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Class Captain : Richard Ash  Tel : 01562 882792      EMAIL   

Our 2009 Solo Open meeting is on Saturday 4th April, poster advert' here,     click here or here  to visit the Solo Class site pages.

2008 "events" follow....

Click the image for an enlargement of Tim Joinson

Our 2008 Solo Open meeting was on Saturday 5th April, click here or here  to visit the Solo Class site pages.

 Club member Bob Suggitt # 3845 was the highest placed Barnt Greener in 4th place.

Barnt Green Solo Open Meeting 5th April 2008   Nineteen helms from twelve clubs entered Barnt Green Solo Open Meeting in the Midland Area Traveller Series. On a cold grey morning with a Brisk NNW wind Chris Brown 4861 (RYA) lead throughout the first race. Stuart Hydon 4844 (Shustoke) lost his second place to Colin Newton 4336 (Staunton Harold) and Bob Suggitt 3845 (Barnt Green) held fourth.   After lunch the wind shifted a couple of points to the east giving a longer beat and fast planning reaches for the second race. Chris Brown, Stuart Hydon and Colin Newton lead the fleet by a distance for the whole race taking first second and third. Ian Harridge 4833 (Nantwich) had a close race with Neil Wilkinson 4578 (Shustoke) who took over the fourth place from the third of four rounds.   To the left : Hannah Showell 4843 planing ahead of Farren Goding and Nick Thornton.   Photography by Richard Wallace.  Gallery here

Here is a little information about the Solo

“The National Solo is a classic, one-design, single-handed dinghy. Designed by Jack Holt in 1956, the Solo remains a popular dinghy, sailed at many clubs in the UK, Holland and Australia.

Originally designed in wood, competitive boats are now widely available in Foam Reinforced Plastic (FRP) or composite construction (FRP hull and wood deck) as well as wood.

2006 was the 50^th anniversary of the design, and the National Solo Class Association organised a series of events to celebrate.”   Vist the Solo website by clicking   here  ( Opens in a seperate window )

Brian Allen, 2007/8 Commodore

Autumn / Winter 2007 Class report. Our summer series could not have had a closer result with Bob and Brian each scoring the minimum 15 net points. The decider, under club rule 17, was only at the “Nth” discarded first place in favour of Bob. Congratulations to both. Well done runners up Tim (Joinson), Keith, Nick and a special cheer for Paul in his first season. Seventeen boats turned out over the 58 race series.  Solos had an enthusiastic turn out for the Wednesday pursuits and the result of the first series was a hat trick of Bob, Tim (Jobson), and Phil being first in for supper! Turning to the dark arts, this year’s handicaps were derived by giving the fastest nine helms from the 2005 and 2006 seasons yardsticks which added between one and six minutes per hour. All the others sailed off scratch. At the start of the season I thought the handicaps were really tough and at the end, – well it made surprisingly little difference! The reason; the series has so many discards it is scored for match racing rather than handicapping. Next year I will turn the screw and give scratch boats up to 10 minutes over the fastest boats of 2006/7 and I would welcome any feedback from the class on this. Well done prize winner Keith and runners up Nick and Paul.