THE WAYFARER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010 AT THE WEYMOUTH & PORTLAND NATIONAL SAILING ACADEMY (WPNSA)
SATURDAY 17th TO FRIDAY 23rd JULY 2010
The Wayfarer “Worlds” will be held over the week of 17th to 23rd July 2010 based upon the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) near Weymouth, in Dorset, England. The UK National Championships will have its results extracted from the Worlds racing results.
A pdf version of the Notice of Race can be downloaded here.
A pdf version of the entry form is available here http://www.wayfarer.org.uk/worlds/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=10&func=view&catid=2&id=16
The waters of Weymouth Bay offer fine sailing conditions with good winds and relatively calm waters because of the protection afforded by Chesil Bank. The main geographical feature of the facility is the Chesil Bank (a very long 7 mile spit of shingle) and Portland Bill. Both these physical features protect Weymouth Bay from the prevailing south-westerlies and allow magnificent sailing. When the weather is really bad sailing can take place in an inner harbour near the WPNSA. Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour are widely recognised as some of the finest sailing waters in the UK. This together with the development of the new purpose built, on-shore facilities have resulted in the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA), which has been selected as the venue for the London 2012 Olympic sailing events.
As can be seen from the photographs there is no shortage of car and boat parking and launching facilities; no shortage of function rooms, committee rooms, sail measuring, general scrutineering facilities and wet and dry bars! In fact the facilities are so cavernous that an early decision was made by the UKWA Committee not to restrict entries at all. The principle is “the more the merrier”. We would really like the UK hosted World Championships to be one of the largest, in terms of numbers of Wayfarers, ever held. There will be Gold, Silver and Bronze fleets with prizes available in each category so everybody should be in with a chance!
Please check the Event Calendar for detail programme.
This “Worlds Website” will have more information on accommodation and the history of the Wayfarer Worlds and it will also provide competitors with the ability to enter for the event by downloading an entry form ‘on-line’. Another important web address is the WPNSA’s own web-site which gives further information on their facilities and details of sailing courses and other ‘family friendly’ facilities.
The web address is : http://www.wpnsa.org.uk/
For overseas entrants there will be a “Borrowed Boat Scheme”. There will be a list of “boats” that can be loaned and they will all have valid buoyancy and measurement certificates. This list will be published on this site shortly. It is hoped that there will be some of the new Hartley Mark IVs available to borrow as well.
As for the Canada “Worlds”, there will be a ‘buddy system’ developed so that all overseas entrants will have a link to a UK entrant who will have the responsibility to look after and host ‘their’ buddy from abroad.
A. M. D. McKECHNIE
UKWA Racing Secretary
