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 ………
Posted: 20th November 2007, in Sailors.
Last year Keith was awarded the BBC South East ‘Watersports Personality’ of the year award and this is his third year in succession to be honoured with a BBC nomination.
The BBC have recognised Keith Atkinson’s outstanding achievements during this year, picking up all three windsurfing titles, this being a repeat of his 2006 performance and the third consecutive year that he has been the overall British Champion.
Posted: 16th November 2007, in Sailors, UKWA, Upcoming.
Members are invited to a “Sailors Meeting” that will take place on sunday morning, 18th November, at the Sandbanks Hotel. All are welcome - racers and wave sailors; speedsters and freestylers ! Meeting starts at 9.00 am - so no laying in bed after the evenings festivities!
Posted: 14th October 2007, in International, Sailors.
After a slow start to the season Ross Williams (GBR 83) - Gaastra, Tabou, O’Neill- finished the year strongly . Once again Ross made the PWA Top Ten in two disciplines: Wave 9th and Slalom 10th.
Posted: 8th October 2007, in International, Sailors.
From the RYA: “In the RS:X 8.5 Skandia Team GBR’s Bryony Shaw raced herself into an almost unassailable Series lead completing a clean sweep of five round two wins at WPNSA to back up her Sail for Gold triumph…”
Posted: 4th October 2007, in Sailors.
Keith Atkinson has once more pulled off the UK Triple by taking the remaining two National Formula Windsurfing titles for the second year in succession.
Posted: 3rd October 2007, in International, Sailors.
Richard Hamilton (GBR 75) & Elliot Carney (GBR 274) did very well at the recent RSX Youth Worlds (Sopot, Poland). The competition was run to the new Olympic format with the final day being the medal race for the top ten sailors.
Posted: 15th August 2007, in Sailors.
Keith Atkinson will be on UK Boating TV, showing on Information TV (Sky channel 167 and a live stream) on Weds 15th August at 6:30pm, and then for another 7 showings over the following fortnight (Mon/Wed/Fri at 6:30pm + Sun lunchtime), with repeated clips following on uk-boating.tv.
Posted: 15th July 2007, in International, Sailors.
Nick Dempsey secured Great Britain’s fourth medal at the ISAF World Sailing Championships in Cascais on Thursday (12 July), clinching bronze in a gripping final medal race. Full story on the Skandia Team GBR site.
Posted: 20th June 2007, in Sailors, Upcoming.
BLOC eyewear systems have agreed to sponsor the racing at this weekends Ocean Festival from Hove Lagoon - inluding the ” BLOC Blaster !”
Posted: 22nd May 2007, in Reports, Sailors.
The annual Rutland Windsurfing Marathon in aid of the NCH took place on Saturday 19th May, the venue Rutland Water, at 3100 acres one of Western Europe’s largest man made lakes, a win at this the event is much prized amongst British windsurfers, it has also attracted many overseas competitors over the years.
Posted: 5th May 2007, in Sailors.
Reigning triple UK Formula Windsurfing Champion Keith Atkinson has departed from NeilPryde after six very successful years on both the UK and international circuits to join the International Team of the new Windsurfing equipment brand ‘Point-7’.
