Finally, for the first time in over 19 months the Hansa Class UK have been able to run a Traveller Trophy Event on 24th April. It wasn t quite the scale or format of old, but everybody agreed that it was fantastic to be able to take part in competitive racing again and to see old friends; albeit in a more socially distanced way than historically.
Whitefriars Sailing Club was the venue. The entry was capped at 15 boats to limit the number of people on site, and people were encouraged to use Hansa or Whitefriars boats rather than travelling with their own. There was a skeleton team of volunteers on hand to help with rigging, launching, and hoisting. Since indoor space is not being used at present, the schedule was shortened so that people weren t outside for too long. Three back to back races were run of approximately 30-40 minutes long instead of the typical 4 races with a break for lunch, this also helped to minimize the pinch points. Unfortunately there was no catering, so the vol
The final places in the Hansa GUL Christmas Virtual Regatta Series went down to the wire. On Tuesday 15th December at 6pm twelve sailors got together for the last five races of the series, with some logging in to Zoom as well to enjoy the banter. This has been taking place for the last ten weeks, so 50 races have been completed with 30 to count.
After seven weeks Richard Codling s lead seemed unassailable. Sailing under the pseudo name of VonPigeon his nearest rival was 69 points behind, and that was John Norman who is also from the Woolverstone Project. The races were scored using the high score method, with the winner getting points equal to the number of sailors who started the race, second place one point less etc. Close behind John were the four previous podium placed sailors from the two previous series : David Durston, Rory McKinna, Paul Phillips, and Paul Holzherr.