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Sunday 26 May - No Racing
NO RACING at W&OBYC on Sunday 26th May . The Motor Boat Club have an important National Championships taking place that day, so we are allowing them access to the Club earlier than normal. The River Race for the Waveney's is still going ahead. This means that the Sunday Spring points series for Fast Handicap, Slow Handicap and BODs/Squibs will finish this coming Sunday (May 19th) not on the 26th. The
Published 08:41 on 15 May 2024
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Sunday May 5th
Sunday 5th May - there's powerboat racing on the Broad in the afternoon, so it will be an earlier than usual start for our races. 10.00 Fast Handicap 10.03 Mixed Keels 10.06 Waveneys 10.09 Slow Handicap Second races will follow straight on so that we can complete our racing by 11:45, and clear the broad and the slipway by 12.00. Fast Handicap, 6 minutes later Mixed Keels, 3 minutes later
Published 16:03 on 26 Apr 2024
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Laser and Single Handed Open Meeting
WOBYC Laser and Singlehander open meeting Sunday 31st March. Info here: https://www.wobyc.com/.../laser-and-single-handed-open... Any questions, please email sailing@wobyc.com
Published 14:50 on 20 Mar 2024
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Junior Training Days - February Half Term
We are planning to run 2 days of informal training during the February half term. Wednesday 21st Feb - Single handers/own boats Thursday 22nd Feb - double handers (Club Wanderers/2000's) If you are interested, please speak to Kyle or Jason
Published 10:53 on 4 Feb 2024
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Topper Success
Nathan (and Anna!) spent the weekend at Carsington Water Sailing Club where the top 24 ranked Topper sailors in Great Britain were invited for a weekend of top level coaching by ITCA. The coaches consisted of Steve Irish (Olympic level coach) Tom Goodbourn (Top level Topper coach) and Joe Rowe (2022 Topper World Champion and now coach) and focused on race strategy and tactics within a quality fleet. (Nathan is currently ranked 24th.).
Published 12:11 on 29 Jan 2024
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Winter Series - half way
The calculations say there are 19 Sundays in our winter racing programme and, as Sunday was the 9th, we're now just past the half-way stage. The current leaders are George Madin in the first Fast Handicap series and Nathan Clark in the second; Bryan and Jenny Riley in both Squib series; Isaac Thomas in the first Slow Handicap series and Harry Calver in the second. Big thank you to the race and safety teams for getting
Published 15:00 on 9 Jan 2024
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Boxing Day - Jonathan House Memorial Salver
The Jonathan House Memorial Salver will be raced for on Boxing Day (December 26th), with an All-comers Handicap race starting at 10:45. The race will be followed by mulled wine and a prize giving in the clubhouse.
Published 15:16 on 19 Dec 2023
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End of Seasons Regatta - Oct 29th
Will be held alongside the second day of the Phantom Open Meeting. 3 races, 2 to count.
Published 15:32 on 27 Nov 2023
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Oulton Week - August 20th to 25th
The club will be busy! The sun will be shining! The bar will be well equipped :-)
Published 15:31 on 27 Nov 2023
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Race times for summer 2023
Saturday - 14:21 Fast handicap 14:24 Mixed keelboats 14:27 Waveneys 14:30 Slow handicap 15:45 Fast handicap 15:51 Mixed keels 15:54 Slow Handicap Sunday - 10:15 Fast handicap 10:18 Mixed keelboats 10:21 Waveneys 10:24 Slow handicap 11:30 Fast handicap 11:36 Mixed keelboats 11:39 Slow handicap
Published 15:57 on 4 Apr 2023