A big squall before the race start caused a number of capsizes, resulting in a number of boats returning to shore rather than race. However, soon after the start the […]
Author: Dennis
Summer Series Report 18/09/2011
Race 1 – Gold, Silver and Bronze. The gold fleet was dominated by Nick and Ruth Marlow who won four of the five races they sailed. Second place went to […]
Team Racing 21st August ’11
Four teams took part in the annual team racing competition, held on Sunday 21st August. Team captains, Paul Warren, Mike Pritchard, Keith Adams and Kevin Milton each led a team […]
Wednesday Night Miracle 29/06/2011
Maybe he was rested after a weekend off from racing running the Tripartite, but in difficult wind conditions there was a brilliant performance by Brian Dennis in his Miracle 337, […]
Northern Tripartite 26/06/2011
52 boats took part in the biggest ever northern tripartite event with 33 visiting boats – Sutton-in-Ashfield brought an impressive 16 boats, Swarkestone 11, Girton 6 with Attenborough having 19 […]
Wednesday Series 1 – 0.5 Points Cover First Three Overall 04/06/2011
Following the four way tie in the Snowdrop Series, Wednesday Series 1 ended up almost as close. Competition at the front of the fleet is increasing with new helms, boats […]
Frostbite Series 12/12/2010
The 2010 Frostbite series came to a frozen end with the last three weekends of racing cancelled due to cold weather and a pond that eventually ended up totally frozen […]
October Pursuit race 02/11/2010
Twenty-four boats took part in the October Pursuit Race. Bringing back memories to many at Attenborough we had an Enterprise 1-2-3 with father and son John and Ethan Shepherd winning […]
Ladies Plate 26/09/2010
Blustery conditions reduced the turnout this year with several contenders ending up crewing in the Kingfisher Cup instead. However, a fleet of three had some close race. Julie Warren in […]
Kingfisher Cup 26/09/2010
A fleet of thirteen boats took part in the prestigous Kingfisher Cup in force three winds from the north-east resulting in the usual Attenborough shifts and gusts. A good beat […]