Silver for Charlotte

Charlotte Dobson has finished with a silver medal at the important French Olympic Sailing Week at Hyeres in Southern France. A strong qualifying series saw Charlotte in fourth place going into the final double points scoring medal race. A strong final race scoring a first place was then enoght to secure the silver medal. Well done Charlotte.

Read the full story here

MICSLtd.com Scottish Travellers 1 (Annandale SC) Report

The ITCA (GBR) Intermediate Youth Squad reigned supreme in the light and shifty conditions of leg one to the Scottish Toppers Inland Championships at Annandale. Squad members Jordan Black from Loch Earn SC and Jessica Campbel, an Annadale local were in dominant form leading the way often by a significant margin. Behind the leading pair was a real dogfight with frequent place chaging the order of the day. In the end it was the GBR Junior squads Alexander Still who faught through to third overall. Developmet fleet and full reports to follow...

No racing at Datchet

Well it's all over at Datchet and not a boat got wet. Look forward to seeing you all at Annandale this weekend. Let's hope for some more wind.

Datchet Nationwide

A healthy turnout of Scots at the first Nationwide but sadly no wind. Good news for Aaron who is stranded at home having planned to fly down (uber-posh!). Fortunately the weather is beautiful and the lack of planes is making for a very peaceful weekend. Picture shows the view which greeted the Scots on arrival last night.

G.

2010 Traveller Series Sponsor Announced

Scottish Toppers are pleased to announce that the series sponsor for the 2010 Traveller Series will be MICS Ltd. MICS Ltd is an established Scottish company that specialist in sourcing and procurement of existing marine products along with developing new ones.

Through it's online retail marine stores (micsltd.com), MICS Ltd sell everything a sailor could need including boat specific spares with the emphasis on customer satisfaction and service.

MICS Ltd will sponsor all six of the 2010 Traveller events providing vouchers for first, second and third places. The overall series prize will be a brand new Topper sail or £100 of Gill clothing. The Regatta fleet prize will be the same!

The first event will be at Annandale Sailing Club on April 24th and 25th 2010.

See you there.

New Outhaul cleat launched

New Boom now available

Well done Topper, following feedback at last years Nationals the Topper now has a new outhaul cleat mounting bracket.

As we had all discovered, the old booms with the cleat and 'plate' arrangement with the two rivets were susceptible to breaking at the rivet hole. Now there is a new system available with a single rivet on the compressed upper side of the boom which has hopefully solved any issues. And the new bracket is not stainless steel so there should be less corrosion around the rivet holes too!

Think your boom might be about to break, check the rivet holes for stress cracks. Is it worth the risk now a much improved option is available.

Forthcoming events

Don't forget to make your plans for Scottish Traveller number one next weekend at Annandale.

Good luck to anyone heading South for Nationwide one at Datchet Water Sailing Club, London this weekend. I know Jordan and Samantha are already down in the depths of Essex enjoying a weeks training at Bradwell and Alexander is doing the same at Hayling Island.

Please also remember to BOOK NOW for the Inland championships at Grafham. Don't get caught out by the late entry fee after this Friday the 16th March as the event is now only two weeks away.

G.

Toppers at the Youth Nationals?

Good Luck to all 28 Scottish Dinghy Sailors representing us at the 2010 RYA Youth Nationals this week. It is great to see that more than half of our Team are past or present competitors in the Topper. This shows the incredible strength of the Topper as an RYA Junior Class feeding in to both the single handed and two man Youth pathway classes.

RYA Scotland High Performance Manager Nick Scott says "best of luck to all those attending and I look forward to some great racing and results!"

RYA Scotland will this year be endeavouring to keep you all fully updated as the UK’s premier Youth Racing Event unfolds in Weymouth from the 3^rd to the 9^th April 2010.

To keep you in the loop there will comments and updates throughout the event online which can be accessed through the link below:

http://twitter.com/ryassquads

You do not need to be registered to view these updates but if you are a member of twitter and click to follow us you will be notified of all the updates throughout the event.

There is also an RYA blog which can be accessed from the event microsite

for any anxious parents who want to follow the event from their office or laptop.