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Garmin Hamble Winter series: Race Report week 2
Garmin Hamble Winter Series: Race Report Week 2 As October progresses, you could be forgiven for thinking that the thermals should be dug out – but the second weekend of the Garmin Hamble Winter Series, which this week incorporated the Doyle Sails Hamble One-Design Championships and the Sailing Networks Big Boat Championships, hosted some unseasonal sunshine and warmth to accompany the racing.
Published 13:43 on 12 Oct 2015
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Garmin Hamble Winter Series: Race report week 1
Week 1 Sponsored by Impala Class Assosiation For the first time in as many years as the race team could remember, the weather gods allowed the full programme of two races to be sailed on the first weekend of the Garmin Hamble Winter Series. Which, as race officer Kathy Smalley pointed out, perhaps should be temporarily re-named the Garmin Hamble Indian Summer Series for
Published 10:24 on 6 Oct 2015
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Winter Series/BB Champs/OD Champs 2015 dates
The dates for the 2015 events have been confirmed. The Garmin Hamble Winter Series will start on the 4th October 2015. The Big Boat and One Design Championships will start on the 10th October 2015.
Published 16:33 on 12 Dec 2014
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Published 19:13 on 5 Dec 2014
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Garmin Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Weekend 8
The final race of the 2014 Garmin Hamble Winter Series was ushered in by sunshine and an unseasonably warm breeze – quite a change from the previous week's biblical rain and cold wind. The wind was from the north and shifty, which gave all classes some great opportunities to make gains on their competitors – just as well, as throughout the fleet there were scores to settle andplaces to be
Published 18:00 on 30 Nov 2014
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Garmin Hamble Winter Series: Race Report Weekend 7
Winter finally made an appearance in the Garmin Hamble Winter Series on the penultimate race day of 2014. Up to this point we've had unseasonal warmth, but the weather gods made up for this with a cold, gusty and unbelievably wet day on the water. The rain began at around midnight, and competitors awoke to it hammering on their windows. It didn't let up all day! Nonetheless, the race team braved
Published 17:00 on 23 Nov 2014
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Garmin Hamble Winter Series: Race Report Weekend 6
Menacing skies, a torrential rain squall and an indecisive breeze couldn't stop the assembled Garmin Hamble Winter Series fleet from getting in some cracking racing on the sixth weekend of the series. After a vicious rainsquall caught the fleet on the way out, the wind shifted around between southeast and northerly until it settled in the northeast for long enough to get a good race in for all classes. The race team combined some
Published 18:00 on 16 Nov 2014
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Garmin Hamble Winter Series: Half Time Review
Garmin Hamble Winter Series We've reached the halfway stage in the 2014 Garmin Hamble Winter Series and a well-deserved mid-series break weekend. A range of weather conditions has tested competitors, with everything from flat calms to thirty knot gusts keeping fleets mixed up and boats changing positions from week to week. Looking ahead to the next half of the series, some exciting battles are lined up throughout the 80 plus black
Published 13:00 on 4 Nov 2014
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Garmin Hamble Winter Series: Race Report Weekend 4
GARMIN Hamble Winter Series We might already be at the end of October, but competitors were treated to some cracking sailing in unseasonably warm weather as the Garmin Hamble Winter Series reached its halfway point and the clocks went back this weekend. After a bruising race last week this weekend's forecast provided some relief, predicting a gusty 10-18 knots of breeze from just south of Southwest. That's exactly what crews
Published 17:00 on 26 Oct 2014
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Garmin Hamble Winter Series: Race Report Weekend 3
Bright And Breezy! All last week the forecasts agreed that this weekend was to be a brutal one. But contrary to the expectations of most of the fleet, the weather gods allowed the race team to fit in one race on this, the third Sunday of the 2014 Garmin Hamble Winter Series – but it was in conditions that put boats and their crews to the test. As boats motored out of the
Published 18:00 on 19 Oct 2014
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Doyle Sails One Design Championships Saturday 18th Oct 2014
Current forecasts indicate that racing will take place tomorrow as scheduled. Race Management Team
Published 18:14 on 17 Oct 2014
