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17 May |
Six Itchenor families from the mirror South zone squad travelled North to Rutland for this year's Eric Twiname Championship, which marks the end of the Winter zone squad training. Saturday started with a strong northerly which slowly died, and Sunday brought a good force 4 gusting 5 from the South West which was equally shifty. Blessed with 2 days of uninterrupted sun, the adults ran, cycled and walked around the reservoir, whilst the kids coped with challenging sailing conditions.
The RYA laid on a fantastic evening with hog roast and human table football, in which all the kids (over 300 in total) competed in teams. The south zone mirror sailors reached the semi – finals, whilst the adults enjoyed a barbecue.
After 5 races, the leading 3 mirrors all finished on 8 points. Jo Kalderon (Itchnor Sailing Club) and Sally Lorimer (Warsash) won on count back, despite using a sheep as a transit! (Yes it did scamper off at the vital moment). South zone won the Eric twiname shield - Well done to everyone – Clare Peterson (Itchnor SC) and Rory Odell (HISC) (5th),other sailors from Itchenor were: Celia Hansell and Patrick Jeffries (9th), Edward Hansell (11th), Tom Weston and Hannah Jones (12th).
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9 May |
Please click here to download the report from this event |
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Please click here to download the Notice of Race |
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22 Apr |
For any members wishing to review the two presentations made at the Spring Meeting, they are now available for viewing on the Members Pages. Please click here to go to the login page |
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19 Apr |
Notice of Race and Entry Pack now available. Please click here to access the JF downloads page |
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14 Apr |
 The International 14 season got off to a flying start over the Easter weekend with 27 boats competing for the Easter Tray. Katie Nurton and Nigel Ash (GBR 1520) won, holding off strong competition from visitors Glen Truswell and Chris Blackburn (GBR 1543) and Sam Pascoe and Alex Knight (GBR 1509). Saturday evening saw a fantastic "Space" themed fancy dress party with a truly ridiculous and lethal red smoking alcoholic broth. For full results and more photos, please see www.gbr.international14.org |
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11 Apr |
Following completion of the selection series comprising events at Grafham, Weymouth and the RYA National Youth Championships in Pwllheli, three Itchenor 420s have been selected to represent the British team at the World Championships in Austria later this summer. Isabel Fitgerald (crewed by Kat Colvin – Oxford), Charlotte Fitzgerald (Emma Spruce – Hill Head) and Hugo Sloper (James Dodd – Lymington) will be part of the 14 boat British team. We think this might be the first time that Itchenor have had three helms selected for the Worlds, and their efforts on the circuit go some way to explaining why the 420 is not such a frequent sighting on the staging ! |
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1 Apr |
Congratulations to all Itchenor Mirror sailors who took part in this regatta, in glorious sunshine but tricky sailing conditions.
Behind the winners, the Watkins girls from Poole were 2nd Jo Kalderon and Ottilie Spruit from Itchenor , and 3rd Patrick Taylor and Imogen Bellfield from Itchenor / Warsash. |
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4 Mar |
Please click here to download the 2012 training schedule |
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27 Feb |
Today we welcome Nick Griffiths to the staff as the Club's new House Manager.
Nick comes to us with a wealth of experience, having been House Manager at Hayling Island SC for 15 years. I hope you will join me in welcoming Nick to ISC.
STEPHEN CARDEN-NOAD
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6 Feb |
The Solent Sunbeams had a very successful Winter Champagne Cocktail Party on Sat 4th Feb with 76 people attending!
That's the vast majority of the Class and that really makes a party! Julian Money the previous Class Capt was presented with the beautiful full-model of Penny in recognition of his contribution to the Class. The snow held off and even those who had to travel north to get home managed. |
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21 Jan |
The 2012 programme is now available in the Member's area - complete with duties. Click here to go to the login page
If you are unable to do your duty please add your names to the swap list by clicking the link
http://www.itchenorsc.co.uk/html/swapduties.html |
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20 Jan |
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12 Jan |
Successful day for ISC in opening race of Snowflake series at CYC. Three ISC mirrors in the top 5 of the 23 boat slow handicap fleet. Congratulations to Grace Yeoman and Izzy Barker for their second overall. Imy Pudney also did a great job coming in third despite her tactician, Jonathan Pudney, positioning them over the line on the start. Harriet Fisk tried valiantly to wake her helmsman father up with a sharp jab to the head with the spinnaker pole after he squandered a text book start and leading position round the windward mark – the technique worked and they clung on to 5th place. Youngsters Annabel Fisk and Milly Moss also had a good race and would have been well up the fleet but for a small navigational error.
Next race of series is Sunday 22nd Jan. Would be great to get a few more ISC Mirrors down – some good racing and plenty of banter over an excellent lunch afterwards. |
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2 Jan |
Please click here to read the report and see the pictures |
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21 Nov |
 At the annual XOD presentation of trophies from this year's Cowes Week it was
crews from Itchenor Sailing Club that received the lion's share. In a year when the
Week enjoyed a record turnout of 146 X boats to celebrate the class's centenary it is
true testament to the skills of the Itchenor team of 30 boats that they triumphed
against truly stiff competition. The most coveted trophy, the Captain's Cup, returned
again to Itchenor- this year in the hands of the crew of Phoenix. Andrew Shaw
helming with his uncle Chris Froy and Alan Roberts as crew put together a
consistently successful series of seven races to secure the prize. Phoenix also won
the Eustace Grenfell Trophy, Steele-Pilcher Salver, George Oliver Challenge Cup
and the RMYC Centenary Trophy. Andy was awarded the XOD under 25 Cup and is
the youngest winner of the Captain's Cup since his father Alastair won it 40 years
previously. Other Itchenor boats winning trophies at Cowes were: Hiscock Trophy– Catherine (Peter and Steve Lawrence with Paddy Smart), Harold Hayles Bowl– Perdix (David Humphrey, Johnny Shaw and Julia Plumstead) and The Ark and Dove
Challenge Cup – Xcitation – (John Tremlett, Jeremy Lear and Steve Spraggs).
Itchenor also won the Phillipson Shield that is awarded to the division with the best
results over the whole week beating off a strong challenge from Lymington in
particular. Thus reflecting the outstanding performance of the whole team from
Chichester Harbour
Photo:. Chris Froy and Andrew Shaw with the Captain's Cup – photograph David Priscott.
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17 Oct |
Eight ISC boats went down the reach for the final Mirror event of the season. The CYC Mirror open is one of the oldest opens in the Mirror calendar and is celebrating its 40 year this year.
Only two other ISC boats have won the open during this 40 year period. Isabel Davies and Johnnie Law put on a series of two wins and two seconds to clinch the coveted prize. All this whilst the fleet was watched from the spacious ground of CYC whilst drinking cool larger under the willow tree.
By winning CYC and with Jo and Becky Kalderon winning Bosham earlier in the year ISC juniors still continue to dominate the Mirror racing in the harbour. Next year we need to add the Itchenor open if we truly want the triple Crown. |
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8 Oct |
For many of the Itchenor boats it was the first time in many years that they had been north of Watford. By van, by car and by train the Itchenor team arrived at the most idyllic spot in Ulswater in the lake district for the final qualifier event for the national squad. At 1 o clock the breeze came in to blow a steady 15 knotts. Katie Davies and Gemma Keers continued their recent form leading the first race all the way round but just being piped at the line. After two more races team Itchenor finished with a 4th K Davies /Keers, 9th I Davies/ Moss, 11th Mcparland E Barker, 14th Peterson/ Upton, 17th Kalderon/ Spruit and 22nd Yeoman/ I Barker. It was then a mad rush on Saturday evening to pack up boats and drive across the pass to the Royal Windermere for more racing on Sunday. At 1pm the race officer decided there was sufficient wind to run a couple of races – the second with the wind dropping to almost nothing. However off the back of it K Davies / Keers finished 9th,I Davies/Moss 11th, Mcparland/E Barker 14th,Yeoman/ I Barker 18th, Kalderon/ Spruit 19th and Peterson/Upton 23rd.
So that was the final event after three weeks of hard travel – 11 Itchenor boats participated in these high profile events and all competitors have carried our Itchenor flag with pride. Our junior members have been great travelling ambassadors for our club and positioning our club for the nationals next year. The competitors will find out on Friday who has made it to the national squad and who will make it to the south zones. However, no matter what the result, our junior class is clearly in great shape. Well done to all those who participated in these events. |
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20 Sept |
Cobnor Activities Centre (a 'not for profit' charity based at Cobnor Point, Chidham in Chichester Harbour) is offering free sailing tuition for adults and for young people aged 16 to 19 years old under the auspices of a Sport England Small Grants award.
The aim will be to offer courses to enable participants to achieve their RYA Level 1 or Level 2 sailing certificate, and afterwards they will be introduced to a sailing club in Chichester Harbour to enable them to continue sailing, and perhaps do some racing as well. Cobnor will also be running some informal sailing evenings during the spring and summer of 2012 for those with at least a Level 1 qualification.
Each course will be run by Cobnor's experienced RYA qualified sailing instructors.
Spaces are very limited for the courses which will be run over the next 12 months – the first two day non-residential courses will be held over the weekends of Saturday 15/ Sunday 16 October 2011 from 1000 to 1600, Saturday 14/Sunday 15 April 2012 from 1000 to 1600 and Saturday 26/Sunday 27 May 2012 from 1000 to 1600. More dates for next year will be announced later, and these may include some week day evening courses. Each weekend course will be designed to allow sufficient tuition to achieve either a Level 1 or Level 2 RYA Certificate by the end of the two days. If any part of a course is cancelled because of the weather, it will be re-scheduled.
Please contact Cobnor via www.cobnor.com |
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XOD FELIX BOWL