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Event 2
West Kirby
Saturday 28 June 2008
Winning Team
West Kirby Warriors
Windsurf Magazine sponsored team
WEST KIRBY HOME IN ON VICTORY
West Kirby Warriors hosted the second event of the RYA’s Team15 (T15) inter-club series on Saturday 28th June at Hollingworth. T15 is the nationwide network of windsurfing clubs for youngsters of up to age 15.
Team Astbury matched the hosts by fielding a full strength side, bringing the maximum number of young surfers, 15, to West Kirby to do battle. With the other three teams, the Manley MereKatz, Hollingworth Hunters and Windermere Rufwinds, there were a total of 41 kids on the water, making an exciting spectacle especially at the starts and at the gybe marks.
Ideal weather of medium, steady winds greeted the five teams, producing fast and furious racing, as the youngsters hooked on to their rigs and planed away.
Biggest class was the 3.5 meter boards with thirteen competitors. Oliver Bradley Baker, at age 8 the second youngest in the class, showed that youth was no barrier to success, taking four out of the six races to win his class for the West Kirby Warriors.
His team mate Tom Coldham did even better in the 4.5m class, winning all six races to take that class. The pattern of Warriors dominating proceedings on their home waters continued with emphatic wins in the 5.5m and 6.8m classes, taken by Oliver Bradley Baker and Charlie Lloyd with five wins each.
Joash Knight delivered the coup de grace to the visiting teams, with six wins to take the 6.8m Techno class. The Warriors had won all five classes, to take their second event this year and show they will be the ones to beat this year.
Team Astbury, who were National champions last year, showed their potential with second places in three of the classes, through Jack Connolly in 4.5metres, Richard Wardle in 6.8metres, and Jack Bailey in 6.8m Technos. On their home waters at the next event these young windsurfers will be determined to go one better.
For Manley MereKatz, Rebecca Thompson took second place in the popular 3.5m class, and a number of youngsters who had only just started windsurfing competed well in this class, for instance Ben Stone (Warriors) and Georgina Leigh Jones (Astbury), who had both started windsurfing only four weeks ago.
Third event in the series will be at Astbury on 19th July.
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!
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Courses are currenlty being
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(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