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Event 1
Axbridge
Saturday 28 June 2008
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Home team off to flying start in youth windsurfing contest
The region’s young windsurfers had a cracking start to their RYA Team15 (T15) inter-club racing season last weekend, when local team Axbridge Animals beat off stiff competition from the SCOEC Screamers from South Cerney and the Croft Farm Flyers at a downwind slalom event at the Bristol Corinthian Yacht Club.
The winning team included no fewer than three members of one family – Georgina (11), Isabelle (9) and Alexsander Savage (12), from Weston Super Mare, and two members of another - Harriet (12) and Oliver Whiteley (13). Alexsander put in a particularly impressive performance at his first-ever T15 event, which saw over thirty participants showing off their impressive windsurfing skills. Joe Barnes (12) was commended as the Best Newcomer, having completed all his races after just three weeks of windsurfing!
The weather was cloudy and dry with a cross onshore wind that was ideal for beach starting and slalom racing. The races became more and more competitive as the seasoned sailors got back into their stride after the winter break, and confidence grew in those new to T15. The team coach of the SCOEC Screamers, Simon Holloway, commented: “It was brilliant. Everybody enjoyed themselves and did really well.”
The other Axbridge Animals were:
Piers Sherriff (12)
Jessica Rycroft (12)
Indi Heaslip (14)
Harry Page (14)
B Al Martin (13)
James Bennett (14)
Rosie Hodgson (15)
This was an exciting first round to what will undoubtedly be an extremely close-fought competition for the title of Regional Champions, and an opportunity to compete in the National T15 Champions Cup in October.
We are the Champions!
West Kirby Warriors
T15 Champions 2008
Congratulations!
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Team15
Coach Courses
T15 Coach-Red courses
will now be known as
Racing Instructor Courses
T15 Coach-Freestyle courses
will change to T15 Freestyle Coach!
Check below for course dates.
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Courses are currenlty being
organised by RDOs.
More dates soon.
If your T15 club
can get together 4 instructors
we can run a
course at your club!
Contact:
gina.lindholm@rya.org.uk
(scroll down for other courses you have missed)
For information
(previous courses in 2008)
Mount Batten Centre - Plymouth
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 27/28 September 2008
Closing date: 5 September
Cancelled: lack of candidates
Lakes Leisure - Windermere
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 30/31 August 2008
Closing date: 15 August
Fully booked
James Hamilton Heritage Park - Glasgow
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 30/31 August 2008
Closing date: 15 August
Cancelled: lack of candidates
Gwent Adventures - Wales
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 9/10 August 2008
Closing date: 25 July
5 candidates on course
Grafham Water Centre - Cambridgeshire
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 5/6 July 2008
Closing date: 30 June
Spaces available
6 candidates on course
Wimbleball Lake - Somerset
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek course: 3/4 July 2008
Closing date: 30 June
4 candidates on course
Roadford Lake - Okehampton
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek Course: 4/5 June 2008
Organised by South West Lakes Trust
Fully booked
Carsington Watersports - Derbyshire
Course type: Freestyle
Weekend Course: 3/4 May 2008
Fully booked
Carsington Watersports - Derbyshire
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek Course: 1/2 May 2008
6 candidates on course
Mountbatten Centre - Plymouth
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend Course: 12/13 April 2008
Cancelled: lack of candidates
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ADOPT-A-BEACH
The Green Blue is an environmental awareness initiative by the British Marine Federation and the Royal Yachting Association. One of its aims is to educate and promote the sustainable use of coastal and inland waters by watersports participants.
Some of the initiatives have a relevance to windsurfers - especially in achieving cleaner seas and beaches.
Adopt-a-Beach is definitely relevant to T15ers, which is a Marine Conservation Society project supported by the Green Blue.
Check out what parts of the Green Blue are relevant to you