Posted: 17th April 2008, in Sailors.
Keith intends to use the profile of the Felixstowe ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ Award to create more awareness of the sport of windsurfing in his hometown.
Posted: 5th March 2008, in Sailors, UKWA.
For the past six years Helen Cartwright has played a leading role in putting Great Britain at the forefront of Junior, Youth and Olympic Classes windsurfing. Now Chester-born Cartwright has been charged with ensuring the UK’s sailing and windsurfing coaches remain at the head of the international pack after being appointed the new RYA Coaching Development Manager.
Posted: 3rd March 2008, in Sailors.
Glaswegian Team15 (T15) Instructor, Andy Kerr, has been awarded one of the RYA’s most prestigious coaching awards – RYA T15 Windsurfing Instructor of the Year 2008. The eagerly awaited awards ceremony took place at the world’s biggest dinghy show, the RYA Dinghy Sailing Show, Alexandra Palace this weekend Saturday (01 March). Full story on Boards.
Posted: 28th February 2008, in Sailors, UKWA.
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Posted: 28th February 2008, in Sailors.
On Sunday 24th February a packed Seckford Theatre in Woodbridge Suffolk witnessed record breaking nine times British Windsurfing Champion Keith Atkinson, being presented with the evenings’ most prestigious award - Suffolk ‘Sports Personality of the Year’.
Posted: 10th February 2008, in Sailors.
Keith Atkinson has been nominated and short listed for the ‘Suffolk Coastal District’ annual ‘Sports Personality of the Year’ award.
Keith moved his base to Felixstowe almost a year ago and has already made his mark in the region by being the driving force behind XTREMEFEST 2007, Felixstowe’s first extreme sports event.
Posted: 25th January 2008, in Sailors.
What does the Treasurer do on a big birthday and there is no wind?
Paddle Boarding on the Serpentine.
Paddle Boarding on the Thames.
Posted: 12th January 2008, in Sailors, Upcoming.
Move over ‘La Trench’ – the English have arrived with their very own ‘speed canal’ – the Ray at Southend on Sea. Yes, this natural lagoon in sunny Essex is to become the focus for Bjorn Dunkerbeck, Dave White and 28 other invited sailors to try and break the 50knot speed barrier this winter.
Posted: 17th December 2007, in Sailors.
Anyone making the most of the conditions in Portland on Sat 8 Dec may have been mildly concerned when they were passed by Batman, maxed out on his 6m, closely followed by Superman and Captain America!!! Don’t worry, you were not hallucinating, I will explain.
Posted: 7th December 2007, in International, Sailors.
Christmas comes early as December opens with big surf worldwide, starting out at epic Kona wind Lanes on Maui.
The excellent Hawaiin winter season continued with a powerful north swell and Kona winds to treat all the locals and pros in town to Lanes at its best. Check out video action of Nik, Robby, Rosco and Skye-boy…..
Posted: 2nd December 2007, in International, Sailors.
"With Ross Williams in Maui, I ended up the only rider to represent the UKWA at the FW Worlds in Brazil - a big responsability! Everybody else is there though…" Xavier reports from the event.
Posted: 22nd November 2007, in Reports, Sailors, UKWA.
Despite a very promising forecast, the wind did not arrive for the warm-up event to the evenings celebrations.
The evenings activity moved to the Sandbanks Hotel , Poole, for the Annual Awards Ceremony. MC for the evening was Ceri Williams, a late replacement for Peter Hart , who was a late replacement for DW ; who was a ………
