I have
noticed several E-Boats around the Solent and Poole harbour and I am sure they
need to lead a more active lifestyle. As a crew we are not very experienced at
racing we are going to have a go this season, is anyone else up for the
challenge?Races Round the Island, Clontarf "Nationals"
AGM t.b.a.
Netherlands Summer Event
I have
noticed several E-Boats around the Solent and Poole harbour and I am sure they
need to lead a more active lifestyle. As a crew we are not very experienced at
racing we are going to have a go this season, is anyone else up for the
challenge?
Picture (right):
Esprit rounding the Needles RTI 2003.
Let me know if you are interested malcolm.ladd@bigfoot.com .
We now have Adam Harvey acting as local Fleet Captain for the South Coast of England. Feel free to contact Adam by e-mail: egret.175@googlemail.com
Round the Island Race
Saturday 20th June 2009
We’re rounding up E-Boats for a show of force at the 2009 JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race on 20 June. Gathering on the afternoon of the 19th in Shepards Wharf Marina in Cowes and followed by a few drinks and probably a curry or pizza. Start this year is 0850 so we’ll all get a lay in and a bacon sandwich. Warning – once you start entering this race you’ll want to keep on sailing it every year! A great day out and will be followed by more social ashore. Don’t forget to use your tankard for your 1st drink once ashore! Info at:
www.roundtheisland.org.uk and www.shepardswharfmarina.co.uk/
Adam
Irish National E-Boat Championships
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th July 2009
We held our first Irish National E-Boat Championships in July 2004, had successful events in 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008 and are looking forward to our next Nationals in July 2009. The Irish E Boat National Championships will again be held in Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club this year. The event will take place between 10th – 12th July and the format will remain the same with 6 races (mixture of Olympic and W/L courses) over 3 days.
The 2008 National Champion was Pat O’Neill sailing E 127 “OctopussE”.
We now have a total of 28 boats here with 19 in CY&BC and 7 in Skerries and 2 spare boats.
The racing continues to provide great enjoyment at club level and our Frostbite Series in CY&BC had 12 boats, which ensured some very close racing encounters.
We will be holding the “Liffey Challenge” again in 2009 in August and the “Lambay Island Race” will again be raced in June.
Ray Wall. E-Boat class captain in CYBC
Dublin
e-mail: ray_wall@eircom.net
Webmasters Note: Report of the previous years events can be found at Results.
The UK Club is going through a bit of a slack time at the moment, however the treasurer, Angus Stewart is trying to resurrect matters and bring some life back into the association. Any news I hear will be posted on receipt.
There are a now a number of active E-Boat owners sailing in the Netherlands. Summer event have been arranged by / for them. The dates for this year can be obtained from Ernst Visser e.boat@graphicanswers.nl. Ernst has supplied me with a couple of pages for the web site so have a look at Netherlands News.
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