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Hamble Winter Series 2017 - Entries Open!
Entries Open! 2017 Hamble Winter Series for IRC 0-4 Classes, IRC Mixed Sportsboats and Fast 40+ Class Hamble One Design Championships for J/70, J/80, SB20 classes and other OD Classes with sufficient entries Hamble, UK, 17 August 2017: Entries are now open for the UK's premier Winter Sailing event –the Hamble Winter Series.
Published 08:55 on 18 Aug 2017
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Inaugural Spinlock IRC Autumn Championships opens the 2017 Hamble Winter Series
Press Release Inaugural Spinlock IRC Autumn Championships opens the 2017 Hamble Winter Series Hamble, UK, 14 August 2017: The first weekend of the Hamble Winter Series, the UK's premier Winter Sailing event, will see the hosting of the first ever Spinlock IRC Autumn Championships to be run in the Solent. Racing will take place on Saturday 30 th September and
Published 15:54 on 14 Aug 2017
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 8
A brisk and chilly 12-20 knot breeze greeted competitors in the final race of the 2016 Hamble Winter Series, providing some great conditions for a fitting end to a close fought series in all classes. This year's series saw an increase in entrants over 2015, and for the first time in over 10 years, the Hamble Winter Series hasn't lost a single race to bad weather. PRO Stuart Childerley summed up
Published 11:57 on 5 Dec 2016
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 7
35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 7 Despite awaking to biblical rain and the best efforts of Storm Angus, the braver souls in the Hamble Winter Series fleet were rewarded with some champagne sailing. The race team were quietly confident that the high winds seen the night before would moderate in time, and true to form the wind had dropped to a west to northwesterly 10 knots by
Published 10:25 on 25 Nov 2016
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 6
35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 6 Saturday's miserable autumn rain cleared up in time for the weather gods to deliver a day of champagne sailing for Sunday's Hamble Winter Series race. A very shifty north-westerly welcomed competitors to a game of snakes and ladders, with oscillating windshifts providing plenty of opportunity for position changes in the large fleets. From a startline near
Published 13:23 on 18 Nov 2016
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 5
35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 5 , Sponsored by One Sails The Hamble Winter Series might have only taken a week's mid-season break, but the weather had become noticeably colder since the last race a fortnight ago. Nonetheless, a veritable army of competitors and volunteers ventured out onto icy decks for the fifth weekend of
Published 14:26 on 9 Nov 2016
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 4, Hamble Big Boat Championship & Hamble One Design Championships - Week 2.
Hamble Winter Series Day 4 It was a day of shifty, gusty winds and steep waves for the fourth weekend of the 2016 Hamble Winter Series, which this week played host to the Hamble Big Boat Championships and the Hamble One Design Championships. The race team saw a maximum gust of 26 knots, with an average wind speed of 17.8 knots from a wind direction
Published 11:42 on 1 Nov 2016
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 3
Race Report Week 3 Despite a pessimistic forecast, oilskin-swaddled crews competing in the Hamble Winter Series enjoyed a day of champagne sailing – with only a few rain squalls to remind them that Autumn is setting in. A wind direction of around 215 degrees with big gusts under ominous clouds allowed the race team to send the assembled fleets on a course that led them to the north
Published 15:25 on 17 Oct 2016
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Week 2, Hamble Big Boat Championship & Hamble One Design Championships - Week 1.
Hamble Winter Series Sunday saw the second race day of the 2016 Hamble Winter Series – which after a changeable forecast delivered some champagne sailing conditions – albeit with some choice shifts to stir up the fleets a little. PRO Stuart Childerley managed to fit two races in from a startline in the vicinity of North Ryde Middle buoy. Two races on and in some fleets the
Published 14:59 on 13 Oct 2016
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35th Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 1
35th Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 1 A chilly start greeted competitors on the first day of the 2016 Hamble Winter Series – but the sun soon warmed up the Solent to deliver an enjoyable day on the water in bright sunshine. Out on the
Published 15:35 on 11 Oct 2016
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Hamble Winter Series Sailing Instructions
Version 2 of the SI's are now posted and these should be used for the 2016 HWS. http://www.hamblewinterseries.com/documents
Published 13:40 on 27 Sep 2016
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Press Release - 2016 Hamble Winter Series Entries Open
30 August 2016 2016 Hamble Winter Series Entries Open Entries for the 35 th edition of the premier winter sailing event well ahead of this time last year Hamble River Sailing Club, the organiser of the 35 th Hamble Winter Series has announced that in the first two weeks since on line entry opened for the 2016 Hamble Winter Series, boats from IRC1-4, J/88 and Fast
Published 15:17 on 30 Aug 2016
