Saturday July 24th: Members of the Port Navas Yacht Club sailed to Black Rock and back.
First boats home:
Sprats – Charlie Green in Daphne
Pilchards – David Crafts in Zag Zig
Mackerels – Jonathan Thornton in Calico
Gaffers – Tom Green in Panhaggarty
Black Dog, flying under the PNYC burgee, took first place in the IRC South West Championships in Dartmouth at the start of this month and also won the 1st Overall IRC 1 at the Royal Dartmouth Regatta, thereby ending the season in some style. Congratulations to all who sailed on her throughout the season.
Black Dog has won the RORC IRC National Championships – again. So that’s two national wins for this PNYC registered boat – 2019 and 2021. The team has been racing for 11 years and this year Stuart Sawyer’s team was joined by double Olympic Silver Medallist, Nick Rogers. “We are delighted” said Stuart. “We…
It happened! After a seven year pause and inspite of dire weather warnings of Force 11 winds a couple of days before the race, our Black Rock challenge took place on Saturday. We had 12 hearty boat crews ranging from a classic gaffer to a 26ft racing catamaran to a 44ft modern Jeanneau. The plan was to start from…
We had a cracking days racing last Saturday. 10 boats in 3 classes with stunning weather, choppy seas and a good breeze. It was a race around The Manacles and back, some 10 nautical miles. Two out of three of our own boats were working so Finn and I were the committee boat, equipped with…
We have three boats racing under the PNYC burgee – Black Dog, Rebecca of Helford and Juno. Black Dog came first in the IRC Class 1at the Dartmouth Royal Regatta last weekend – see this link for results: dartmouthsailingweek.com/single/latest-results
Rebecca of Helford took part against five other boats in the annual Currie and Brown Cup organised by St Mawes Sailing Club. After three laps of the course Rebecca was leading and probably would have gone on to win. Unfortunately Rebecca and four other boats all misread their sailing instructions and were disqualified, leaving Ruby,…
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