The 2010 MYA IOM National Championships will be held over the weekend of May 29th - 31st at West Kirby Sailing Club.

Situated on the Wirral Peninsula, it will also be the venue for the 2011 World Championships.

Supported by the MYA, ( Model Yachting Association) MYA Northern District and West Kirby Sailing Club, it will be attended by some of the top skippers from the UK and Europe.

It is open to any skipper who is a member of the MYA or affiliates to it via other organisations.



This site will be the place for all your information relating to this event, before, during and after the event.

SAT NAV Details- CH48 3HZ




Friday, 11 June 2010

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Photos from Hanneke Gillissen & John Kline, video by Greg King

Hanneke has started to put her photos of the weekend on Picassa, so for a complete set of her pictures visit here


John Kline also took some photos which can be found here

Greg King has posted some video clips on you tube here
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010

A competitors view No1

VALUE FOR MONEY AT WEST KIRBY SAILING CLUB

72 boats from 7 countries, 3 days of racing on good long challenging courses, marvelous race management, wonderful hospitality, very different wind conditions, not too much rain, good food, good company, and a 3rd place for me!!! What more can I say?
As competitors we paid £22.50 entry fee and a further £18.50 "meal deal" thats £41.
For our £41 we got:-
At least 16 races each (more if you were promoted)
Buffet lunch on Sat (served by the nice ladies of the WKSC)
BBQ lunch on Sunday.
2 course meal on Sunday night and get together at the sailing club.
BBQ lunch on Monday.
Non stop tea & coffee all weekend.

If you missed it, and you could have been there, you missed a great event.

But all of this begs the following question.

If we can run 72 boats (only 4 less than the number in a Worlds or European champs) in 5 or 4 fleets and feed everyone lunch each day and unlimited tea & coffee and dinner one evening, WHY are we being asked to pay 8 times as much to enter the Europeans??

Derek
Lintel 167
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Thursday, 3 June 2010

MORE PHOTO'S AVAILABLE

Apologies for the link being incorrect.

Click here for the correct link to more photos.

We have plenty of images that we are converting ready for the web, but if anyone has photos or video that you would like to share with us please email: sailing@ashbyroadeast.demon.co.uk with the details.

The Birkenhead Club has a link to images by one of their members.
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Tuesday, 1 June 2010

FINAL POSITIONS MYA IOM NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010


FINAL POSITIONS


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For anyone that was not able to come along to West Kirby last weekend here is a link to the flickr site for some very dramatic photos from the Sunday. There are many more to follow that may take up to a week to upload. Keep an eye on this site.


CLICK HERE


Gsa
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Final Day

The final day was a tense affair, the wind direction and strength (lack of) causing problems for competitors and organisers alike.

The final results will be posted soon, but we can report that going into the final race anyone of 4 skippers were still in with a chance of victory, Zvonko Jelacic, John Tushingham, Derek Priestley and Martin Roberts, with Zvonko Jelacic from Croatia coming out on top overall from John Tushingham in 2nd, Derek Priestley in 3rd and Brad Gibson in 4th.

A fuller report will be coming along with all the pictures once competitors and organisers recover from a busy weekend.

A quick resume of the weekend though would be; excellent venue, great organisation, fantastic racing.

Well done to everyone for making the event a success.
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