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BARNT GREEN SAILING CLUB - REPORT AND RESULTS FOR THE 2009 CHARITY RACE FOR SAILABILITY
The Charity Race had a total of 25 boats entered, including 3 sailboarders (who started before the main dinghy fleet in their own race.) The dinghies all started at the same time for a 1 hour race and with the Portsmouth Yardstick to calculate the handicap for the various boat speeds. The funds raised and totalling £145.00 will be sent to RYA Sailability which provides disabled people, of all ages, the opportunity to experience sailing and the freedom this gives to the participants. Results of top three placings follow...Click image to go to gallery.
Seniors: Dinghies: 1st Rob Lennox & Charli Lennox (Lark), 2nd Andrew Paton (Solo), 3rd Kelsey Suggitt & Josh Stuart (Lark).
Sailboards: 1st Chris Pack, 2nd Julian Barnes. DNF (gear failure) Christian Barnes.
Juniors: 1st Hannah Lennox (Laser), 2nd Donald Pickworth (Optimist) 3rd Jessica Pickworth (Cadet).
The winners, Hannah Lennox - Junior. Rob and Charli Lennox - Senior. Chris Pack - Sailboard (Sorry Chris, the only pic. I have!)
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Notice of Race
SUNDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2009
This event is planned to be held at
3.00pm
but may be delayed,
subject to the final race of the
Entry fee £5.00 per Senior boat /board
£2.00 per Junior boat
(17 years or under)
This will be followed by a BBQ & the 174 Club Draw & Social with Weatheroak Ale (All gone! Drunk by the Under 21 Enterprise sailors the night before)
For further details contact:
Gordon Padmore on 01562 730481 or email: gpadmore@opening-doors.org.uk
The following information has been lifted from the RYA website;
RYA Sailability offers people who think they can’t even get on a boat – let alone sail one, the chance to achieve the self reliance that sailing can bring and feel the exhilaration of being on the water.
Sailing is one of the very few sports in which able-bodied sailors and disabled sailors can participate on equal terms. Imagine the thrill of sailing for people who can feel and hear but have no sight, or of sailing a boat at speed even though they can’t walk, or of joining in a sport where deafness doesn’t matter.
RYA Sailability already helps make these dreams a reality and continues to do so by encouraging and supporting people with disabilities to take up the sport and facilitating sites to develop sailing opportunities.
We hope you will take part in this event, for which a substantial prize is up for grabs and that you all enjoy the day – You could even talk me into running an early evening Barbeque afterwards!!!
Gordon Padmore
Vice Commodore