Salcombe Yacht Club Regatta, Salcombe Yawl Demasted!

This years Salcombe Yacht Club Regatta has been a series of strong winds with today (13th August) seeing all sailing cancelled and winds in excess of 45 mph!

This Salcombe Yawl unfortunately got into trouble on the least windy day!!!!



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Mad Solo in Salcombe Yacht Club Regatta!

Crazy Solo in strong winds at Salcombe.



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Strong Winds for start of Salcombe Yacht Club Regatta Week...

The first day of Salcombe Yacht Club Regatta week saw winds gusting to a force 7!

In all there were 3 or 4 snapped Salcombe Yawl masts and too many capsizes to count!



Great viewing but I would imagine slightly scary and very knackering sailing...

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Salcombe Solo Sailors Show of Force at Nationals!

The Solo National Champs are underway in Torbay with the Salcombe contingent putting in a strong showing. After 2 races we had 4 in the top 10 and 5 in the top 20! A pretty impressive start I think you will agree.

This shows the strength of Salcombe sailing and how the difficult Salcombe conditions require a tremendous array of skills.

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Salcombe Yacht Club Regatta Gains Top Name Sponsor

Salcombe Yacht Club regatta week is this year being sponsored by Henri Lloyd. This in name alone seems to make the regatta sound like a bigger occasion than it is...which can only be a good thing, plus; regatta week competitors will get a 10% discount at the Henri Lloyd Sailing Store, Salcombe and at local chandlery, The Salcombe Boat Store throughout regatta week. That's a pretty good deal if you ask me!

Lets hope this begins to reinvigorate the regatta which once was huge, sporting large Mirror Dinghy (we regularly used to get the national and world champ coming to Salcombe) and Topper classes along with a full Enterprise class, as opposed to the domination of the mighty Salcombe Yawl over the past few years. Salcombe is one place that will really test your sailing skills but also infuriatingly negate them at others.....ever been 10 mins clear of the field only to be caught up and overtaken at Snapes or Ditch End?????

Writing this has made me quite excited...almost time for the annual jaunt in my Laser!!!

Lasers in Salcombe

Lasers in Salcombe
Originally uploaded by oo.devon

ooops....not the best place to capsize!

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Great Sailing for Solos and 12's In Salcombe

Well our late summer continues on and was able to provide some great light wind sailing conditions in Salcombe for the Solos and National 12's.
Results for Salcombe’s final Open Meeting of 2007...