Now we are really up and running. Congratulations to all those who made it to Rutland, Datchet and most recently Hayling. The latest news is that this marks the end of the fat face night sail qualification, info on this is here as well as lists of those who have qualified.
This coming weekend is the first training week end and it has been oversubscribed, please book in early for the pre Nationals training and for that matter the Nationals.
The website is back following an issue with the hosting server. It should in the near future become all 49er.org.uk, in the mean time its best to bookmark the site as 49er.org.uk rather than the sites url. The forum is officially dead and a new solution will be worked on in the ear future.
Anyone who has stated there intention to attend the Ullswater training should get an e mail regarding the training in the next few days, if you dont then please get in touch as you have been lost in the system!
Dont forget the Fat face night sail, those that read the below will no doubt have been to the Datchet Open Results are here. Results and a list of those qualified will be published very soon! Let us know if you think you deserve a wild card entry, Plymouth locals would be pretty high up the list.
April 08
Hello Sailors! News is alive and whats more the lucky 49er class has been invited to a new event. The Fatface night sail is on 5th July, read all about it on Yachts and Yachting. If you have read it then you will know that its restricted entry. Therefore if you want to go you need to fulfill a qualification criteria.
4 places available from the RYA National Ranking series as at 12th May.
5 places from the 49er circuit, we will collate the results from Rutland and Datchet opens. Only one to count, but ties will be decided from the last event so best get to Datchet to secure your spot.
1 Wild card entry who's name is not Dave or Gemma or Simon or Stevie or Ben but is worthy of a place, e mail to suggest you are worthy.
It sounds like a really good event, rumour is that is is run by Lester to attract the best sailors down south and away from the Birkett trophy. It's a tought call as apparently the Birkett is a not to be missed, least not to see Lester win something in his 49er.
On the subject of Lester and Ullswater there are two places left for the training May 17th and 18th. See the training page for more details.
There are still places left for both Weymouth training weekends, particularly the pre Nationals training. Rumour has it there might be a Danish and Finish invasion going on for that event. Dont let that put you off it will be a great event, with great racing and a great social scene. Ummm do we need some some one to organise the social's ? Volunteers please.
See the links on the right for information about the Nationals.
It must have been a while since the last update as this seems to be going on a bit. News from Charlie regarding the forum is 'its still broken' so we are looking for a new solution. Best forget about the forum for a while. Please any offers for a new working unspamable forum?
Thats it for now and possibly another few weeks - must try harder sounds like a school report, please send any good stuff over we can add content as we like, how about some links to u tube 49er sailing? There must be some team websites to add - Dylan must have a blog or something?
Please find information and notice of race for the Draycote 9er open on 8th and 9th March under 'latest events' on the right. News is reaching us of a new and exciting event on July 5th its along the same lines as the Tide Ride but equally very differn't, keep the date free it looks like only ten boats so there could, if numbers demand it, be a qualification system.
A question has recently been posed as to how to join the class assocaiation, ummm this is an intreresting conundrum, at present there is no system. Please give us a week or two or make that a month lets just see how long it takes to look into it and get somthing sorted. If memory serves correct the meeting at Grafham last year ( was it an agm? As close to an agm as it gets ) went along the lines of the association being free to join, but requiring joining - if that makes sense? Suffice to say it needs something done. We would need an online form and a good method of converting that online form to a data base and one want to volunteer some skills in this area ?
On the subject of the association, god this stuff is dull, any offers to get invloved would be more than welcome, target Dave Hall with offers.
Dont forget the training weekends they are filling up, see the training page link above.
A small but quality fleet enjoyed some good well run racing at the RYA spring series, next event up is a 9er event at Draycote the club has six 49ers who all sail regularly and describe them selves as "a very friendly bunch with a great water and shall we say our standard is club level....".
A question has recently been posed as to how to join the class assocaiation, ummm this is an intreresting conundrum,
There is a National Ranker, or Qualifier as the RYA seem to call them now, this week end at Weymouth. See events for details, this had been omitted from the calendar, although the links to the RYA fixtures list does contain the details for these events.
There are two this spring on the 23rd and 24th Feb, and the 10th and 11th May at Hayling.
Events and results have been updated with rya rankings and links to the olympic classes fixtures booklet, a must read for attending the UK qualification events.
The training week ends have had a really good response, they will happen so please let is know if you are planning to go as there may have to be a limit on numbers! See below for details or on the training page.
The forum should be back up and running fairly soon appologies from Charlie for its dissapearance. Once it is up and running we will set up an improved system for communications! Ha one day!
Please send us any links that will be suitable for the tips and advice column......
This is the new look 49er website, its not big and its not clever, but it is here and its here to serve a simple purpose. The intention is that the site will contiune to be user, or more importantly sailor, led via the forum but also that the front end will provide an opportunity to collate as much good and relevant content as we can. Starters for ten is on the right please e mail more links here. Or e mail articles and we will arrange to host them. If you want some free pr then put them up on your own site.....
The 2008 calendar is on line see it here or down load it here.
Three, nearly free, training week ends have been arranged see the training page for more details.
What do people want to do or see happen? The class is pretty unique with participation ranging from recreational blasting / trying to get around the pond with out falling in ( thats everyone ) through club, national, international and Olympic racing. Here in the UK we are blessed with some of the best 49er sailors in the world as well as one of the most populated National fleets. Use the forum to post ideas and try and get some action going down.
With luck there will be a few more events added to the calendar, it is hoped that some of the clubs will have a few specific week ends where visiting 49er sailors can come and join in the club racing, the idea being that it becomes an informal open meeting and a chance to get some good racing / sailing / training with some other 49ers. Please let us know if your club is keen to get a some thing running along these lines. STOP PRESS - Ullswater have kiked this off with an open invitation to 49er sailors to join in there club racing 0n 31st May and 1st June.
Any offers of help to run the class would be much appreciated, even small things can make a big difference. Please mail here and it will be fowarded to the relevant people.
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