This is the place to find all the latest news and last minute
information for members
This early in the new season this page currently provides a taste of what happens at RSC over a typical season
24.11.07 Laying up Supper/Prize Giving was
held at the Holiday Inn in Harrogate and well attended at
this new venue with 105 members & partners present for
an excellent meal followed by a short speech from Commodore
Tony Cawood, prize-giving with prizes presented by Sailing
Secretary Alan Jones & partner Cathryn Britton followed
by the raffle. Thanks must go to Vice Commodore Richard Gegg
for arranging the venue and the Social sub-committee and everyone
else involved for the hard work in organising this memorable
final social event of the 50th anniversary year. Pictures
here...
14.11.07 Sailing Forum
A well attended meeting of members talked through ideas for
improving things next season. Hot topics were RO training,
to improve course setting and race management, the format
of commodores weekend, the integration of juniors into club
racing via the Volvo series, fleet status and fleet captains.
Draft minutes here...
14.07.07 YHYSA Final Event - An excellent
days racing, starting off overcast but gradually improving
throughout the day. The event results are here...
& the full series results can be found here....
Yachts & Yachting report here...
07.07.07 National 12 Big Summer
Event & Club Barbeque - A very successful weekend
with strong winds on Saturday providing some very spectacular
racing and plenty of spills, breakages and some near sinkings!
Sunday produced calmer conditions, but still provided good
sailing. Pictures here...
& results here....
Yachts
& Yachting Report.
23.06.07 50th Anniversary Regatta. A successfully
event with over 60 competitive entries. Brisk conditions on
Saturday gave way to extremely light conditions on Sunday
leading to shortened races. Photographs here...
& results here...
Yachts
& Yachting Report.
16.06.07
Car Treasure Hunt -
Cancelled
due to severe flooding on some parts of the route!! This
event will be run later in the season when a space in the
calendar can be found, watch this space.
10.06.07 Methuselah & Junior Trophy events
were run on a frustratingly windless day which saw burgees
spinning round on the masts as what little breeze there was
became very shifty. Results can be found here...
09.06.07 Sailing Tryout Day. This was a
great success with a really good turnout and lots of boat
swapping going on! The Commodore was even seen in a number
of modern performance single and double handers but concluded
that the Enterprise was still the one for him!.
Photographs here....
03.06.07 Cowie Trophy, Topper Trophy & Mirror
Rosebowl results can be found here...
26.05.07 10 Hour Endurance Race, was a
great success, 8 teams, 34 participants and a good days racing.
Conditions were fresh in the morning, dropping off a little
in the afternoon and finally dying at around 19:00 coinciding
with the end of the race. Social barbeque followed. Thanks
should go for the efforts of the catering team in providing
the food for the evening. Results of the race can be found
here....
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12.05.07 Commodores Reception |
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13 of the club's former commodores
gather together with many key figures and former members
from the club's history to celebrate 50 years of sailing,
friendship and happy memories. |
21.04.07 Topper Open Meeting was a great
success, 26 boat turnout, 12 from RSC. Surprisingly consistent
wind force and direction provided near ideal conditions and
very competitive racing. Katy Shepherd retained
the 'Top Hat' trophy, narrowly beating Oliver Wright with
the results for the top places very close indeed. Special
mention must go to Dave Gebhard who achieved 3rd place despite
it being his first time ever in a Topper. Club results are
here. The series
results (when posted) can be accessed from the Results page.
Even photographs can be viewed here
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14.04.07
RS200 Open Meeting. Light airs meant that the
racing was rather subdued. Nevertheless, three Windward/Leeward
courses were run after an initial postponement which
provided some good competition. Results can be found
here. |
28.03.07 Champion of Champions Trophy &
'Others' 2006 re-run. Blustery conditions caused
challenging sailing. in the first two races, calming down
a bit by the third race. The results can be seen here.
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