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This year Speed Sails again showed superb consistancy through out the GP14 fleet. The nationals were held at Abersoch and the conditions were very varied proving a good test for all sailors.

Mike & Liz Senior showed excellent pace as always and finished a very creditable 3rd in their new Duffin hull & NEW Speed mast, Shane MacCarthy & Andy Davis sailing a Winder Hull finished 5th. Both boats were using Aeroweb. This year the fleet was very strong, helms and crews in the top 7 had either won a world, national or european title in various classes, this made for very close and exciting racing. Olympic hopefull Stuart Bithell crewed by Christian Birrell Finished on top of a very close fought week.

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A huge congratulations to Nick Craig on winning his fourth world title! 

Here at Speed Sails we have put many hours into developing our OK sails, Jim Hunt who was the first British sailor to win the OK worlds back in 2004 by a huge 32 point margin worked closely with Nick to develop our latest radial mainsail.

The Worlds and Uk Nationals were held at Largs in Scotland, the weather was very tricky with a light forecast through out both championships. 

Next Year the Worlds will be in Denmark for the 50th anniversary and we will be commited as ever to help Nick reach his fifth title.

Our new solo showed it can take on the competition at this years Solo Nationals which were held at Abersoch.

Speed Sails stepped in and without much practice this year showed great results throughout the week. Speeds comments on the week were " The boat felt great down wind and seemed faster than others around me, there were many times i didn't have a great first beat, mostly due to lack of practice but by the leeward mark on the first lap I found myself in top 3 or top 5." 

Abersoch gave all conditions and really tested the sailors hard Speed Finished 3rd overall just 6 points off Matt Howard who won and four points from Charlie Cumberly in second.

We used the Speed radial kevlar mainsail with carbon battens, the same setup that Speed had been using pre-season.

A big thank you to Phil Milanes whose boat Andy borrowed.

Alan Henry and Simon Reville in 14 / 125, Slipstream, won the 2011 IDRA National Championships at Galway Bay Sailing Club. Alan Carr and Ian McCormack in 14 / 38, Starfish, finished in second place. Third place went to Pat O'Neill and Jim O'Hara in 14 / 15 Delos II from CYBC.

Six races were held over three days In strong winds that reached force 6, with gusts over 25 knots, that led to many capsizes. 
Jim Lambkin and Wendy Rudd in 14 / 1, Error, (placed 6th) and Charles Sargent and Ed Fleming in 14 / 126, Smurfette, - both from SDC - (placed 15th) were among the few boats to remain upright throughout this challenging event.

SDC sailors have a strong track record at the IDRA nationals. This year was Alan Henry's 5th time to win the event and Alan Carr has won the IDRA nationals three times. Scorie Walls and Terry Harvey are two other SDC sailors whose names are engraved several times on the IDRA national championship trophy. 

The Solo Midland traveller event took place at Pitsford in light, variable winds.

Thirteen boats ventured out to a calm reservoir hoping for the breeze to fill in enough to start racing and after a short delay, a little wind did fill in allowing a small course to be set.

All three races were managed with victory for the new Speed Solo as well as a win for Speed Sails sailmaker Chris Gould in his first solo open. In light winds Chris pulled away with an edge of boatspeed on the rest of the fleet, posting two firsts and a second from the days racing. Chris said that he was pleased with the win and hoped to do more Midlands Solo events in the future.

Simon Cowood using a Phantom Aeroweb mainsail won 2 races to take the Bartley Open Meeting and Neil Boneham also using Aeroweb finished second and took a race win.

Look out for Nick Craig this weekend also Using Aeroweb at this years Nationals, hopefully Nick will be able to defend his title at Lyme Regis.

Good Luck!