After Burton - Ribbed Boat sailing!

[Tim Gatti]

[face=Helv]TWO National 12 Ribbed Boat Racing events are now confirmed at Yeadon Sailing Club as follows:[/face]
Organised racing will take place on Sun 31st May and Sun 19th July from 11.00am through to 2.00pm

The Ribbed fleet may also join in the Club's normal race programme in the afternoon ( Races at 2.30 and 4.00pm)
Events will be subject to prevailing weather conditions on the day.
If you are in the area and you fancy spectating at one of these historic events you would be very welcome. It will be nearly 50 years since five ribbies raced together on the Tarn so do come along to see the vintage section in action - the boats and some of the helms!
Confirmed Helms and Crews participating are:
Howard Chadwick and Helen Nicholson
Tim Gatti and Yvonne McInnes
Brian Herring and Ros Stevenson
Ian Purkis and Margaret Purkis
Bernard and Ellie Clark
The five 'ribbies' sailing will be:
N2 - Goldcrest (Barnt Green) 1935
N341 - Mat (Uffa King) 1938
N493 - Laughter (Holt 500) 1945
N711 - Sinner (Gnome) 1947
N1183 - Tessa (Proctor Mk 2) 1953

The plan is to run 5 x 20min races with helms and crews changing boats between each race.
Provisional Race times as follows:Pre-race briefing: 10.35 - 10.45
Race 1: 11.00 - 11.25
Race 2: 11.30 - 11.55
Race 3: 12.00 - 12.25
Tea/Coffee Break: 12.30 - 12.55
Race 4: 13.00 - 13.25
Race 5: 13.30- 13.55
Look forward to seeing you there if you can make it.

[Roly Mo]

Hope it stops raining by then :B

[GarryR]

The song "Isn't she lovely, isn't she wonderful" comes to mind when you see these pictures - and I had a girlfriend called Tessa once upon a wonderful time so the memories are complete!!