50+ boats sailed the 1st Wednesday Evening Race of the season Sailing Report - John Smalley, Vice-Commodore The John Jarrett trophy and Commodores Cup were sailed in a very light, basically Northerly breeze. Our Race Officer, Nick Martindale was able to start the morning, all-in Handicap from the Club start line – no mean [...]

Coming soon: the Wednesday Evening Series! Sailing Report - John Smalley, Vice-Commodore After the wind chill, cold and snow curtailed their training weekend, our Fireball visitors enjoyed a fairly gentle Northerly breeze for their open meeting. The race team managed to complete the scheduled 7 race series over two days. With the shifting wind, the [...]

Working Party braving the cold on 17-Mar-18 Sailing Report, 24 March Can you believe we were afflicted by another Beast from the East last weekend? Offending the Russians meant they turned the fans on full blast. With wind chill at -8 on Saturday, the enthusiastic group of 14 Fireballs, assembled for their training weekend, did [...]

The Handicap Fleet battling for a favoured starboard end start on 25 February Sailing Report, 9 March The unseasonal burst of Winter meant the cancellation of everything at Chew last weekend. Like me, I hope you dusted off those long stored sledges and enjoyed some exhilarating activity that didn’t involve pulling on a drysuit! [...]

Fireball Training and Open Meeting coming up in March Sailing Report, 23-Feb-18 At last, my prayers were answered and we had a decent forecast for last Sunday’s Class Race Day. The result was a good turnout with almost 40 boats coming to the start line; it was like Frostbite series of old! There was [...]