We are really excited to announce that Starcross YC has become an RYA OnBoard Club.
What is OnBoard, I hear you ask ..... Well, OnBoard is…
… RYA's children's sailing and windsurfing programme. It offers children the opportunity to try watersports through their local club or centre in a safe, fun and structured environment.
Saturday saw 21 keen junior sailors on the water at Starcross Yacht Club for the first of eleven Winter Junior Race Training sessions.
Pictured is Jane Hill, SYC Junior Chairperson, receiving her RYA Outstanding Contribution Community Volunteer Award from Princess Anne at the RYA AGM and Awards Ceremony in London on 25 November 2021.
Finished today (4 November), 90 new planks and 2350 screws hold down this magnificent replacement decking in front of the Clubhouse.
RYA Junior Regional Championships,
25/26 Sept at WPNSA in Portland
Saturday 31 July saw a total of 44 boats, including 29 visitors from as far away as Lymington and Fowey, participate in a day of open Solo and Laser racing in challenging variable-wind conditions. The day marked not only a further return to Open Meeting normality after Covid lockdowns, but also the first SYC Solo Open since the very early 1980s, celebrating the strong revival of this racing class in recent years.
An energetic fleet of 38 children took part in the inaugural Starcross YC Junior Regatta, held on the River Exe over four days from 14-17 August and open to entrants from River Exe clubs. The format of the event was 2-3 short races each day, with the fleets divided into a very competitive Gold fleet and a coached Silver fleet. In between racing a full timetable of beach games, camp-overs and discos took place, leaving lots of exhausted but smiling children at the end of four days.
More punctual than a GWR train, Derek Hathaway at the helm of Thalmia crossed the SYC finishing line just at his published ETA of 17:30 on 25 July, at the finish of his anti-clockwise solo circumnavigation of Britain in support of Rainbow Living, a learning disabilities charity. He was noisily greeted by a reception party of family, friends and Rainbow Living volunteers gathered on the sea wall in front of the clubhouse.
