To celebrate our fifth birthday in May this year’s brochure includes a collection of photos from 2006 onwards in the form of an A2 poster.
Brochures will be in the post to all our existing customers tomorrow. If you’re not on our mailing list and would like a copy please get in touch.
PSM Lifeboat was launched about 1pm today, in some pretty rough weather, to go to the aid of a windsurfer in distress at Derbyhaven.
The windsurfer was blown in to the beach and recovered by the coastguard who were on scene. Boat was stood down and back on station by 1.30pm.
Just completing a superb week of training at the Lifeboat College in Poole. The NAVSAR (search and rescue navigation) course has been a great experience and the training is top notch. Just an assessment on station back home to get through at some point in the next few months.
Home tomorrow and looking forward to the forthcoming season at 7th Wave. The first course of 2011 is RYA Yachtmaster Theory starting on Saturday 🙂
We will be sending our last pre-Christmas order to Gill Marine on Friday. Foul weather gear, dinghy sailing gear, thermal layers, waterproofs, shore wear, sailing knives… it’s all here:
If you’d like to order anything let us know by Friday lunchtime.
The coastguard and lifeboat were called to search for a possible missing person on Bradda Head yesterday evening. During the course of the search three illuminating parachute flares were fired, one of which was taken by the wind and started a fire on the headland. Fortunately it landed below the lower path, the path prevented the fire from spreading. Fire crews had it under control within a hour or so. The search was called off at around 9pm.
Jon attended an Advanced Powerboat Instructor course at the Scottish National Sailing Centre on Cumbrae Island recently. It was a two day course, which also included a night nav exercise which didn’t finish until 11.30pm on the Saturday night!
He passed the course and his certificate arrived through the post yesterday.
We now need to apply for RYA Recognition to run the RYA Intermediate and Advanced Powerboat courses, but hope to bring you both of these courses by the beginning of the summer….
I have read two superb books this week; Left for Dead by Nick Ward, a truly amazing and inspiring story of one man’s survival which is beyond incredible and Fastnet, Force 10 by John Rousmaniere which describes the experiences of many competitors during that 1979 Fastnet Race.
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| From end oct 2010 |
7th Wave Team: Ffinlo Wright, Greg Kelly and Tony Pitt
The Topper Challenge was held in the traditional light winds at Mooragh Park last Sunday (31st October). Four teams competed with entries from the Venture Centre, 7th Wave, Isle of Man Yacht Club and King William’s College. Each team consisted of three members all aged 16 and under, boats and safety boats were kindly provided by the Venture Centre.
A total of six races were sailed which allowed each team to race every other team once. The team with the lowest cumlative points in a race was the winner of that race. The overall winners were the team winning the most races.
Many of the competitors have competed in the event for three or four years running and it is superb to see how over the years the sailors have started to develop team strategies, tactical thinking and great communication between team mates.
A two-lap triangular course was set and there was some very close racing. The Venture Centre, Isle of Man Yacht Club and King William’s College each won two races and lost one. The team from 7th Wave sailed another excellent series winning all three of their races and retaining the Topper Challenge Trophy for the fourth year in a row!
The trophy was presented by Nigel Hendy, the founder of the Topper Challenge, to 7th Wave’s team Greg Kelly, Ffinlo Wright and Tony Pitt.
Results:
1st: 7th Wave (Greg Kelly, Ffinlo Wright, Tony Pitt)
2nd = Venture Centre (Amie Shute, Matthew Reed and Alfie Leech)
2nd = Isle of Man Yacht Club (Harriet Quayle, James Kelly, Ben Batchelor)
3rd King William’s College (Izzy Sharpe, Hannah Howitt, Conal Hansford)
The Manx Youth Sailing Squad have just returned home from the RS Tera Inland Championship with the overall Team Trophy, to complete a very successful year of sailing. In the past 12 months the Manx Youth Sailing Squad have been crowned National Team Champions and Inland Team Champions, James Kelly became the RS Tera World Champion and Hannah Howitt is the RS Tera Women’s World Champion. Five Manx sailors have also been selected to join the GBR RS Tera Squad for 2011.
A team of eight Manx sailors attended the Inland Championship at Rutland Water this weekend, with a new fleet of boats sponsored by Royal Skandia Ltd, AM Ltd and the Manx Lottery Trust. The four more senior sailors competed in the twenty strong RS Tera Pro fleet and the four junior sailors sailed in the RS Tera Sport fleet consisting of 30 boats.
Saturday was a very breezy day which the Manx girls in the Pro fleet enjoyed, each scoring at least one result in the top five during the three races, Amie Shute put in her best performance yet with a fourth in Race 1. World Champion James Kelly suffered a broken mast in Race 1, a broken rudder in Race 2 and as a result was unable to compete in Race 3, putting him out of contention for a prize during the weekend.
In the Sport fleet Greg Kelly and Ffinlo Wright sailed well in the wind with Greg finishing consistently in fifth place and Ffinlo achieiving top ten results for the first time in his sailing career. Matthew Petts and Ben Batchelor the newest and smallest squad members stuggled with Saturday’s windy conditions.
A further three races were sailed in more moderate breeze on Sunday. Izzy Sharpe sailed consistently in the Pro fleet with a third and two fifths finishing in 3rd place overall. James Kelly found his form again and ended the series with a win in the final race.
In the Sport fleet Greg Kelly again sailed in fifth place consistently until the final race which he also won, meaning the Manx team ended the series with a bullet each for the Kelly brothers in the last race of the day. Ffinlo kept his concentration throughout the final day and finished 10th overall. Matthew and Ben completed all Sunday’s races and Ben even finished 8th in race 5, a great result for the nine year old at his first national competition.
The Inland Team Champions Trophy is awarded to the Club with the highest placed three finishers. Izzy Sharpe 3rd in the Pro fleet, Greg Kelly 5th in the Sport fleet and Hannah Howitt 6th in the Pro fleet won the award for the Manx Youth Sailing Squad sailing under the Isle of Man Yacht Club flag. Izzy, Hannah, Amie, Greg and Ffinlo were selected to join the GBR Squad for 2011 and will compete at the World Championship in Denmark in the summer. James will be moving in to the Laser Radial class.
Pro Fleet Overall Results:
Izzy Sharpe (age 14) 3rd
Hannah Howitt (age 15) 6th
Amie Shute (age 13) 12th
James Kelly (age 13) 14th
Sport Fleet Overall Results:
Greg Kelly (age 12) 5th
Ffinlo Wright (age 10) 10th
Ben Batchelor (age 9) 19th
Matthew Petts (age 10) 23rd
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| From oct 2010 |
NOTICE OF RACE – TOPPER CHALLENGE 2010
The Topper Challenge will be held on Sunday 31st October at Mooragh Park, Ramsey.
Eligibilty & Entries
Entries are invited from:
Ard Whallin Outdoor Centre
IOMYC
King Williams College
Maughold Venture Centre
MS&CC
7th Wave
Centres may enter one team of three people, competitors may only sail for one team. Entrants must be aged 16 or under on the day of the competition.
Closing date for entries is Friday 23rd October please email teams / entries to jen@7thwave-iom.com
Venue & Format
Competitors briefing will be at 12.30pm by the Mooragh Park Cafe. First race will start promptly after the briefing.
The Topper Challenge is a team racing event, all teams will race each other, the winning team shall be the team scoring the greatest number of race wins.
Courses, sailing instructions and rule amendments will be announced at the competitors briefing.
Boats
All boats will be provided.
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| Topper Challenge 2008 |
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| From Topper Challenge 2008 |
