Shanghai & Nimrod Cup 2025
Llandegfedd Dragon Series 2025
Last Saturday, May 24th, Llandegfedd Sailing Club hosted the second part of the South Wales Dragon Series. The forecast showed that it would be a cloudy day with a building wind. With the conditions in mind, the Training fleet were given their own course and were supported by the RYA CW coach throughout the day. All fleets managed to complete 5 great races.
CBYC Sailors
Training Fleet
Eleanor Hughes - 1st overall
Martha Hughes - 6th overall
Xenia Hudson-Evans - 7th overall
Optimist Fleet
Elle Bourke - 3rd overall
Topper Silver Fleet
Emily Kinsella - 1st overall
Dafydd King - 2nd overall
Topper Gold Fleet
Rhys Doyle - 3rd overall
General Handicap Silver Fleet
George Davies - 3rd overall
Sam Bourke - 7th overall
General Handicap Gold Fleet
Dan Powell - 1st overall
Alexa Atkins - 2nd overall
Link to results: https://www.llandegfedd.org.uk/results/2025/llandegfedd-sailing-club-dragons-2025
Torbay Royal Regatta 2025
BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND – AUGUST 23RD – 25TH
ENTRIES NOW OPEN!
Enjoy three days of racing for IRC, Cruisers, SB20’s, and Sport boats.
BENITA BOWL FOR TOP TEAM WITH FEMALE CREW
ON SITE CRANAGE AND FREE BERTHING
To enter or for more information, email [email protected]
or visit events@rtyc
HISC Optimist Open 2025
Magic Marine and Hayling Island hosted an Optimist Open Meeting on May 10/11th 2025. With over 100 Optimists over the 3 fleets, there was fantastic racing had by all.
CBYC Sailors
Gracie Allsopp - 12th overall
Roisin Epstein - 32nd overall
Jack Harding - 37th overall
Tomos Martin - 46th overall
Link to the results: https://www.hisc.co.uk/media/18609/hisc-optimist-open.html
Try a Youth Class
Come join us on June 8th for a Try a Youth Class day.
We will have access to ILCA 4 & 6, 29er, 420 and a Waszp with sailors rotating round each class in groups. We are also fortunate to have current class sailors to be able to provide top tips and share their experience with the class.
Click Here to sign up.
Tata Steel Dragon Series 2025
Last Saturday, May 10th, over 26 sailors took part in the first event of the South Wales Dragon Series at Tata Steel Sailing Club. The Dragon Series is a regional set of events hosted by Welsh clubs in their regions, providing sailors opportunities to race outside of their home club. For the South Wales series the clubs involved are; Tata Steel, Llandegfedd, Mumbles and Cardiff Bay. These events are supported by RYA Cymru Wales with the provision of a qualified coach in attendance to help and encourage those taking part in their first sailing event. With fantastic weather and wind, a total of 4 races were completed during the day for all the fleets.
CBYC Sailors
Training Handicap Fleet
Annabel Costello - 3rd overall
Sofia Komianos - 5th overall
Junior Handicap Fleet
Max Attrill - 1st overall
Sienna Watts - 3rd overall
Griff Attrill - 4th overall
Martha Hughes - 6th overall
Xenia Hudson - 7th overall
Alekos Komianos - 8th overall
Dafydd King - 10th overall
General Handicap
Dan Powell - 1st overall
Link to results: https://tatasteelsailing.org.uk/?page=results&year=2025&target=6_Dragon_Series.htm
Eric Twiname Junior Championships 2025
Hosted at Rutland Sailing Club, Ruland on 3-5th May 2025.
The Eric Twiname Junior Championships is the largest Junior Championships of the year with over 280 boats competing in the various classes. Optimists, RS Teras, Toppers, RS Fevas and ILCA 4s took to the water to take part in the event which included some new and different racing formats, with Short races being around 10 minutes long, Long races around 25 minutes long and a Marathon race aiming to be around 1 hour.
CBYC Sailors
Optimist
Hugo Thomas – 5th overall
Xenia Hudson – 20th overall
Martha Hughes – 21st overall
Daisy Abney-Hastings – 33rd overall
Zelda Abney-Hastings – 39th overall
Topper
Max Attrill – 45th overall
Griff Attrill – 51st overall
Rhys Doyle – 57th overall
Zac Allsop – 72nd overall
ILCA 4
Alexa Atkins – 26th overall
Link to results – https://racingevents.rya.org.uk/en/default/races/race-resultsall/text/RYAEricTwinameJuniorChampionships-en/menuaction/race-inscriptions
RYA Youth Nationals 2025
Hosted at Plas Heli, Pwllheli, the home of the Welsh National Sailing Academy on the week of 12 - 18th April 2025.
The RYA Youth Nationals is the UK's premier Youth sailing event, boasting a wide range of British Youth Sailing recognised classes; ILCA 6 & 7, 420, 29er, Nacra 15 and now even foiling classes. The results are used to select the British Youth Sailing Team, who will represent Great Britain at international regattas. This includes the Youth World Championships as well as the domestic youth squad for the year ahead.
CBYC Sailors
420 Class
Merle Nieuwland - 3rd overall and 1st overall female team
Laragh Epstein - 7th overall and 2nd mixed team overall
Ella Martin - 22nd overall
George Self - 22nd overall
Charlotte Self - 24th overall
Naimh Epstein - 26th overall
Molly Martin - 26th overall
29er Class
Dylan Creighton - 6th overall
ILCA 6 Male
Dan Powell - 7th overall
ILCA 6
Alexa Atkins - 12th overall
Link to results: https://youthnationals.rya.org.uk/en/default/races/race-resultsall
IOCA Selections 2025
Hosted at Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, Portland on 2-5th May 2025.
The IOCA Selections sees the top Optimist Sailors in the UK compete over 4 days to gain their place on an IOCA Team, with limited places per team the racing of the highest quality. These teams attend large international events such as the World Championships, European Championships, Irish Nationals and many others.
CBYC Sailors
Gracie Allsopp - 11th overall and 2 girl overall, qualifing for the European Championships in Turkey.
Alice Atkin - 33rd overall
Roisin Epstein - 44th overall
Tomos Martin - 47th overall
Eleanor Hughes - 60th overall
Ayla Griffiths - 68th overall
Jack Harding - 69th overall
Sam Bourke - 76th overall
Link to results: https://iocauk.ourclubadmin.com/docs/269/Selections_2025_Provisional_After_12_Races_v2.html