April 08: Following the RYA Youth Championships and Trials at Pwllheli earlier in the month Kathryn Twemlow and her Partner Jean Furness from Rugby have been selected as members of the RYA National Youth Squad for the 29er class.

The squad comprises the leading 5 all girl teams and the leading 5 all boy teams at the event. Kathryn and Jean were the fourth placed all girl team.

This success gives access to Coaching from Steve Irish (who is also the Olympic 470 coach) over the coming months.

The next major event is the Europeans at Medemblik but before that there is the small matter of the GCSE exams !

Notts County Junior Sailors' Success at Topper Nationals The Topper class held its Inland Championships (full, 5.3 sq m, rigs) and its 4.2 sq.m National Championships over the weekend of 3rd and 4th May at Grafham Water. The weather held good for two excellent days sailing with 3 races held on the Saturday in sunny F3 conditions and two more completed on the Sunday in similar conditions, the final race being abandoned as the wind died away and the heat built up in the afternoon.

Two NCSC juniors took part with great success: Anastasia Logan claimed 3rd in the Regatta fleet with a consistent set of results in the 9 races completed by this fleet. In the Sailing Solutions 4.2 Nationals Lawrence Logan came a very creditable 2nd in a hard fought contest with 2 wins and a second. A fifth or better in his worst counting race would have given him the championship!

4.2 Topper Nationals results (top 5 shown, 21 entries): 2nd 226 Lawrence LOGAN Notts County Sailing Club

Regatta Fleet (Top 5 shown, 21 competitors) 3 206 Anastasia LOGAN Notts County Sailing Club