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HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 3
HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 3 Hamble IRC Autumn Championships If there were any doubts that competitors were not taking things seriously in this return to sailing period, they were soon dispelled on the Friday before racing. At 12.30 Tokolshe 3, Cape 31, David Bartholomew was spotted returning to the Hamble after a fully crewed practice session. Twenty minutes later ICY, Melges IC37, Ian Atkins, left the river
Published 14:12 on 20 Oct 2020
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 2 - 10/11 October.
HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 2 - 10/11 October. The second week of the HYS Hamble Winter Series started with, as PRO Peter Bateson so aptly put it, "Race 1 really!" With last Sunday's cancellation and high winds all but forgotten, Peter chose to start near 4N, QXI, as it was directly down wind of the first mark, 4J, hamblewinterseries.com. With 10-12 knots from NNW to N and sunshine,
Published 10:45 on 15 Oct 2020
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 1 3rd & 4th October.
HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 1 3 rd & 4 th October. It is often the case that a series with the word "winter" in it starts with a week or two of an Indian summer.Not HYS Hamble Winter Series 2020, however. The remnants of storm Alex meant that the first weekend was always going to be challenging both in terms of course setting and course completion.
Published 09:31 on 9 Oct 2020
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Force 4 Sponsors Week 1
HYS Hamble Winter Series Force 4 Sponsors Week 1 The HYS Hamble Winter Series starts this weekend and the Force 4 Chandlery will provide day prizes for the first Sundays racing. Athena Rossi, Manager of Force 4 at Port Hamble, will once again be in attendance to present the prizes in a socially distanced manner. Before the first Sunday race, the Performance 40 fleet will have three windward/leeward races
Published 09:59 on 2 Oct 2020
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Big Boat Dates
HYS Hamble Winter Series Big Boat Dates The races to determine this year's Hamble Big Boat Champion have now been fixed. The Hamble Star Trophy, will be awarded to the boat with the best score from the races on the 4 th October and the 17 th and 18 th of October. With two races planned for the 17 th that will make a total of
Published 09:52 on 21 Sep 2020
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HYS Hamble Winter Series 2020 Entries Are Open!
HYS Hamble Winter Series 2020 Entries Are Open! Entries are now open for the 39 th HYS Hamble Winter Series which will take place in the Solent from the 4 th October to the 29 th November 2020. The racing will start on 3 rd October with 3 races for the Performance 40 fleet. The next day, the P40's will
Published 09:21 on 15 Sep 2020
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HYS Hamble Winter Series 2020 Entries invited from Double Handers.
HYS Hamble Winter Series 2020 Entries invited from Double Handers. With sailing in the Solent gradually returning to the "new normal", plans for the 2020 HYS Hamble Winter Series are now well advanced. In view of the current situation the event will make a number of changes to comply with Covid 19 regulations and recommendations. Perhaps the most positive change is that for the first time,
Published 08:52 on 28 Aug 2020
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2020 HYS Hamble Winter Series
2020 HYS Hamble Winter Series First, the HYS Hamble Winter Series Team hopes that all competitors are well and keeping safe during the lockdown. These are extraordinary and difficult times and those of us isolated in Hamble find the empty River and Solent both beautiful and weird in equal measures. Let's hope we will all be back on the water before too long. Planning for the 2020 HYS Hamble Winter
Published 11:00 on 15 Jul 2020
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 8 - Final race report
HYS Hamble Winter Series Week 8 With wind from the North East, and a fair bit of it, the CV went to East Knoll (4H) to run the final day of the 2019 HYS Hamble Winter Series. IRC Classes 1&2 were despatched upwind to William (4L) with the smaller boats, IRC Classes 3&4, to the slightly closer hamblewinterseries.com (4J). There followed a series of up and downs
Published 10:09 on 9 Dec 2019
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 7
HYS Hamble Winter Series week 7 There are four basic requirements for yacht racing; boats, a race team, water and wind. The first three were no problem on week 7 of the HYS Hamble Winter Series, but number four stubbornly refused to materialise. The Committee Vessel went to John Fisher (4Q) to find about two knots of breeze from the South West. AP was hoisted at 10.20 am, and everyone waited. M'Enfin!? found a
Published 14:36 on 28 Nov 2019
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Week 5
HYS Hamble Winter Series Week 5 Once again after a mixed week of weather, the sun shone for Week 5 of the HYS Hamble Winter Series. The Solent's prevailing winds, however, did not prevail and the Race Team and Competitors were met by a North Westerly air stream as they headed out to the start. The CV set up shop at QXI International (4N), and
Published 12:51 on 21 Nov 2019
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HYS Hamble Winter Series Race Report - Week 6
HYS Hamble Winter Series Week 6 Week 6 of the HYS Hamble Winter Series dawned with lovely winter sunshine bathing the Solent. As is now becoming the norm, the wind was forecast and indeed was from a northerly direction. The CV Condor made its way to East Knoll. With over half the spring flood completed and a NNE air flow there would be plenty of water to keep the
Published 12:21 on 21 Nov 2019
