this was enough to give Billy 3rd overall by one point.

In the Pro's it was all about the established sailors fending off those who have moved up from the Sport fleet. James Hutton Penman, defending National Champion was taking on Will Taylor, current World Champion, with the added advantage of sailing on home waters. In the end it was a case of local knowledge and shrewd tactics over coming speed through the water that gave James the title with a race to spare. Greg Kelly  ( Isle of  Man ) competing for the first time in a Pro and on strange waters showed his talent with a creditable 4th overall, being pipped to 3rd by local RS Feva rockstar crew, Stirling Taylor ( don't ask where his helm finished ! ). Battle of the girls was won by Rebecca Lewis ( 6th overall ), however just behind are a number of sailors looking forward to the Sqaud sessions over the winter to close the gap.

The biggest effort shown over the weekend was given by Abi Davies, along with her 3 children competing, fetching and carrying for her husband who has his leg in plaster, Abi ensured that the hospitality shown was second to none and set the benchmark for future events.

Along with the race officer and the hordes of volunteers, the RS Tera Class Association can sleep soundly knowing that the venue for next years Nationals is in capable hands.

Results can be found at http://www.burnhamsc.org/event_detail.asp?type=Results&id=997

Coach

Sunday 16 October 2011

Hill Head Sailing Club RS TERA OPEN MEETING   

Sponsored by Rooster Sailing with prizes

Entry fee:     £15.00 per boat

3 races - back to back

Briefing time:   11:45 hours

1st warning signal: 12:40 hours

for more details: www.hillheadsc.org.uk/opens.htm 

All available forms-

Notice of Race,

Open meeting Declaration form & Medical form Entry forms 

Great view of the race area and the Solent looking towards Cowes

From Club House Balcony, food and refreshments available

This event is part of the Southern Traveller Series 2011

Details can be found below re start times etc and with the winds looking like Force 4 and above the racing should be as fast and furious as ever.

With entries currently in excess of 40 and competitors from the South Coast and the Isle of Man, will we see a performance worthy of promotion?

Coaches will also be on hand to offer support and advice if needed.

However, highlight of the weekend will be the Championship Dinner on Saturday evening with celebrity speakers galore.

See you there.....

Coach

I am trying to pull together a library of RS Tera photographs for use in publicity material

If anyone has any great shots please could you send them to chairman@rstera.org

Many thanks

SCORING

Count 3 best results, working out points by places as a percentage of entry

i.e        

 Finish 6^th at Sutton Bingham from an entry of 15 gives 40 Points

Finish 38^th at The Southerns from an entry of 50 gives 76 Points

Finish 4^th at Hill Head from an entry of 30 gives  13 Points

Finish 15^th at RLYC from an entry of 40 gives 38 Points

So series would be 40, 76, 13, 38 total 167 Points, less discard 91 Points

If only 2 events are completed then additional result is 150%, giving a score of 150 points

i.e        

Finish 6^th at Sutton Bingham from an entry of 15 gives 40 Points

Finish 38^th at The Southerns from an entry of 50 gives 76 Points

So series would be 40, 76, 150 total 266 Points, No discard 266 Points

Prizes will be awarded depending on the number of entries in each fleet, but as a minimum

will be the first three, and will be presented at the RLYC event, after racing.

Entry fee of £30

includes championship dinner on Saturday night and pasta lunch on both days for sailors.

Free camping available.

 If you would like to join us then please visit the

Burnham Sailing Club website 

http://www.burnhamsc.org/index.asp 

where you will find a combined NOR and Sailing Instructions 

http://www.burnhamsc.org/event_detail.asp?type=Documents&id=986

and the event entry form

http://www.burnhamsc.org/event_detail.asp?type=Documents&id=985 

This open meeting is designed for all abilities and to be parent friendly. The planned race area will be as close to the pontoon and bar as possible for easy spectating.

For further information please call Abi Davies on            01621 786416        or email abi_davies@btopenworld.com 

However, these regions may be finding themselves with a new set of sailors to battle it out with at next years events.

I fear that we may be seeing the wakening of a sleeping giant. Tera sailors in the North East ( Ripon SC, Derwent, Sunderland and Rutland ) are gathering themselves together ready for battle.

Behind the scenes, entusiastic parents are frantically putting plans in place to support their charge !

Rumours of a Northern Development Squad, local open meetings and a Northern Championship are flying around, so I will let you know more when they are confirmed.

Having had the pleasure of coaching these sailors please be advised that they are a talented bunch.

Coach