We’ve had a mail from Race Officer John Tushingham this morning with an update regarding the qualification process for the 2023 Global Championship @ Fleetwood.

It offers clarification on the boat limits for our one day TT events as well as offering some solace for those who didn’t enter Gosport but want to have a stab at qualifying.

To read John’s words please take a look at the event page by clicking here.

Our first trip out of the year and the sailing was good, the social was also good. Please find a report on the weekend’s yachting along with the overall results by clicking here.

DF95 results above, usual suspects at the top plus a couple of new names.

Another good days sailing with a heap more boats on the start line.

Long journey now, report in a day or two.

Thanks to Gosport club for the weekend.

Another sunny day here at Gosport wind square across the pond, many skippers, good breeze, briefing underway for another good days racing.

So, despite an iffy wind direction and an awful lot of rig changes during the day it was a lovely day sailing here at Gosport. The sun shone and there were A plus rigs, A rigs and the odd B rig on the racecourse.

Tushy made it look reasonably easy once again. Ken Binks made a great day of it to come home second with Tim Long in third spot.

Pub now, 95’s tomorrow.

So here we all are, Gosport is sunny and breezy. The sun is good but the breeze could cause some course setting issues for the race team, I see zig zags in our future today….

I think that the A plus rigs that people are sporting currently will be replaced by B and possibly C rigs as the day wears on.

Results to follow later.

Just a quick note to let you all know that the entry for the Lincoln RSC TT weekend is now open. Plenty of early entries for both days so far so get your entry in quick smart!

Full details can be found by clicking here.

Our Race officer John Tush has been monitoring the entries for the upcoming DF95 event at Gosport and after a chat today he has taken the decision to close the entries so that we only have three fleets on the day.

Mindful of the numbers and also mindful of possible conditions and required course changes Tushy thinks that it is sensible to keep all of the one day DF TT events limited to three fleets so that those entered get a good number of races having travelled quite some distance.

Obviously there may be one or two of you that haven’t entered but were going to. If this is the case then please contact the event organiser and add your name to a waiting list. I’m sure there will be one or two drop outs from the event which means there should be one or two available spots. Running an eye over the list I can’t see anyone obvious who is missing.

There is a little more about this on the Events page.

We announced that Fleetwood will be holding the DF Racing Global Regatta in 2023 and whilst the ICA (International Class Association) are still ironing out the finer details of the event we thought it would be a good idea to let you guys and gals know how you might get a place at this prestigious event.

To that end we’ve created an information page on the website with details of what you’ll need to do to be in with a shout of getting a spot on the startline in May 2023. Click here to take a look.

Morning folks, our 2022 DF racing UK AGM concluded yesterday evening and we have the results for you. Take a look at the AGM 2022 page by clicking here where we have added the results of the voting process for you.

Thanks to all of you that took the time to vote.

In other news the Gosport TT in March is looking like a bumper start to the season with 43 entries for the DF65 event and almost 60 for the DF95 event. Lets hope for some straight wind up and down the pond so the race team can get some racing away for all those entered.

We’ll also be publishing a DF95 Global Regatta 2023 page with details of how you, a UK DF95 skipper can qualify to race at the event.

Over the forthcoming weeks there will be a bit of back end website maintenance, this shouldn’t affect your use of the website but it will allow us to integrate more features into the site for future use.

Season 2022 is nearly upon us……I’d best build some rigs!