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Great to see that sailing has two nominations for the IOM Sports Awards. Under 21 Sportsman – Greg Kelly, who is the RS Tera World Champion, RS Tera Inland Champion and RYA North West Regional Sailor of the Year. And in the Coach category…. erm…. well…. there’s me!

In time for Port Erin’s Xmas Tree festival big switch on and late night opening our shop is decorated. We opted not to put a tree on a bracket outside the shop as we didn’t think it would survive the wind down here. Sure enough when I arrived at the shop yesterday our flag and flagpole were clattering about on the pavement no longer connected to the bracket!

So… we’ve been a wee bit creative, our Christmas tree is indoors and needle free, it’s been fashioned from some driftwood and a fishing net found on the beach and is probably the most nautical ‘tree’ in Port Erin? Get yourselves down for a skeet!

Manx Youth Sailing Squad member and RS Tera World Champion, Greg Kelly has won the RYA Regional Sailor of the Year Award for the North West. Greg finished fourth at this year’s National championship, first at the Worlds and first at the Inlands.

This winter Greg is training with the RS Tera GBR National Squad in preparation for the Worlds at the Olympic sailing venue in Weymouth next summer. He has also teamed up with fellow Tera sailor George Catchpole to make the move into the RS Feva class on the UK circuit in 2013.

We are already looking forward to the 2013 season.  Youth Sailing Week bookings are flying in fast, so please contact us soon to ensure you get the week you want.

Dates for all our 2013 courses are now live on this site and are correct at the moment!  If it’s dinghy sailing or powerboating that interests you 7th Wave is the place to be next summer.  If you’d like to book your courses and get your summer plans arranged nice and early please contact us…..

Well, it’s the end of this summer’s Youth Sailing Weeks 🙁 And despite all the rain and the absence of sun it has been a great 9 weeks. Huge thanks to Alex Sharpe, Tom Howitt, Luke Collins, Rowan Henthorn, Andrew George Wilson Paul, Izzy Sharpe, Katie Hill, Alison Hinds, Sarah Mercer, Connor Corkish-Sewell, Dave Kneale, Mum, Dad and everyone else that has helped pull trolleys up the beach, fix things, keep the tractor running, provided moral support and generally been there for us 🙂

Thanks also to all our wonderful sailors, who’ve worked hard, had fun and kept smiling and cheerful in the rain! I am sad it’s finished so soon, it’s been fun being on the water with you all.

At the end of yesterday’s racing it looked like Greg Kelly could not be beaten on points going into the final race. Now we have confirmation, the final race at the RS Tera World Championship is complete and Manx Youth Sailing Squad member Greg Kelly will be awarded the RS Tera World Championship Trophy later today.

Greg’s older brother James won the event in 2010, also with one race to spare. This year for Greg it has been a tough battle, he has worked his way from 3rd after day 2 to 2nd on day 3 and outright first after day 4. Greg has won four races in this 10 race series as is the clear winner by 19 points! Speaking to me from Italy Greg said “It’s absolutely amazing and great to win”, I know how much this means to him after last season where he finished fourth at every major championship he attended.

The whole of the Manx Youth Sailing Squad have put in an outstanding performance with each sailor finishing in the top 10 overall. Ffinlo Wright will be disappointed to have missed out on the podium by one place, but at age 12 this youngster shows bright promise for the future. Amie Shute competing at her final Tera Worlds has finished 9th overall and 4th girl.

Competing at his first ever World Championship, 11 year old, Ben Batchelor’s goal was to finish in the top 20, I am delighted to say that Ben actually finished in 10th place overall in 40 strong RS Tera Sport fleet. Again the future looks bright for Manx sailing.

The Manx Youth Sailing Squad was formed by Jenni Kneale, Don Edwards, Phil Hardisty and Rob Cowell in 2008. The aim was to train a squad who would take part in two national events each year. The sailors have exceeded all expectations and can now boast training three World Champions!

Greg Kelly is now lying in first place at the RS Tera World Championship. There is only one race to go and Greg now has an 8 point lead over his nearest rival. And as if that wasn’t enough Ffinlo Wright is in 3rd place overall!

All four members of the Manx Youth Sailing Squad are in the top 10 going into the final race tomorrow. Amie Shute is 8th place in the Pro fleet and Ben Batchelor is in 8th place in the Sport fleet. Go team IOM!!

At the first windward mark of the first race today Manx boats went round in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th 🙂

Full results for the Manx sailors after 7 races at the RS Tera World Championship look like this:

Pro Fleet:
Greg Kelly 2nd
Ffinlo Wright 3rd
Amie Shute 7th

Sport fleet:
Ben Batchelor 12th

In today’s three races Greg was 1st, 11th, 1st. Ffinlo 7th, 1st, 2nd. Amie 3rd, 17th, 14th. Ben in the Sport fleet was 18th, 13th, 6th.

Greg Kelly is now lying in second place, three points behind the leader at the RS Tera World Championship and Ffinlo Wright is in third place overall. A great day for Manx sailing with Greg winning two races today and Ffinlo winning the other one! There are three races left in the series….

Our Manx sailors have won all three of today’s races at the RS Tera World Championship!! WOW!!

Greg Kelly won the first and third race and Ffinlo Wright won the second race. This will be Ffinlo’s first race win at a major championship, well done guys 🙂