Spelthorne Sports Club of the Year
Reports about member successes and events that have taken place at Littleton Sailing Club
A fun evening of Skittles – come along and challenge your fellow sailors to a game. There will be seven teams (these can be made up on the night). There will also be table games to play while you wait for your turn.
Bar Open from 6.30pm for a prompt start at 7.30pm – pausing at 8.30pm for jacket potatoes and a choice of fillings.
Ticket cost: £13 (including supper)
To purchase your tickets go to https://skittles2.eventbrite.co.uk and use the password ‘skittles’.
20 boats took part in our Laser Open Meeting held on Saturday 13th April. This event was part of the Laser Thames Area Traveller Series.
The event coincided with a cold snap in the Spring weather with a shifty easterly wind which picked up as the day went on, to reach 16mph gusting 26mph at its peak.
Congratulations to the overall winner of the event, Sammy Isaacs-Johnson. Demonstrating a consistently solid performance throughout the day, Sammy won with 2 race wins plus a 2nd place to count. He discarded a 3rd place in race 2, which was won on handicap by Edward Brown, one of only two Laser Radials competing.
2nd overall with one race win was Gary Bullock, whilst 3rd overall and 1st Littleton boat was Mike Bean.
View the full results …
View pictures of the event …
Come Along to our annual Pre-Twilight Series Social Get Together.
This year we are having a Burger Night
on Thursday 18th April 7.00pm onwards
A selection of burgers will be available from £3.50
Chips may also be purchased.
The bar will be open.
We look forward to welcoming all visiting and home club Solo sailors to our Solo Open Meeting, which will be held on Sunday 28th April.
Registration will open be at 9.30 am. It is planned to run four races, the first race start will be scheduled for 11.00am, and the following three races at times to be advised on the day. If four races are held, three will count for overall positions, if three races are held, two will count. If less than two races are held, all will count.
Entry fee: £12.00 (to include tea and cakes at the end of the afternoon).
Download Notice of Race
Download Sailing Instructions
Note: there will be no club racing or cruising during this event.
Hooe Point SC in Plymouth are pleased to announce that they will be hosting the 2019 CSSA Dinghy Championships which will take place over the weekend of 20th, 21st and 22nd of September.
Racing will take place using the beautiful waters of Plymouth Sound on the Saturday and Sunday and there will be a fun race on the Friday evening in the river, as an icebreaker.
There will be a barbecue on Saturday after racing for all competitors and their families (BYOB).
Several camping venues are within easy reach of the sailing club and there are also nearby B & B’s and hotels.
Full details will be published in the near future but in the meantime, why not visit the regatta website and register your interest in this event. The website address is cssa-regatta-plymouth.co.uk. It will be helpful to us if we can have an idea of numbers who may be attending.
By registering your interest we will be able to keep you updated with developments.
We look forward to seeing you in September.
For any queries please contact Keith Kendall by email at kkendall@hotmail.co.uk
Littleton Sailing Club is delighted to announce that thanks to the efforts of our volunteers past and present, we have been awarded British Youth Sailing (BYS) Recognised Club status by the Royal Yachting Association (RYA).
Littleton’s recognition was awarded at the RYA Dinghy Show, Alexandra Palace on Sunday 3rd March 2019. It was received by Stephen Lemmon the 2019 leader for the Junior Sailing Group, and Andrew Selves our Youth Instructor.
To qualify for the recognition, the Club demonstrated that we met a series of
exacting standards, we run a regular race training programme within recognised BYS classes, youth sailors from the Club participate in BYS Regional Junior Championships (among others) and we continue to deliver training using qualified RYA Coaches to RYA Recognised Training Centre Standards.
If you are interested in trying dinghy sailing, or perhaps have previously sailed and want to take it to the next level, see our Youth Sailing activities and opportunities.
For more information on the BYS programme, visit the RYA website.
Our parent supervised Junior Sailing group re-starts Saturday afternoon 27th April 2019.
The aim of Juniors is to introduce youngsters to sailing and, with parents, enhance sailing skills and have fun. All juniors have opportunities to progress in skill to club racing through the Juniors fleet of boats, including Optimists, Toppers, Picos and high performance Fevas. Any young person who is already a member of Littleton Sailing Club or Littleton Lake Sailing Club via family can join Juniors sailing sessions. There is a contribution towards maintenance of the Juniors fleet of £60 for the season.
Sign up through our teamSTUFF app https://teamstuff.com/join/littleton-junior-sai/48d22ec7
For more information about our Junior sailing group …
6th April sees the first of our personal handicap pursuit races. Handicaps and a guide for competitors will be placed on the desk in the foyer as soon as possible after the new PY numbers are released by the RYA. The boat class start numbers for the 14:00 Personal Handicap Pursuit race will differ from the numbers used for the Twilight pursuit because the race is a slightly different length and because the Twilight starts 15 minutes past the hour. To obtain your start time you take your boat class start time and add your new personal handicap to that number. That gives your start time in minutes. When the 5-4-1-0 race start sequence is completed, 00 will be displayed and the numbers will count up every minute. You start when your number is displayed and the hooter sounds. Note that a negative start time means that you will be starting during the start sequence (before the 00 is displayed). Personal handicaps will be adjusted every week, so you need to check your start time every race.
Racing should be very close and everyone should have a chance to win!
Littleton Sailing Club has been awarded the title of Spelthorne Sports Club of the Year! This annual award was presented to the Club by Spelthorne Council in recognition for outstanding activities in sports. The 2018 Spelthorne Sports Awards ceremony which took place on 9th October at Shepperton Studios, saw 10 awards given out in all. In the past we have been successful in other categories but this is the first time the Club has won the overall award for best sports club. This is very much a shared award and demonstrates how passionate we are as a group about our sailing and our club.
At the event, attended by a delegation of our committee members, we were treated to a speech from Debbie Flood, double Olympic silver medalist in rowing on the power of persistence, and how, by continuing with your aims along with commitment and dedication high levels can be achieved.
At the ceremony club member Jo Lloyd also won the award of Volunteer of the Year for her dedication to duty co-ordination, an award richly deserved. With 150 clubs in the borough, these awards are prestigious and along with the others won on previous occasions confirms that Littleton is a really active and great club to be part of. Well done Team Littleton!
We are delighted to inform you that we have appointed a new caterer. Roxy, will start providing us with hot lunchtime snacks from Saturday 6 October, which looks to be a busy day, so please give her warm welcome as she finds her way around!