Reports 2024

Gunfleet Sailing Club held its 62nd Annual General Meeting last Sunday 1 December 2024 and Commodore Richard Walker welcomed those members present and reflected on a very successful year which included some sixty events on the water, and house-full signs for many of the social functions.  

Gunfleet Sailing Club’s sixth, and penultimate, race in its Winter Series on Sunday 17 November 2024 saw victory for Simon Clarke in his Europe.

Gunfleet Sailing Club’s fifth race in its Winter Series was held on Sunday 10 November 2024 in a west/south-westerly force 2 to 3 wind on the last of the ebb tide.

Gunfleet Sailing Club members took part in the fourth race in the Winter Series on Sunday 3 November 2024 with victory going to Paul Jackson in his Solo.

Gunfleet Sailing Club held the third race in its Winter Series on Sunday 27 October in, what appeared to be, real summery weather.  Blue skies and unbroken sunshine were coupled with a light, force 2 to 3, offshore breeze, resulting in the Club itself being a suntrap whilst rigging-up.

Gunfleet Sailing Club members filled the Clubhouse last Saturday 19 October 2024 to celebrate the end of the 2024 sailing season, with a Chinese meal and the presentation of trophies.  Commodore Richard Walker also celebrated thirty years of being at the helm of the Gunfleet, looking back to the start of the Club in 1962.

Gunfleet Sailing Club held the first race in its Winter Series on Sunday 13 October 2024 and the weather greeted the members accordingly.  A west/north-westerly breeze, combined with a lack of sunshine, resulted in a sharp morning as competitors rigged their boats.

The last race in Gunfleet Sailing Club’s Autumn Series was held on Sunday 6 October 2024 in the liveliest conditions of the year, to date, but it didn’t deter the hardy members from taking part.  

It was a lively sail in mountainous seas for those taking part in Gunfleet Sailing Club’s second race in its Autumn Series on Sunday 29 September 2024.  

Last Sunday 22 September Gunfleet Sailing Club held the last in its 3-in-1 events this season when the results of three short races, sailed back to back, combine to determine overall positions, and with two firsts and a second it was Tim Dye that took his RS Aero to victory.

Gunfleet Sailing Club held the first race in its Autumn Series on Sunday 15 September 2024 in a force three to four south-westerly wind, coupled with Summery conditions of blue skies and sunshine.  With the tide having turned and now ebbing, the helms recognised it was going to be quite a slog to beat down the coast on the first leg.  John Tappenden never got off the beach when the tiller on his RS Aero snapped, and he had to content himself by watching the race from the shore.

Gunfleet Sailing Club members enjoyed a fresh force four, gusting five, onshore breeze on Sunday 8 September 2024 when they took part in the race for the Fleet Championships.  With a flood tide under them, the boats drew closer and closer to the line, the helms edging each other forward.

Lively conditions faced the competitors at Gunfleet Sailing Club on Sunday 1 September 2024 when they took part in the race for the Toppo Single Handed Trophy.

Gunfleet Sailing Club held the second of its Personal Handicap Races on Bank-Holiday Sunday, 25 August, with Cadet Finley Taylor romping home in his Topper.