Beaulieu River Sailing Club Regatta

Saturday 19^th August 2023

HW 1349hrs  3.5m (>3m 1220hrs to 1620hrs)

Start	Line	Class	Event
1030hrs		All	Registration
1100hrs		All	Briefing
Club Start
1200hrs	Club	Lasers	Challenge Cup 1
1210hrs	Club	Scows	Chichester Trophy 1
1220hrs 1220hrs	ClubClub	Toppers Junior Scows	Tew Salver 1 Gayner Scow Trophy 1
1300hrs		All	Picnic Lunch
1400hrs	Club	Lasers	Challenge Cup 2
1410hrs	Club	Scows	Chichester Trophy 2
1420hrs 1420hrs	ClubClub	Toppers Junior Scows	Tew Salver 2 Gayner Scow Trophy 2
1510hrs	Club	Scows	Chichester Trophy 3
Lepe Start
1440hrs	Lepe	Lasers	Challenge Cup 3
1520hrs	Lepe	Lasers	Challenge Cup 4
1550hrs	Lepe	Lasers	Challenge Cup 5

Beaulieu River Sailing Club Regatta

Sunday 20^th August 2023

HW 1422hrs 3.5m (>3m 1250hrs to 1640hrs)

Start	Line	Class	Event
1030hrs		All	Registration
1100hrs		All	Briefing
Club Start
1230hrs	Club	Lasers	Young’s Trophy 1
1240hrs	Club	Scows	Commodore’s Trophy 1
1250hrs 1250hrs	ClubClub	Toppers Junior Scows	Tew Salver 3 Gayner Scow Trophy 3
1330hrs		All	Picnic Lunch
1430hrs	Club	Lasers	Young’s Trophy 2
1440hrs	Club	Scows	Commodore’s Trophy 2
1450hrs 1450hrs	ClubClub	Toppers Junior Scows	Tew Salver 4 Gayner Scow Trophy 4
1540hrs	Club	Scows	Commodore’s Trophy 3
Lepe Start
1510hrs	Lepe	Lasers	Young’s Trophy 3
1540hrs	Lepe	Lasers	Young’s Trophy 4
1610hrs	Lepe	Lasers	Young’s Trophy 5
1645hrs 1730hrs		All All	Tea & Cakes Prize Giving

We look forward to welcoming sailors, volunteers and other non-sailing members at the BRSC annual Regatta on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 August at Needs Ore.  The forecast is predicting moderate southerly wind conditions on both days so we should have some fun sailing.

Registration for those wishing to sail will be at 1030hrs on both days.  There will be a short briefing with racing starting at 1200hrs on Saturday with Gerard Downes, Miranda Knowles and Tom Karsten on the platform and 1230hrs on Sunday with Ginna Gayner, David and Alison Moore-Gwyn and Jay Devonshire running the show.  Please go to the website https://brsc.site to see the full programme and volunteer rota.  And bring a picnic for lunch.

For those sailing, please make sure your boats are sea-worthy and remind yourself of the sailing rules.
BRSC General Sailing Rules:  https://brsc.site/wp-content/u…

This year there will be 5 x laser races with 1 discard and 3 x scow races on both days competing for the Challenge Cup, Chichester Trophy, Young’s Trophy and Commodore’s Trophy respectively.  We are also planning 4 x topper races over the 2 days with 2 discards competing for the Tew Salver.  We are also intending to introduce 4 x junior scow races, starting with the toppers, over the 2 days, again with 2 discards, competing for the brand new Gayner Scow Trophy.  Please make sure the junior sailors are aware as we’d love to encourage as many as we can to take part.

For those of you who are not planning to sail, please join us to be part of the occasion and bring a picnic lunch.  On the Sunday teas and cakes will be provided after racing and before Prize Giving which will take place at 1730hrs.  Please do bring a cake if you feel inclined.

Dogs are allowed at Needs Ore but must be kept on a lead at all times.  And remember to drive a a snail’s pace past the Needs Ore Cottages.

A massive thank you to all the volunteers who have offered to help make these days work. You know who you are!  And a special thank you to Sam van Holthe, Charles Nicholson, June Kirkman (or Andrew Duncan) and Ian Strathcarron for providing their boats as extra safety boats for the event.  Your boats can stay on the pontoon overnight on Saturday.

We look forward to seeing you for some fine competition and merriment and fingers crossed some decent summer weather.

JUNIOR SCOWS REPORT

Participants – Daisy Gittins, Imogen Maver, Lola McCafferty, Jake Mudie, Coco Nicholson, Eliza Sopher, James Thomas, Louis Warrillow

REPORT from Louis Warrillow

We all started Junior Sailing week with making our way up the river from Factory Fields to the wonderful garden of Oxleys. Having unfortunately already missed a day of sailing due to gusts of up to 40 knots, Victoria Bonham Carter wasted no time in teaching us the very basics of tacking to complex racing techniques – hot chocolate and biscuits kept us going strong so we could finally get out on the water.

Or we could have been on the water if it wasn’t for everyone’s gormlessness in rigging a scow, so after a little more help and explanations from Victoria we finally managed to get out sailing. This was definitely smoother for some and a lot rougher for others. The wind had been marginally growing while we were on dry land and 16 knots proved to be more than most could handle at this stage, so after going round a few marks, Victoria took the executive decision to bring us in, swap around the pairs and send us sailing again with a bit more knowledge of the wind.

This second sail was almost idyllic if it wasn’t for early gybesand near capsizes from a few. After that however it was truebliss, sailing up the river on one tack and then practicing racing each other back up wind – the first day came to anextremely successful end with a lot of lessons learnt.

The second day started with theory, dry gybe drills, flukey winds, a couple of races, rowing challenges which showed up a distinct lack of oarsmanship apart from Imogen Mavor and most importantly the day ended with ice creams all round.

Having lost the first day to high winds we thought we’d lose the third day also with forecasts again of up to 40 knots, but Victoria and the Junior sailing team were quite rightly determined to get us out on the water and what a great decision as it turned out to be the best day of the week with great sailing in high winds and learning how to ‘gently’ arrive back at the pontoon.

The last day finally gave us ideal conditions with a bit of sun and light winds. Everybody felt more confident in their scows and the races began in earnest with slow, yet competitive shouts of starboard which seemed to break the otherwise serene surroundings. After 6 races with helmsman changing after each race I managed to scrape through to twin the cup. 

Huge thanks to all who helped, especially Victoria with her unwaning enthusiasm and expert knowledge and Lucy Markby for helping us and organising everything.  Also to Peter Hayward-Broomfield and Peter Bettridge for ‘safety’ along  with Beattie, Nell and Phoebe and all the parent helpers.