Racing Hut Update

After the demise of our racing hut in Storm Daragh in December 2024, it has been a gradual task to rebuild the facilities.

First of all thanks again to Gimblet Rock Holiday Park who paid for our new shed.

Without this and club members and volunteers who erected it in March 2025, we just wouldn’t have a racing bridge at all.

Thanks to everyone involved.

Huge thanks, of course, to Robin who gives so much of his time every year to manage our racing but we do realise that he does have a life outside of sailing too, so during this summer more volunteers have been at work.

With new technology available these days we now have the makings of an automated race officer, for when Robin is busy or away on some much needed R&R.

Thanks to our volunteers who braved the extreme summer heat to put this in place.

Thanks also to Yr Olygfa - The View for their very welcome, very much needed (and unexpected) refreshments for our volunteers.

With the Autumn series now underway, it has been the ideal time to test it out and adapt to the new technology. As a result of these there has been the need to make an amendment to the general SI’s (Below).

We’ll continue to monitor and adapt as we go along so keep an eye out for more info on our website. If you fancy getting involved in race management, even if it is simply to give our race officers some company while watching the racing, please get in touch. We always need new members and more volunteers. There is truly something for everyone.

General Racing Sailing Instructions - Amendment 1 - 2nd October 2026

The following is added to point 11.1:

OCS under Automated Race Officer – Start line videos will be inspected after racing and any boat found to be over at the start will be given a 5% time penalty applied to their elapsed time in that race.