Dinghies and Day Boats

RACING

Being tidal, racing starts at variable times - generally between 10am and 15.00 pm on Sundays (Saturdays being reserved for training and junior racing). Most races are committee boat starts and finishes in the harbour, unless starts are early (club line start) or racing takes place in Hayling Bay. Although being tidal makes for start time constraints, it does mean that we usually have the full expanse of the harbour available to us, allowing us to race over old style Olympic courses (triangles and sausages) with either two short races or one longer race. Otherwise racing is either round the harbour buoys or in Hayling Bay (leaving on the ebb and returning on the flood) –with bar hours set appropriately! Currently starts are divided between fast and slow handicap, though within these there is a substantial Finn fleet of over 20 boats (the largest in the country), a growing Contender fleet and a popular Solo fleet. We have yet to establish two person fleets, Laser 2000 or Wayfarer being contenders for a slow fleet and RS 200 or 400 for the fast fleet – but any active and committed fleet would be welcome.

Please refer to the club programme for race dates, start times and tides. Please note that you will need Adobe for some of the following pages, as they are in PDF format. This will allow you to print them in the same format. The pages may take over 30 seconds to load. Please use the browser arrows to navigate back to this page.

Club racing information