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Team Racing Team Racing Captain on 03 Mar 2009
Newcastle first University team at Nottingham Snakebite
Nottingham Snakebite report
Newcastle 1sts this weekend travelled to Nottingham for the amazing Nottingham Snakebite. After a messy night in Ocean on Friday night Saturday was the perfect day for team racing.
Newcastle suffered slightly from hangovers on Saturday that definitely hindered performance. Two early losses out of five in the early stages of the round robins in the leagues led to us being positioned in the Silver Fleet at lunch time on Saturday.
Fortunately Newcastle found their form and went on to win every race for the rest of the day. After a night in Dogma dressed as Where’s Wally Sunday morning saw the continuation of the Gold, Silver, Bronze League and Newcastle sustained their race domination to win the Silver Fleet without having lost a race.
Quarter Finals were run on Sunday afternoon incorporating the top four teams from the Gold Fleet, top three from the Silver and top team from the Bronze fleet. This allowed Newcastle another chance to reach the finals, racing Warwick 1st team. After winning the one-race quarter final Newcastle were against Bristol in the semi finals, sailed as best of three.
The three races were not needed as Newcastle won the first two, positioning them in the finals against West Kirby Youth Team. West Kirby took the first race convincingly but Newcastle fought back to win race two. Race three was extremely close with the event open to being taken at every mark. Unfortunately West Kirby sailed through to win the race and the event.
Newcastle therefore finished second out of the 18 teams racing and first University team. This is a fantastic result that shows the benefits of a season’s hard training and commitment and the advantages of the new fireflies we are now able to train in. We are now looking very positively towards the BUSA Team Racing Finals 15th-17th April.
Racing & Team Racing admin on 16 Feb 2009
Team Racing News
Well done to the Newcastle 1st team who won both the Bottled Firefly and the Liverpool Lash last term.
7/8 Feb 09 - Despite the cold the Newcastle first team won all the races in their league at the BUSA Northern Qualifiers this weekend to guarantee them a place at the BUSC Team Racing Finals at Datchet in April.
The second team also sailed very well in their league, hopefully securing them a place at the Playoffs in March.
Well Done everyone!
Upcoming events - Sheffield Shuffle and Nottingham Snakebite - Good Luck!
Team Racing Team Racing Captain on 20 Nov 2008
Team Racing News
This weekend saw both the first and second teams going to the Brummy Bender in Birmingham.
Photo ©: William Rook
Saturday saw the First team win all their races coming 1st,2nd and 3rd positions and the Second team won three races and lost three. Fortunately this was good enough for both teams to make it into the Gold Fleet on Sunday.
The Firsts made it to the semi finals and narrowly lost to Cambridge. Subsequently they Raced Notts Old Boys in 3rd/4th place play off and won it after a close race to come 3rd overall and were awarded some wine and medals.
1st team was
Ben and Fiona
George and Ed Fitz
Emma and Steve
2nd team was:
Ed Bates and Matt Bradfield
Alastair and Benji
Ian and Sally
Visit http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=144248 for full details.
Well done guys - we wish you luck at the Durham Dambuster coming soon!
Club Committee on 04 Oct 2008
Largs Yachting Trip 08
Jules and Cat and Ian will be in the Mens Bar (on the left in the Union) on Wednesday (8th) between 12 till 2pm, to book your place please come and find them with your cheque book / cash!
Hey Everyone,
We will be running the first largs yachting trip, this semester, on the 17th to the 19th October, please find attached the poster advertising the event and with details about the trip.
The cost of the trip is £65 per person, and that includes the cost of the bus and the yacht hire, If you are in need of kit such as waterproofs, these can be hired at an additional cost (please ask for further info),
We will be leaving on the bus to head for largs on the Friday afternoon after lectures, and returning on the Sunday evening, with the plan to sail to tarbert on Saturday morning and then return during Sunday.
There is a limit at only 40 places available for this trip, and its first come first serve, so get your name down ASAP to be sure for a place.
Please may I also remind anyone interested that to come on the trip they must be a signed up member of the sailing club before leaving on the Friday night.
Please feel free to join the facebook group NUSYC First Largs Yachting Trip 2008!
Cheers
Gerry Goodfellow
Yachting Coordinator
Club Committee on 11 Sep 2008
NUSC in 2008/09!
Its the start of a brand new year and since most of us have doubtlessly forgotten most of what we learnt last year we may as well forget those worries and go sailing. So, welcome to all the freshers this year and welcome back to all of those familiar faces from previous ones. We hope to see you about both on the water and in the toon! We’ve got a load of stuff planned for the first few weeks of term so get involved!
What’s on!
- Fresher’s Barbecue
- Three-Legged-Pubcrawl
- Team Racing Trials!
- Swim test
Fresher’s Barbecue:
During Fresher’s week the sailing club organises a barbecue at South Shield’s Sailing Club to let you scope out the place and meet some new friends. This is your chance to come and eat some free food on the Tynemouth and perhaps have a few beverages whilst learning a bit more about what it is we do and who we are as a club. Meet outside the union on Sat, 27 Sep, at 10:30
Three-Legged-Pubcrawl:
That most infamous of events - the Three-Legged-Pubcrawl - is back. Join us and a new friend as we tour the pubs, clubs and bars of Newcastle. You’ll just have to make sure your partner doesn’t pick and fights with an drunk local whilst you’re still attached! Wed, 1 Oct, 20:00 – Thu, 2 Oct, 00:00
Team Racing Trials:
If you’ve got a bit of competitive spirit in you come along to our team racing trials - where we pick Newcastle Uni’s finest to compete in our team racing squads. For all returning members the trials are Wed, 1st Oct, 12:00 – 17:00
For all new members the racing trials are Sat, 4 Oct, 10:00 – 16:30 or Wed, 8th Oct, 12:00 – 17:00 if you miss the first ones.
NB - If you plan to come to the trials please first contact the captain, Emma Norris by email; emma.norris { a t } ncl.ac.uk
Swim Test:
Union policy and our insurance requires each member of the club to be able to swim to a reasonable degree of proficiency. We don’t need to know if you’re the next Michael Phelps but it’d be nice to know you won’t sink to the bottom of the Tyne (and trust us - you really don’t want to know what is on the bottom of the Tyne). Wednesday the 1st Oct, 15.30 -17.00 at City Pool.
If you didn’t make it to the swim test take this form to any local pool and ask the lifeguard to evaluate you: