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Covenham
Saturday 5 July 2008
Winning Team
Pugneys Pirates
Tushingham sponsored team
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Pugneys Pirates pick up the points in round two of Team15 windsurfing championship
A record number of young windsurfers from all over the North of England took on each other and the worst of the Humberside weather at Covenham Reservoir last weekend. Forty seven windsurfers, all 15 years old or under, collected at Covenham to take part in round two of the 2008 RYA Team15 Championships. The weather on Saturday was wild at first, causing real challenges especially for the younger sailors, but in the afternoon the sun came out and the lake gave some fantastic windsurfing conditions.
The current Team15 Regional Champions are the Covenham Cyclones and this event was their chance to defend their title on home waters. Things did not go totally to plan however and the top places in four out of the five classes went either to rivals Pugneys Pirates or the North Lincs Invaders.
Brothers Matthew (10) and Joshua (8) Carey from Halifax shone out among the strong Pugneys team, taking 1st and 2nd place overall in the 3.5m class; as did 15 year old Nick Durham, also from Pugneys, who won overall first place in the 6.8m class (winning three out of the five races – and coming second in the other two).
The Pugneys team did not have it all their own way however and the North Lincs Invaders fielded an equally strong team, winning the 4.5m class with 11 year old Ruben Lansley from Barton upon Humber and the 5.5m class with 11 year old Emma Laybourne from Barrow upon Humber. Emma’s 5.5m win was particularly well fought as 12 year old Robert York from Skegness (Covenham Cyclones) and 15 year old Abigail Wilson from Rotherham (Pugneys Pirates) put up some great resistance; all three of them swapping first, second and third places throughout the competition.
The Covenham home fleet dominated the 6.8m Techno class however, with first place going to 13 year old Kieran Burley from Cleethorpes (winning four out of the five races) and second place going to 12 year old Joe Dickinson from Covenham. All the winning sailors look like they have great futures ahead of them in Team15 and beyond.
“The competition is really close,” said Derrick Hall one of the event co-ordinators at the Covenham Cyclones. “All the teams can match each other for talented sailors. We have lost the edge slightly this year because some of our previous winners are now over sixteen, but some of the other teams have recently lost some of their older sailors too. This makes the competition even tighter.”
The next event in the four match series is again at Covenham, in a few weeks time on 31st August. The final event in the regional competition is at Pugneys Sailing Centre, Wakefield on 21st September. The club with the least points at the end of the series becomes the North Zone Team15 Champion Club and goes on to compete with all the other regional winners to become Team15 UK Champion Club 2008.
Registration deadline
18 September
for RYA Zone Championships
27/28 September 2008.
A must if you want to
try for a place in your Zone Squad
Register online now
Need a sail number?
tzaneen.mears@rya.org.uk
to be allocated your unique number.
Once you have the number
you need to purchase the
sticky-back digits from a
local chandler.
Win a board!
Help your T15 club
to win a Techno board & rig
by taking part in
T15 inter-club events.
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Every time your club enters
a team of 15 sailors,
(with at least two people
sailing on Technos)
into your zone
T15 inter-club events,
then your club goes
into a prize draw.
Each T15 club therefore
has up to 4 chances
of winning the prize.
The draw will take place
at the Champions Cup
in October.
Tell your mates & all
sign up to the team.
The events are great fun
& your windsurfing
will really inprove.
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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.
Have you registered yet?
Click here for pre-requisites.
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