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101) General News: Sprint15's at the RYA Dinghy Show (Article Published: 15th February 2010 at 15:01 pm)

Why not come and see us at the RYA Dinghy Show, Alexandra Palace on the weekend of 6/7 March? We will be showing a boat provided by Windsport and over the weekend the stand will be manned by many of the Sprint 15 Association committee as well as National Champion (Kyle Stoneham) and a number of our top sailors. Come and tell us what we are doing right or wrong and to find out what we are planning for the coming year. We will be taking names of those wanting to sign up for a free demonstration ride which we will organize at a club near you. Brian Phipps (of Windsport) will be at the show both days and you can save postage on your Sprint 15 spare parts by pre-ordering them from Windsport (01326 376191) by 28 February.

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102) Website News: Buy and Sell Pages - Pictures can now be added (Article Published: 22nd February 2010 at 12:29 pm)

I have now added in the capability to add a picture to adverts. Thus you can include a picture of the item you are selling, be it boat or other parts more..

103) Event News: The Windsport Catparts Sprint 15 Traveller Series Long Distance at Marconi Sailing Club - End of Series Report
(Article Published: 25th March 2010 at 10:19 am)

The Sprint 15 winter traveller series was concluded at Grafham on Sunday 21 March on a bright sunny day with a 22 boat entry. All 5 event of the winter series were completed mostly in light winds (we seemed to get an anticyclone for each event) and a record number of 15 entries qualified for the series with 3+ results. more..

104) Event News: TT at Grafham Water Sailing Club - Race Report
(Article Published: 24th March 2010 at 12:58 pm)

On Sunday 21 March the final event of the Sprint 15 fleet winter series was held at Grafham. 16 visitors joined a (slightly disappointing) 6 sailors from the home club on a bright day which started off sunny with an absolute calm. The race officer, Phil Bevan, postponed for half an hour after which a slight and variable South wind kicked in and so he set a square course and got the proceedings under way. more..

105) Event News: The Windsport Catparts Sprint 15 Traveller Series Sport Nationals at Swanage Sailing Club - Race Report
(Article Published: 20th May 2010 at 09:52 am)

This year the Sprint 15's headed for Swanage Sailing Club for the first time for many years to hold their Sport Nationals over a long weekend from the 8th to 10th May hoping for Sun, wind and sand. more..

106) Website News: Easy webpage sharing to Facebook and Twitter (Article Published: 20th October 2010 at 16:16 pm)

I have made available two icons at the bottom of the navigation menu, these two icons will allow you to share the current page you are viewing with Facebook and Twitter. more..

107) Event News: The Windsport Catparts Sprint 15 Traveller Series TT at Grafham Water Sailing Club - Race Report
(Article Published: 4th November 2010 at 14:27 pm)

The last regatta of the Windsport Catparts Sprint 15 Summer traveller series was held at Grafham Water Sailing Club on the weekend of 16-17 October, which was also the Inland Championships. There were 30 entries including two who were trying out the DX sails, but could not qualify for the prizes as the sail has not been adopted by the class. This once again made the Sprint 15s the biggest fleet at the Grafham Cat Open.more..

108) Website News: Bugs Fixed (Article Published: 4th November 2010 at 15:04 pm)

Various small bugs fixed in the content management system. more..

109) General News: MAINSAIL RAFFLE WINNER (Article Published: 26th March 2010 at 09:20 am)

The Class Association were kindly given a new mainsail by Windsport as sponsorship for the Class to use in any way we would like to promote the Class. We decided to use it to promote all our events (including summer events, winter events and both national championships) so at each event for a whole year each entrant has been been 'given'* a raffle ticket. more..

110) Event News: The Windsport Catparts Sprint 15 Traveller Series TT at Herne Bay Sailing Club - Race Report
(Article Published: 24th May 2010 at 14:05 pm)

The weekend dawned with a windy day to get rigged up, with only 1 local, Ben Skull, the travellers were dominant. With 3 sailors Seasalter SC was best represented by Martin Searle, Kevin Dutch and David Turnbull, 2 from Queen Mary in the form of Gordon Goldstone and George Stephen, followed by Erling Holmberg from Shanklin and Ian Collyer from Holywell. Nick Dewhirst would join the gang on Sunday. more..