Draycote Water Fireball Open Meeting

What can I say. It was truly a great event. 47 boats turned up in spite of us being daft enough to hold it on a half term holiday weekend - that's the biggest turnout of any Fireball open this year, National and Inland championships excepted.

The sun shone, we had a bit of proper F3+ wind on the Saturday and some of that F1-2 tactical shifty stuff on the Sunday. We had a brilliant Race Team running the event. They set excellent courses and their start lines were spot-on. For our part, we all went OCS as much as possible and then looked suprised when we got lobbed for it.

We charged a mere £15 entry fee for the 2 day event, with a £10 fee for Sunday-only entry for those who couldn't do both days. We then handed out something like £500 worth of prizes and still made a bit of a profit.

Then we had some really nice feedback from the competitors, which made us feel REALLY good about the whole thing.

To everyone who attended, we'd like to say a big thank-you. We hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did and that you'll come back again next year.

A proper write up can be found here

This event was kindly and generously sponsored by:

We are very grateful in particular to Richard Estaugh at Speed Sails for his valuable support for this event. Speed Sails now have an online shop and can supply virtually everything a Fireballer is likely to need. Unlike OnBoard (whom we all know and love), many Draycote Fireballers will not be aware of the existence of Speed Sails. We hope that you will support both these companies who have so kindly and generously supported the Draycote Fireball Fleet.

Click on the sponsors' logos to go to their web sites. Buy something now !!!!