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This Sunday (23rd October) the sailors meeting will take place after racing, so approx 3.30pm. The link below takes you to the agenda for this years meeting. 2011 sailors meeting agenda Richard Craig Sailing Secretary  

by Dave Woodhead Mediterranean conditions visited the Lancashire moors for the final open meeting of the RYA North West Junior Traveller Series which took place at Bolton S C on Saturday 1st October. This was the culmination of the popular 10 meeting series sponsored by 1st Mark Chandlery with starts for Youth, Junior and Optimist fleets. The series attracted 111 boats to enter one or more events with some stalwarts managing to travel to all ten…

Due to the weather forecast for Sunday, training in the morning has been cancelled.

Wet and wild (and that was Lynn after the gin!) The kids finshed 3 out of the top 4 with peter second, gareth third, Ben fourth, and great performances from elliot, Michael, and Alex. Well done also to mark and Sam in the 200 and Dave and Linda in the grad against the other cheating sails. Well done all.

Sadly we heard last night that Eddie died last Friday. Eddie was a very active sailor at the club who had recently 'retired' from dinghy sailing but was about to make a comeback in Graduates. We don't know much else but when we find out funeral arrangements we will let everyone know.

At the beginning of the year, the Sailing Committee decided to reduce the number of races in the Autumn series to two, starting at 11am. The idea behind this was to encourage those sailors that don't like to cold weather to sail as it was a shorter day and to help the OOD to fit less races into the shorter days. At the sailors meeting on Sunday there was unanimous approval to revert back to three races, and after putting to the vote, with immediate…

An investigation has started after…

The OOD list for 2009 is now available to download! You can find it here.

It is with great sadness that we've heard that Richard Estaugh has died. Richard was good friends with many members of Bolton Sailing Club and supported our 24 hour race team. Richard was one of the best known and most successful dinghy sailors this country has seen and he will be sorely missed. As well as being a keen sailor himself he also set up and ran Speed Sails for over 25 years helping thousands of others within the sport. Further information…