UK SKUD 18 Inland Championships 2012
Alex Hovden
Championships for 2012 in conjunction with Rutland Sailing Club.
As part of our committment towards supporting and encouraging world
class competition, we wish to inform the international community of SKUD
sailors that everyone is welcome to join us for this and other class run
events.
The event is to take place on the weekend of Saturday 14th and Sunday
15th of July, at Rutland Sailing Club in the East Midlands of England.
The clubhouse boasts excellent disabled facilities along with several
cheap accessible bunkhouse style accomodation rooms. The water itself is
one of the premier sailing venues in the country, with approximately
3000 acres of sailable water. Conditions are similar to that of estuary
sailing.
Competitors who join us for this event would be encouraged to remain at
Rutland for one week further, to participate in the RYA Sailability
Multi-Class regatta from Friday 20th to Saturday 22nd. This is
Sailability's flagship event that brings together all of the disabled
sailing classes for a weekend of fleet racing. Invited classes are:
Access Classes, Neo 495, 2.4mR, Challenger, SKUD, Stratos, Yeoman,
Kinsman and finally the Artemis. There are regular opportunities
throughout this weekend for individuals to try out different classes.
The notices of race for these two events are expected to be published
very soon, however for now the committee would appreciate expressions of
interest from international teams so that we can begin to plan our
resources. Entry information will be requested at a later date and can
be supplied by e-mail.
SKUD teams going to the Paralympics are reminded that WPNSA is closed
completely from 14th July. Why not join us at Rutland for two weekends
of close racing before heading off to your respective training venues
and engaging with your training programmes. These likely to be the last
fleet racing events before the games start appoximately 5 weeks later.
We hope to see you in July at Rutland!
Alex Hovden (Events co-ordinator) on behalf of the UK SKUD 18 Class.
Alex Hovden
Further to my previous e-mail concerning the UK Nationals, I am happy to
be able to attach the NOR and entry form for this event.
The secretary of the class, Judi Figgures and hopefully myself will be
racing at Sail for Gold and you can hand entry forms to either of us at
this event and we will pass them on to the sailing club.
Interested teams' attention is drawn to point number 13 and information
about the Multiclass regatta which takes place one week later, also at
Rutland.
On behalf of the organising authorities, I look forward to welcoming you
to Rutland for these events
Just one note for David Staley, could you possibly put this information
on the international class website please? Same to Ron Sawford with the
national class website?
Many thanks
Alex Hovden
UK SKUD Class events co-ordinator