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Wednesday evening racing and social has started
Fantastic evening at Burghfield for the first Wednesday evening race and social, 30 plus boats enjoyed a fantastic course covering most of the lake with Pippa in the Oppi starting and finishing first, just holding off the Fire Inland Champion David Shafto. The introduction this year of Personal Handicaps taken from last year encouraged close racing throughout the fleet, at one point 8 boats were calling for room at buoy 7, also great to see
Published 07:45 on 18 Apr 2024
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It is with great regret that this weekend's Merlin Rocket ST Open has been postponed owing to adverse weather forecasts
The Open Meeting organiser has taken the decision to postponed the Merlin Rocket Open Meeting on Saturday due to the adverse weather forecast, we are extremely disappointed, however will be working with the Merlin Rocket Association to re-schedule the event for later in the year. The organiser will also be in-touch with the pre-entries to refund the entry fees.
Published 16:17 on 4 Apr 2024
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RS Aero Open 2024
Fifteen RS Aeros were greeted by a blustery Burghfield with all the promise of an exciting day's racing that did not disappoint! The fleet divided cleanly for Class racing with RS Aero 7s and RS Aero 5s and it was all on for 4 races, split by a nice lunch break in the club to recuperate! Each race was 2 laps with a downwind slalom covering all the angles and giving two gybes. After
Published 09:15 on 28 Mar 2024
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FIre Inlands Results
A turnout of 9 boats were treated to Burghfield at its gusty best! The morning racing gave the sailors some testing conditions, massive gusts and rain across the lake caused capsizes and planing reaches, which gave the Balcony fleet some great viewing and obviously in their heads race wins! At lunch the race wins were shared between David Shafto and Douglas Clow, each with a one, two, so the afternoon was all to play
Published 09:07 on 25 Mar 2024
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Fire Inlands & Blaze & Aero Open Bookings Open
Entries now open https://www.burghfieldsailing.org/event/fire-inland-championships-and-blaze-open
Published 21:04 on 13 Feb 2024
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RS Aero UK Youth Championships 2023 - Burghfield SC, Reading, UK, 25/26 Nov
RS Aero UK Youth Championships 2023 - Burghfield SC, Reading, UK, 25/26 Nov Thanks to all at Burghfield SC for putting on an excellent weekend despite testing conditions. Thanks to Tom Jones for his summary; Burghfield Sailing Club welcomed twenty lively, up and coming young RS Aero youth sailors to compete for the UK National Youth Champion titles. Joining them was American Dylan Williams, flying over for the camaraderie
Published 12:55 on 27 Nov 2023
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BURGHFIELD 1st and 2nd at the Endeavour Trophy
Nick Craig and Toby Lewis win 2023 Endeavour Trophy Congratulations to the Burghfield Sailors Nick Craig for taking the win and and Matt Mee and Chris Martin for finishing in 2nd place, a fantastic write up on Yachts and Yachting, we all look forward to welcoming you back to the club over the coming weeks and competing against you!
Published 10:41 on 9 Oct 2023
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The 1st Burghfield SUP Event on the 30th Sept was a great success
SUP Racing - its a wrap, the first SUP Open was held on Saturday 30th Sept and feedback from competitors, spectators and our partners Gowiththeflo has been amazing. Although it was a windy afternoon, all competitors made it round their courses and with the youngest at 6 years old and many taking part in their first SUP race the challenge was immense. The men's winner (and current Polish SUP champion) Dawid
Published 09:25 on 29 Sep 2023
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SUMMER SERIES AM WINNERS
Congratulations to the following sailors in the summer series AM We saw a total entry of 79 boats enter the morning series over the summer with a total of 16 different race winners across the 3 fleets. Spinnaker AM 1 st RS400 - James Anderson 2 nd RS500 - John Cooper and Andy Maw 3rd RS 200
Published 14:49 on 22 Sep 2023
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Autumn Series Dates & NOR
The Autumn Series NOR has been released and will be run on the following 10 weekends. Sunday Oct 1 st ,8 th ,15 th ,29 th Sunday Nov 5 th ,12 th ,19 th Sunday Dec 3 rd ,10 th ,17 th
Published 19:04 on 19 Sep 2023
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Introduction to Racing and Improvers Session
This Saturday we are hosting another Improvers session, this will be also helping people get an understanding of racing, also if anyone is around to help with the session and provide tips it would be much appreciated, Further information can be found on the Burghfield Members Facebook event and the event page on the website. https://fb.me/e/3kDVQSSgy Burghfield Sailing Club : Introduction to Racing and Improvers Session
Published 17:27 on 18 Sep 2023
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BARTS BASH 10
Thanks to everyone who came down and supported Bart's Bash 10 yesterday hosted with our partners ASWC. We saw a great turnout of 47 boats on the water including the Oppie Club competing in their first race! A particular thanks to the race committee for managing to keep track of everyone even when they all came through the line at once and to the safety crews for keeping an eye on those
Published 17:12 on 18 Sep 2023
