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2024 Phantom Nationals at SYC
Sunderland Yacht Club were pleased to extend a warm welcome to the Phantom Class - for the ALLEN Phantom UK National Championships between Friday 6th September to Sunday 8th September 2024. It has been 12 years since the Phantoms were last at SYC and it's great to see the fleet going strong with nearly 50 competitors arriving. The three days saw some fantastic racing in a mix of conditions. Thankfully, despite the persistent
Published 15:16 on 10 Sep 2024
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A glorious Roker Regatta
The 2023 Roker Dinghy Regatta saw 2 days of great sailing at Sunderland Yacht Club. Saturday started a little slowly, with boats sat rigged on the beach as the sailors waited patiently for the wind. Thankfully the launch signal came and racing began in a sunny Seaburn Bay. Two races in light conditions. Saturday night was spent at SYC, with great food from the galley and live music. Sunday provided improved conditions
Published 18:03 on 4 Sep 2023
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Sunderland Yacht Club - Roker Dinghy Regatta 2023
Calling all dinghy sailors! Put the 2nd and 3rd of September in your dairy for what promises to be an exciting weekend of racing with the return of the SYC Roker Dinghy Regatta. The weekend will see a full programme of racing as well as food and entertainment throughout. Entries should be made online here - £20 for double handed and £15 for single handed boats (£15/£10 for SYC members). Further
Published 17:34 on 7 Aug 2023
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SB20 Northern Area Championships at SYC
Congratulations to David Atkinson and crew winners of the SB20 Northern Area Championships 2023 at Sunderland Yacht Club (SYC). A dark and stormy weekend resulted in a reduced race programme with the PRO (Dave Boatman) ensuring safe sailing time was maximised despite the challenging weather conditions. Competitors enjoyed the hospitality and entertainment of SYC on Saturday evening before heading home on Sunday a little earlier than originally planned. Event Photos
Published 15:07 on 19 Jul 2023
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Sunderland Yacht Club Roker Regatta 2023
Sunderland Yacht Club Roker Regatta 2023 - incorporating SB20 Northern Area Championships Building on the success of last year's event, the Sunderland Yacht Club Roker Regatta will be back on 15th and 16th July. This year the event also incorporates the SB20 Northern Championships. As in 2022, the event will consist of five races over the two days across three classes - 1, 2 & 3 (white
Published 18:17 on 26 Jun 2023
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SYC Newsletter
New for the 2023 season is the SYC Newsletter. We are introducing a bi-monthly newsletter to keep you up to date with everything going on at the club. It would be great to include some of our members cruising and racing stories and successes. If you have any news to add please drop me an e-mail at commodore@sunderlandyachtclub.co.uk , feel free to attach a photo
Published 20:23 on 18 Apr 2023
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Get ready for the Roker Regatta 2022
The next event on the horizon at Sunderland is Roker Regatta on the weekend 9th & 10th of July. Two races are planned for Saturday afternoon and 3 races are planned for Sunday. There will be 3 classes, classes 1 & 2 will be for those boats wishing to use a spinnaker and class 3 will be for a non-spinnaker i.e., white sail. In recognition of the fact that some of the
Published 16:00 on 30 Jun 2022
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North East and Yorkshire Youth Travelers Series.
Over the 25 th and 26 th of June, the club hosted 28 entries for the NEYYTS. Young sailors from around the region compete over the year in several events which count towards the series. They were treated to some testing conditions over the 2 days. Four Sunderland junior members represented the club over the 2 days showing some real grit and determination in their sailing, hopefully, next year we will see even more. Across
Published 15:49 on 30 Jun 2022
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Jubilee Weekend Sailing
Sailing Away for the Jubilee The weekend saw something a bit different at the club to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Saturday was our all-classes pursuit race which allowed dinghies and cruisers of all shapes and sizes to compete together on the same racetrack. The race management team of Kev and Helen did a sterling job managing the start times, radios transmissions, requests for timings from boats on the water,
Published 20:32 on 6 Jun 2022
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Rudolph Regatta
The 11th December saw the inaugural Rudolph Regatta. This is an opportunity for newer members of the dinghy fleet to run an event, to demonstrate the skills they've learnt thanks to the dedicated and experienced members of the club who put so much in to coaching and improving the fleet. The Rudolph Race Management team had a great day running their first Regatta and would like to thank SYC members for their encouragement and guidance
Published 19:30 on 25 Dec 2021
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Return of the Musto Skiffs
We had a great time hosting the Musto Skiff Class in the summer and this weekend they are back for an open event. Racing will take place in Whitburn Bay on 23 rd and 24 th October. Look out for them and their colourful spinnakers this weekend. It promises to be a great weekend's racing at SYC.
Published 19:06 on 19 Oct 2021
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UKLA Autumn ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 Qualifier Event
Sunderland Yacht Club was pleased to welcome back the UKLA Laser fleet on 25th and 26th September for the UKLA Autumn ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 Qualifier event. The weekend delivered some excellent racing with over 70 boats participating. Well done to all the sailors, we hope you enjoyed your trip to SYC and many thanks to our SYC volunteers for running a great event!
Published 18:58 on 19 Oct 2021
