Young Tushingham & Starboard team sailor Richard Jones is offering a great opportunity for all levels of windsurfer with the first of his Freewave training weekends at Poole, Dorset on March 3rd and 4th.
UKWA News
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Richard Jones Freewave Training
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Two Prestigious endorsement's for Weymouth Speed Week
The world's longest-running speed event has been endorsed by the UK Windsurfing Association to hold the British Championships from 2007 onwards. It is a big step forward for the event, which has also gained recognition this week also from the International Speedsailing Association and will be on the calendar for the World Series.
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Windsurfer gets a Yachting Award
Zara Davis our No 1 Ladies speedsailor has been awarded the Sailor of the year trophy by the Bristol Channel Yachting Association, who represent over 55 yacht clubs over the South West of England.
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Exocet LB demo at Bough Beach
At the first LWA Event of the 2007 Summer Series at Bough Beech SC near Sevenoaks on Sat 10 March, Surf Sales have kindly agreed to bring along two of the new Exocet longboards to demo, a Kona and a Warp X.
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Fat Face DVD 2006
Fat Face will be announcing the 2007 events soon, but to wet your appatite, the "Night Riders" Fat Face Night Series 2006 DVD has now been launched: www.fatface.com/nightseries.
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Calendar for 2007
The calendar is now finalised (barring acts of God, or local authorities!), it's all in the events section. Also don't miss the chance to feedback on Tenby plans, or attend the Defi wind. More on the Calendar for 2007.
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New UKWA Phone number
The UKWA has a new phone number: 08454 10 33 11, calls are charged at a local rate.
The number is courtesy of a certain Mr Chilvers, for a free Business Telecoms Health Check contact: Guy Chilvers at Chilvers Bosch Telecoms. guy@chilversbosch.co.uk, 08454 10 30 50 or 07785 30 30 42
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Nick Dempsey still ranked 1st
Nick Dempsey has retained his No. 1 world ranking for the third successive time following an outstanding 2006 series. The 26 year old Olympic Bronze medallist is currently training in Palma and is looking forward the World championship in Portugal where he will hope to qualify for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Bryony Shaw is currently lying in 4th position.
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Speed Gun Challenge
To help promote speedsailing the UKWA will also be having a speedgun at a number of UKWA racing events to measure your speed.
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Speed Class joins IWA
Speed windsurfers have taken the next step forward in the development of their class. The Speed Class becomes the 7th member class of the International Windsurfing Association, more details on the IWA website.
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UK Ditch Project uncovered!!
On a dark winters day in deepest Somerset (UK) windsurfers Kevin Greenslade and Dan Ellis discovered a piece of water that will have the French shaking in there boots.
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Ellis wins Cape Town dash
After much hype and anticipation Saturday the 16th of December saw Dan Ellis win back his honour and a bit of cash too! For some more pix and a map of the course check out Dan Ellis's website. To find out about other SA races check out WindsurfingAfrica.org and to see all the pix including a great jump on a speed board go to Capesessions.com.
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Records & Trophies
Quite a few UKWA sailors are staying active in the off-season:
Zara Davis from the broke the 500m national speed record, at the Namibia speed event. Dave White, got the top speed of the day at 42.91knots on his Tabou production board. (Story on Boardseeker.)
Dan Simpson won the RYA Thames Valley Young Sailor of the Year, with an impressive array of results this year. -
BBC honour Keith Atkinson
The BBC honour Keith Atkinson in a glittering ceremony held at the Priestfield Stadium in Gillingham. It was the BBC's annual evening honouring the South East's sports personalities of 2006.
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UK Formula Champion Keith Atkinson gets BBC Sportsman Nomination
The BBC has again nominated Keith Atkinson, the UK's 2006 Triple Formula Windsurfing Champion, for the BBC South East sports awards. The ceremony is to be held on the 4th December will be filmed for Broadcast on BBC South East and Southern counties radio and is also televised on the BBC South East news.