For the first time FFSC ran an Easter Sunday Race. A request to members came up with the name “The Easter Bonnet Race”. The Day of the “Easter Bonnet Race” arrived and a crowd amassed on the shore to watch the fleet of boats make off from the start. After an initial postponement to let …
The New Years Day race is a new fixture in the FFSC calendar and has been several months in the making. Sailors pre-entered in order to gauge the numbers and with good numbers registered the fate of the race lay in the hands of the weather gods. Come the morning of the 1st of January …
A cloudy start to Sunday the 18th saw the crews gather for another legendary Tim O’leary briefing . The course was set to run from the club line across the bar and round a few cans out to sea. With the now immortal words of “just follow me” Tim closed the briefing and the crews …
On the 29th of July several FFSC members (Sam Rowell, Mark Stones, Mark Patterson, Sonia Hare, James Head, Howard Head) started packing and travelling to Medemblik for the 2016 Dart 18 World Championships. Most took the Harwich ferry to the Hook whilst others took the longer way round and hit delays at Calais. Medemblik itself …
This Sunday saw the first Long distance race for many years, clocking in at 17.85 miles. The weather gods played their part and we had a perfect forecast. W S/W 18 Knots gusting 23. Tim O’leary set the course and departed to the crow’s nest for the start. James Woollard and Sam Rowell in the Hurricane …
On the 2nd of July Grafham Sailing Club celebrated their 50th anniversary with a nine hour race and FFSC sailors Sam Rowell and Nick Swain joined in on the action to be the only travelling sailors to enter. the forecast was 20 knots so it was marginal whether the team would attend. The trip started …
The first Saturday Afternoon racing was scheduled for 2.30pm last bank holiday weekend. Upon arrival the wind was light and often dropped to nothing. With club sailors assembled it was agreed that we would cruise round to Felixstowe front using the newly purchased Dart 16s that had only been rigged for the first time that …
On Wednesday the 19th of August the Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club dinghy park welcomed the sight of the artic truck which had brought boats directly from the Europeans in Italy. It had been debated for several months which UKCRA Youth sailors would be attending the event but we had a healthy turn out and for …
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The finish of the 2015 Dart 18 Europeans in Grossetto, Italy only 2 weeks before the Nationals inevitably reduced the entry list, but the 37 boats who travelled to Felixstowe Ferry SC had a great Nationals both on the water and socially. Competitors arrived on the Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning for the usual round …
The Seamark Nunn Woolverstone Challenge Cup is an unique new inter-club event for east coast sailing clubs. THe event took place on Saturday May 9th and was organised by the Woolverstone Project (www.woolverstoneproject.org.uk) – an RYA Sailability and Training Centre based at Alton Water and at Woolverstone on the River Orwell. East coast clubs were …