UKWA News

Poole Slalom ...CANCELLED

Urgent announcement ! It has been necessary to cancel the final event in the 2007 championship series. Apologies for any inconvenience caused to the membership ......

Rutland Water Delivers Again

"All through the night the wind built keeping many people awake but fortunately it settled to a steady 12-16 knots by the 9.15 briefing. The race team had worked hard to get the course ready early and the orange flag was raised for the formula fleet at the end of the race briefing." Bob Ingram reports back from the last Inland event.

UKWA Wave Series Final West Wittering 26th - 28th October

The final event of the UKWA Series was hosted by West Wittering Windsurf Club over the weekend. With one day of high wind sandwiched between high pressures we were lucky to get some wind. Sunday morning saw force six and good waves hit West Wittering beach with one of the highest tides of the year.

Prize giving party

There has been a change of venue for the forthcoming end of season party and prize giving. This "must attend" extravaganza will now take place at the Sandbanks Hotel , Poole.

Hayling delivers...title decider at Poole!

Yet again Hayling delivered the conditions for a "challenging" round 4 of this years Slalom Championship! .....
Alan Jackson rose to the occasion - two wins in the last 2 races ensured he finished the event one point ahead of main rival K 9-Guy Cribb .

Hayling Slalom update; K9 comeback....

Round 4 of the 2007 Slalom Championships takes place this weekend off West Beach, Hayling Island.Competition for top place is close in all divisions.
Guy Cribb with one event win to his credit (Hove ) could yet overhaul Xav and Alan !

Mark Kays Winter training ..

Mark Kays Winter training got off to an excellent start this year. If anyone wishes to come along, you are more than welcome; he will also travel to your local club and organise some training. Up and coming dates.................

Ex-demo RSX kit available

A number of ex demo/lightly used RSX packages (complete) are now available for customers to purchase in the UK. The Kit is in very good condition, the packages are available in 8.5m sizes and 9.5m sizes and are from an event run last year

Formula training day

Our resident Formula rep & enthusiast Xavier Ferlet is organising an unofficial training / practice day for anyone interested. It was going to be tomorrow (Sat 20th), but has been postponed until 10-11th Nov due to a light forecast, but it will give more people an opportunity to attend.

Proposals for UKWA Formula racing

Calling all Formula racers! Please have a look through the Formula proposals for the committee meeting this weekend, and email any comments to Xavier, the Formula rep.

Top Ten for Ross......

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.

Wave Rankings after Tiree.......

With just one more event to go in the race for the 2007 Wave titles, the rankings after Tiree - round 3 of the 4 Nations Championship- are published. Leading sailors are: Andy King (Pro), Simon Crowther (Am), Louise Emery (Ladies), Graham Woods (youth), Aleksy Gayda (Junior) and Sav (Master).

Frustrating Speedweek 2007

The week was hailed a great success despite the lack of wind the Monday's counting round meant it qualified as an official round of the World ISA circuit and that Nigel Spriggs and Linda Cleary are crowned the UKWA 2007 British speed champions.

Dan wins IFCA World title....

After five days the 23rd IFCA Slalom World Championships 2007 in Hyeres has ended. Despite not so promising forecasts it was possible to have spectacular windsurfing competition on all but the last days. Dan Ellis (GBR 52, Fanatic, Naish Sails) from Great Britain is the Slalom World Champion 2007.

RYA: National Ranking Series set for thrilling finale

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..."