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Royal Harwich Yacht Club Annual Regatta

by Gordon Sutton 12 Aug 14:42 BST 10-11 August 2024
Royal Harwich Yacht Club Annual Regatta © George Finch

At the weekend the Royal Harwich Yacht Club hosted their annual club regatta. It was a fabulous weekend with blue skies and excellent wind.

The event was started off on Saturday with the Yachts Catch Me If You Can series, everything from a J class to a folk boat starting at separate times and finishing on the Orwell at 15:30 The clubs Ajax fleet had some very competitive racing along with dinghy Handicap and ILCA.

There was fun on the lawn on Saturday for all the family and younger members, sports confidence organised a sports afternoon for all the younger members and Artful dabbed did face painting.

However I think the best story of the weekend was that in the dinghy handicap fleet where we had Rosa Finch, 2 years old, crewing for her daddy in a Mirror. In the Ajax fleet we had David Mayne who is 90 years old, a former National 12 champion from many years ago.

Rosa is starting her racing journey and David is in his last year of racing Ajax's. 88 years separate these two members.

I can't really think of many sports that can give this opportunity to young and old.

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