2014 Canadian Championship Announced

06/10/2014

The 2014 Etchells Canadian Championships are on the schedule. The event is being hosted August 1-3 by Ashbridges Bay YC and the LYRA organizing committee and the Canadian and Toronto Etchells Fleet. This event is part of the LYRA one Design event and is anticipated to be a great event with good sailing, up to 4 races a day, except for the 3rd day, where a maximum of 3 races is scheduled.

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Etchells Bedrock Challenge Trophy 3-5 May 2014

05/07/2014

Twelve Etchells competed for in the first classic Etchells Regatta of the year. The Bedrock Challenge Trophy is a 3-day 9-race series for a cup presented by double world champion Stuart Childerley. But it took a day and a half to get going as high pressure dominated the Solent. On day one the boats were towed out and then towed in again although there was enough breeze to sail, it was unstable and insufficient to race against the tide.  It was disappointing, but the Etchells were luckier than the many cross- channel racers who were stuck out at sea that weekend with no breeze - at least the Etchells sailors could retire to port and a comfy bed!

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Cowes Spring Series Final Weekend Report

04/30/2014

After winning the first of these weekends Shaun Frohlich’s Exabyte, with stalwart crew of David Bedford and Duncan Truswell, scored two firsts, two seconds, and a third to be crowned Etchells Spring Series Champion of 2014.

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UK Etchells Youth Selection Trials Results

03/19/2014

After competitive trials involving seven teams racing one design Etchells in the Solent on 15/16 March, three teams of youths aged 18 to 25 have been chosen to race in the 24 boat Cowes Etchells Fleet on fully funded yachts.

This is the third year of these trials backed by the RYA and UKSA British Keelboat Academy which has seen over 90 young and talented sailors race on the boats. The winning teams will race in the active Etchells programme, including the local SCRA races, Cowes Week, and Nationals and Europeans in Weymouth in September as an early build up for the Etchells Weymouth  Worlds in 2016.

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The winner is One Design at the Etchells Victorian Championship

03/12/2014

Some have said that they find Etchells more than a tad underwhelming. True, Skip Etchells’ design is more than 40 years old, they have aluminium masts, Dacron sails and fractional, symmetrical spinnakers. That’s hardly the coolest stuff going around. However, when you have a different winner for nearly every race, the sport’s greatest coming back, and then back again to sail them, and that they are always closely fought contests, then you have to ponder why that might be so.

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No wind required for the first race at the Etchells Victorian Championship

03/08/2014

Truthfully, we’re not actually talking about Race One of the regatta. Rather, you could probably refer to it as Race Zero, if you like, for it has no direct bearing on the outcome of the 2014 Etchells Victorian Championship. Earlier on in the week, it became very apparent that many of the crews were going to take the opportunity after a hefty drive to Metung in Gippsland, to then get out on the water of the great lakes and have some practice.

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