For three of our class yachts in 2016/17 we have introduced Winter Series Racing.
These are the Snowflake Series for 6M+ Yachts :- the intention is to give those of us who have six metre yachts the opportunity to get them out over the winter period and keep sailing them whilst being inclusive of our other members by allowing the DF95 and IOM owners to come along and join in the racing, our experience in the past has been that these three yacht types sit reasonably well on the water together all being around one metre in water line length. It is perhaps almost inevitable that we will start to gravitate towards using larger yacht types given the expanse of water that sits in front of us at Hollowell sailing Club.
SNOWFLAKE SIX METRE+ SERIES
HOLLOWELL SC DATES:- R1 12TH NOVEMBER 2016 - R2 31ST DECEMBER 2016 - R3 7TH JANUARY 2017 - 28TH JANUARY 2017
HOLLOWELL SC DATES:- R1 12TH NOVEMBER 2016 - R2 31ST DECEMBER 2016 - R3 7TH JANUARY 2017 - 28TH JANUARY 2017
The Icicle Series for Wee Nips:- As the majortiy of our members have or are building a Wee Nip it is easy to understand why we have included this one class design in our winter series program, with an Inter- Club competition being introduced for the Medal Series racing in 2017, hopefully this initiative will allow our skippers to practice and improve their racing ski;;s when sailing in larger fleets.
ICICLE WEE NIP SERIES
HOLLOWELL SC DATES:- R1 5TH NOVEMBER 2016 - R2 3RD DECEMBER 2016 - R3 14TH JANUARY 2017 - 11TH FEBRUARY 2017
HOLLOWELL SC DATES:- R1 5TH NOVEMBER 2016 - R2 3RD DECEMBER 2016 - R3 14TH JANUARY 2017 - 11TH FEBRUARY 2017
The Frostbite Series for Footys:- the Fat Boy design has become the prefered model for Abington Park MYC members with most of our skippers building their own model, with the club having such a prominence within the Footy class and with the opportunity for our skippers to sail their Footies at six club hosted events in 2017 it seemed only right to include this class in our winter series calander.
FROSTBITE FOOTY SERIES
HOLLOWELL SC DATES:- R1 19TH NOVEMBER 2016 - R2 17TH DECEMBER 2016 - R4 18TH FEBRUARY 2017
ABINGTON PARK:- R3 17TH JANUARY 2017 - OPEN
HOLLOWELL SC DATES:- R1 19TH NOVEMBER 2016 - R2 17TH DECEMBER 2016 - R4 18TH FEBRUARY 2017
ABINGTON PARK:- R3 17TH JANUARY 2017 - OPEN