Lough Foyle Yacht Club

* Handicap values will be adjusted as season progresses. New sailors handicaps will be awarded as the need arises.

Due to inclement weather racing is cancelled on sat 23rd March.

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2011 Race reports (archive)

2010 Race reports (archive)

Lough Foyle Yacht Club Sailing Programme 2012

Notes:

Tide times stated are actual Lisahally times

All Club Racing must start on time scheduled as tides won’t wait (Nor competitors)

GP14 Association of Ireland Dates

April 14-15 OTairnaigh Challenge Swords

May 12-13 Purcell Cushendall

June 16-17 Leinsters Greystones

July 20-22 Nationals Ballyholme

August 12-17 Worlds Looe

August 25-26 Ulsters East Antrim

September 22-23 Autumn Open Sligo

October 20-21 Hot Toddy Lough Erne

Event report here

Lough Foyle Yacht Club

Culmore Point

Derry/Londonderry

NOTICE OF RACE

GP14 Class Ulster Championships 2013

27^th & 28^th July  2013

First Race: 12:00 Sat 27^th July, 11:00 Sun 28^th July

Registration: at LFYC, Culmore Point, Fri 26^th July 18:00-22:00, Sat 2th July 09:00-10.00

Fee: £40/€45  (£35/€40 early entry; telephone/e-mail contact below)

Saturday Night Dining: at LFYC.

Full Sailing Instructions At Registration

Contact Daniel Gallagher:  0044 7720464085

daniel at lisahally dot com

or

Colum Farrelly:  0044 7714343841

columfarrelly at btinternet dot com

NB: It is City Of Culture year! Book accommodation early:

http://www.derryvisitor.com/Derry-Accommodation.T428.aspx

Many thanks to Peter Fallon for organising this event.

Thanks also to all the people who helped with rescue cover, mark laying. And special thanks to Joan D who was the OD and timekeeper.

16 boats competed for this inagural Peace Bridge race including three visiting boats from Coleraine. It was great to have their participation and support.

Peter Fallon and James F was blighted with organisers luck and retired from the race after getting stuck in a windless patch near the steep banks at Thornhill.

The fleet split into two equal sized groups. The first group had gained a lead of about 2o boat lengths when the whole fleet was becalmed. That small lead was critical as the lead group managed to slip the grip of the dead patch while the following group sat there for another 30 minutes.

Eventually everyone got underway in moderate winds (F3).

We were pleased that David Thomas of Thomas the Jeweller took part in the race. David made the wonderful trophy that the winner would bring home. David sailed in Dermot M’s phantom while Dermot and Cecil T took out the Icon. Near the Navigation Mark near Sainsburys David Thomas was heard cheerfully shouting for water on Dermot M.

The second group began to feel the effect of the turning tide as they struggled to round the mark at the peace bridge in another patch of reduced winds. As the second group drew close to Culmore the wind picked up to such an extent that Anton and Jack H struggled for a while just to keep in the boat.

David Thomas took line honours on the day but the adjusted PY times gave overall victory to Keith L and Dessie H who expertly sailed their GP14 over the tricky course.

See you next year for the 2013 City of Culture edition of the Peace Bridge Race.

Dermot M and Cecil T in the Icon are competing very well at the top of the fleet with Ken and David L. It is clear that Dermot and Cecil have mastered the new boat.

Three short races were held

Congratulations to all who braved the weather. Special note regarding Bill and James J who were sailing very well. That first overall place was decided not on position but on total lapsed time shows that it was very close race. The second race was very short indeed lasting just 10 minutes with 45 seconds separating first boat from the sixth. Well done to the OD who recorded those times. Many thanks to George D who hosted the events this year as on so many prior close of season races. This year the hot whiskeys were served in the castle and brewed from the flask.

A reduced fleet raced in Culmore today as many boats were in Sligo at the GP14

Junior championships and the Autumn Open. Full reports from Sligo can be found here.

Culmore results:

A very windy day. Sailing a zig zag course starting in Culmore then around the point to Faughan.

NOTICE OF RACE

2012 Lough Foyle Yacht Club

The 1^st Culmore Point to the Peace Bridge and back race,

for

the newly commissioned

John Hume and University of Ulster trophy

6^th October 2012, 10.00am, Culmore Point

NOTES

This is the first race for an elegant trophy in the iconic shape of the Peace Bridge. It was made by David Thomas, Jeweller and kindly sponsored by the University of Ulster through the office of the late Professor Jim Allen. The trophy is named after John Hume with the aim of supporting sailing in Lough Foyle.

GUIDELINES

The race will be governed by the rules as defined by The RYA rules for Dinghy sailing. This is an OPEN sailing race. All are welcome.

ELIGIBILITY & ENTRY

The race is open to all classes of sailing dinghies using the PY system of handicap.

VENUE

The races will be start and finish at Culmore Point sailing up the river to a mark laid near the Peace Bridge and back down the river observing all Navigation Marks.

SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

The sailing instructions will be available at a skippers meeting on shore before the racing starts. A protest committee will be formed (if required) by the OD and the Commodore.

SCHEDULE.

Racing will start at 10.00am

PRIZE

The winner will be entitled to write his/her name and the name of their crew(s) and boat name on the scroll of winners located inside the trophy. The winner will be entitled to keep the trophy for a period of one year and will be asked to present the trophy to next year’s winner.

RIGHTS TO USE NAMES & LIKENESSES

Competitors automatically grant to LFYC without payment the right in perpetuity to make, use and show any motion pictures, still pictures and live, taped or filmed television of or relating to the event.

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

Competitors are entirely responsible for their own safety, whether afloat or ashore, and nothing reduces this responsibility. It is for competitors to decide whether their boat and its helm and crew are fit to sail in the conditions that they might find. By launching or going on the water competitors confirm their boat is fit for those conditions and that they are competent to sail and compete in them. Nothing done by the organizers can reduce the responsibility of the owners and/or competitors, nor will it make the organizers responsible for any loss, damage, death or personal injury, however it may have occurred, as a result of the boat taking part in the racing. The organizers encompass everyone helping to run the event and include the organizing authority, race committee, race officer, safety officer, patrol boat personnel and beach masters. The provision of patrol boats does not relieve owners and competitors of their responsibilities.

INSURANCE

Each participating boat shall be insured with valid third-party liability insurance.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Contact;

LFYC Commodore: Anthony Hutton: antovoda at googlemail dot com

Lough Foyle Yacht Club