Leicestershire and Rutland Youth Sailing Association

Boat Tow to Bridlington

If anyone can help out by towing a boat from Roundhills Sailing Association up to Bridlington for the regatta could they please contact Wendy Kay on 07512 650977 or by email .

Request for Volunteers

Due to the growth of the LRYSA we are in urgent need of more volunteers covering a variety of roles. 

General Secretary for the committee

Minutes Secretary for committee meetings

Volunteer sailing instructors and particularly senior instructors, for example a retired SI who would like to help 1 day a week to take some of the weight off Colin. If you would like to work towards your assistant or full intstructors qualifications this could be arranged.

For further information on any of these roles or if you would like to join the commitee, please contact Colin, his details can be found through the 'contact' link on the left. 

NSSA Regatta at Bridlington

Information about the event is starting to appear here .

Team training with the Cambridge Team will be held at Rutland this weekend (27th/28th June). Please remember to arrive early (8:30-9) to ensure you are rigged and ready for launching at 10am or you will be left behind!  For further information speak to Colin.

Training: If you have questions or requests to work on particular aspects of training, then Jon and Adam would like to hear from you. Speak to them on Friday nights or email them (their addresses can be found in the group emails). 

Regatta at Roundhills

Another successful regatta, despite heavy rain showers and problems with the starting horn! Our photographer had to make use of alternative transport to his usual powerboat (Photo: Maria Mcevoy). 

First regatta of the season

The start of the regatta season is now upon us and the first regatta is being held on Sunday 26th April at BWT. Please note that we will STRICTLY be working to the rule of "no correctly signed consent form means no sailing". This applies to all sailors under 18.  This is particularly important for anyone being dropped off at the gate, they must bring a copy of the form with them correctly signed by their parent or carer as otherwise they will not be allowed on the water. Forms are available on our downloads page.

If there's anyone new out there wondering how to get involved then please see the rest of the site to learn more about what we are doing at get in touch to find out more. Please note that the aim of our regattas is to give racing opportunities to less experienced sailors. For this reason we reserve the right to exclude young sailors racing at National or Zone level, or other equivalent higher standard.  Please contact Colin for further information on any of these matters.

Friday night racing

Just a reminder that Friday night race training is running at BWT every Friday, 5.00 - 7.30.

2008 Hinckley and Bosworth Local Sports Alliance -sports awards

Jon Cooper and Adam Parry were nominated for the under 18 Young Volunteer of the Year award. The awards were held on 29th January 2009 and congratulations go to Adam on winning this category. Congratulations also go to Helen Farmer on winning the Adult Volunteer of the Year award. Last  but not least, congratulations to Colin Magee on winning the Lifetime Achievement award. A good day for sailing awards!

Formark reservoir training day - Derbyshire

Multi-sport Volunteers Celebration Event

Congratulations to the follow people for being nominated for the Leicestershire and Rutland Sport Competitions Board's Multi-sport volunteer awards.

 Participation Award'  : Andrew McEvoy
'Sportman Award' : Adam Parry
'High Achiever Award' : Ryan Maloney
'Team/Partnership Award'  (open age!)  :  LRYSA, 'Carsington Crew' ie
    Rebecca Sharpe , Jeremy Batchelor, Colin Magee, Tony Sharpe, Richard Friday
'Innovation Award'  :  Jon Cooper
'Case study of a Good Role Model'  :  Ruth Townsend

Some pictures from the awards event (Pictures:Brian Cooper)

Rudolf Regatta

The annual Rudolf regatta is being held on 29th November as a light hearted end of season race. Please arrive 9 to 9:30 for rigging. Briefing is at 10:30 with first race 10:45. The races will be followed by a buffet lunch. Please bring along some cold food to contribute to this. Maria is co-ordinating the food to get a good spread so please contact Maria to arrange food. Absolutely no alcohol, thank you.

BLESMA Cheque Presentation

On 24th September 2008 a cheque for £7510 was presented to BLESMA. this was the total sum raised from the 24 hour sponsored sail in 2007. Thanks again to all those involved in the event both on the water and behind the scenes. Photographs: BLESMA

Forthcoming dates

There will be no further Friday night training sessions this year.

11 Nov 6.30 LRYSA AGM BWT Classroom

All parents and supporters welcome as we would like some new blood on the organising committee.

29 November 9.00 Rudolf Regatta and Sailors Christmas Party.  This is a provisional date.

The Mayor's trophy and the LRYSA

The Mayor's Trophy sailing group has been set up to give open access to sail training in Leicestershire and the surrounding area.

As part of this programme, regattas are being held at various venues throughout the year. The aim is to enable children of all abilities to learn to sail and to encourage healthy competition against other young people in a similar ability range where they can have great fun and great achievement.

The Mayor's Trophy regattas are open to all novice sailors who have a basic sailing ability and know the basic rules of the road. The Mayor's Trophy regattas are particularly aimed at novice sailors, giving them racing experience against people of a similar ability and helping to develop them to move on to higher levels.

As ability improves, youngsters can move on through various routes to train and compete at County and National level. Trophies will be presented to the winners of the series at the final regatta in August.

Matthew Fulham Memorial Trophy

A separate series of races are being run for the youngsters who have outgrown, or out-raced, the Mayor's Trophy Series. The Matthew Fulham Memorial Trophy will be presented to the winner of the series at the final regatta in August. The entrants will race at the same time as the Mayor's Trophy Group but their results will be scored separately.

Leicestershire and Rutland Youth Sailing Association

The Mayor's Trophy Group is a sub-group of the Leicestershire and Rutland Youth Sailing Association (LRYSA).