Guildford Model Yacht Club are holding the entries open for this championship until next Thursday 19th May, so if you haven’t entered yet there is still time!
As well as the entry procedure in the Notice of Race, you can now enter via the MYA website. Just click on the ‘news’ and there is a piece on the 36″ nationals. Click on that and the entry form will appear.
Cheers, Roger
The Guildford Model Yacht Club extends a very warm welcome to you and all 36” enthusiasts for this Championship event on our large open water at Abbey Meads. The last time your class came to race here it was lots of fun and there was plenty of good racing in wind strengths that gave an airing to several of your rigs.
Preparations are well under way and our objective is to give you lots of pleasure and excitement in a friendly, but competitive atmosphere. So, dig out your 36”, dust it off and get ready for the big event. We are keen to encourage juniors, as is the tradition of this class and so let your children and grandchildren have a go.
Since the last time you were here, we are providing you with better access down the steps to our landing stages and we have cut down the biggest trees on the water’s edge and have an even more experienced team to run the event. We have lots of lovely prizes and you will go away with more than just a good memory of the event.
Roger Stollery will be the Race Officer. We hope that the conditions will be ideal, sunny with a good wind straight up and down the N/S axis of the lake and no fog, rain or other excuses to prevent us doing our utmost to make the best of it! The current Class Rules will apply and the racing will be conducted using the RRS 2013-2016 modified by the current MYA Standard Sailing Instructions, HMS 2016 and the MYA Regulations governing the organisation of the event. The relevant notices are as follows:
BRIEFING – this will start at approximately 0945 hours.
RACING TIMES – the first race will start soon after the briefing at approximately 1000 hours – no race will start after 1700 hours and any race in progress at 1800 hours will be abandoned.
Please make your boat’s certificate is available at the registration table in the covered area as soon as you arrive. Return to the covered area when your boat is rigged for a measurement check.
Please enter ASAP in the normal way by completing the National Championship Entry Form on p26 of the MYA Yearbook or using the MYA on-line system. However you enter please send the entry fee of £15 to Roger Stollery, 6 Little Tumners Court, Godalming, Surrey GU7 2HF by the closing date of 6th May 2016.
We will inform competitors in advance if there is a requirement to add any prefix etc to modify sail numbers to avoid clashes. We would like to point out that the operating bank is currently about 1.8 metres above water level and there are concrete steps down to a launching platform closer to the water level . The banks can get muddy so Wellington boots are advisable! Unfortunately we cannot provide lunches so please bring your own food and drink.
Please don’t hesitate to phone Roger Stollery 01483 421 801 if you have any queries or want to borrow a boat.
For those of you who have not been before, ABBEY MEADS lake can be found easily. From whichever direction you are travelling, follow the signs to Thorpe Park. At that entrance roundabout take the southern exit towards Chertsey on the A320. The lake entrance is about 1000 metres on the left, after the lay-by and where there is a turning off and a pair of metal gates. When the Club is sailing at the lake, you will also see a sign ‘RADIO SAILING’ just before this entrance. The gate may be just closed, but not locked: please close the gate behind you!
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