Great sailing on a superb water at Abbey Meads with lots of your Marblehead friends!

The Guildford Model Yacht Club extends a very warm welcome to all Marblehead enthusiasts for the M&S ranking event at our water at Abbey Meads lake, Chertsey.

The Guildford race team will do their best to give you a good day’s racing. The current IRSA Marblehead class rules will apply and the racing will be governed by the RRS 2013-2016 modified by the current MYA Standard Sailing Instructions, HMS 2014 and the MYA Regulations governing the organisation of the event. The relevant notices are as follows:

REGISTRATION – 0845 to 0930 hours

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 1630 hours and any race in progress at 1700 hours will be abandoned.

Please make the relevant boat certificate, PSN certificate available at the registration table, where the entry fee of £5.00 is to be paid as soon as possible after you arrive. We will inform competitors in advance if there is a requirement to add any prefix etc to modify sail numbers to avoid clashes.

As well as the ACORN Trophy and winners’ prizes, there will also be a Junior prize for the best competitor under 18.

Please use the MYA online entry system; go to the MYA website front page, click the calendar tab and scroll down to our event on 31 May where the entry form will appear. Please ignore the requirement to send the entry fee prior to the event, as we would prefer the fees at registration. Please enter by midnight on Thursday 28th May, but don’t leave entering to the last minute – enter now!

For more details or if you want to borrow a boat, or have any queries don’t hesitate to phone Roger Stollery 01483 421 801 or e-mail stollery17@sky.com

You will find ABBEY MEADS lake easily, provided you don’t use the route recommended by Google! Please stick to the following directions. From whatever direction you are travelling, follow the brown signs to THORPE PARK and go to the roundabout at their entrance. Then travel south on the A320 towards Chertsey and you will see the lake on your left. After a few hundred yards turn left off the road, where signposted ‘Chertsey Water Treatment Works’ and where you should also see a sign, RADIO SAILING. If you are coming to watch and arrive whilst we are racing, follow the instructions on the gate and phone the number shown there to get the code to unlock the gate. Alternatively remember the 1617 code number to unlock the brass GMYC number padlock and replace it as you found it once you are through. If all else fails just sit on your horn!