Tamesis Club

What’s happening at Tamesis this September and October? Dates down below!

- Junior sailing restarting: 5th September
- National 18’ open meeting: 6th September
- Three burgee festival: 12th September
- Tamesis annual regatta: 13th September
- Braganca bowl / Yates Cup - Thames A Raters: 19th / 20th September
- Laser Barometer: 3rd October
- Trowlock trophy: 11th October
- Trafalgar trophy: 18th October
There will also be Social sailing and club racing on Sundays

Put these dates into your calendar and head over to the website linked in bio🔗 or the WhatsApp groups for further information!! Look forward to seeing you at as many of these as possible🥳

✨Sunday 30th August Summer series racing✨ was brilliant to see lots of boats racing in the morning, in particular a fair amount of Juniors. Looking forward to seeing even more people in the next couple of weeks with lots of exciting and busy events coming up!!! Keep your eyes peeled for more updates. For more information head over to the website linked in bio🔗

📸 Carolyne, Emer, Alastair, Kristin

Good luck to all GCSE students collecting their results today!!

One of our keenest Topper sailors, Arthur PJ (now aged 13!) spent a week of the school holidays down at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) for the UK Topper National Championships. WPNSA was the sailing and windsurfing venue for the London Olympics and is now the dedicated training base for the British Sailing Team.

There were 160+ Topper sailors from across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales competing across three separate groups; the 5.3 fleet, the 4.2 fleet and the Regatta fleet; there was quite a stream of Olympic level ILCA, 49er and IQFoil (foiling windsurfer) all jostling to use the launch ramps at any one time and to provide some real stratospheric inspiration as they foiled across the bay at up to 35 knots!

A full report can be found here with some excellent photos of the event. Looks like it was a blast! https://www.tamesisclub.co.uk/article/290339

Overall results for all fleets https://gbrtopper.ourclubadmin.com/event-results.php?event=163

Good luck to all A-level students collecting their results today!!

✨GW SMITH Thursday 6th August racing✨ Some lovely photos capturing Tammy sailing in a beautiful way! This is your reminder to come down and join in with our racing as we only have 3 weeks left of Thursday evening racing for 2026😱. Find out more info on WhatsApp group chats or head over to the website linked in bio🔗 All abilities welcome❤️

📸 Chris Wade

We have had some exciting racing the past couple of Sunday and Thursday evenings even without some missing racers due to Salcombe Merlin week which was another brilliant year - well done to all who competed!

It’s not too late to join in the fun, even if you don’t wish too sail. Head over to the website calendar linked in bio 🔗 to see the upcoming!

📸 Tamesis Club, London members

Racing on Sunday ( 28th June) was a pursuit race for the ✨Cutty Sark Bolt and the Kempton Nut✨. Peter Mason as race officer set a long course up towards Kingston Bridge in a mainly westerly wind F1-4. Fifteen boats entered including 5 Juniors. Toby S-H set off at 11:00 as the sole Topper entry. The other classes soon followed. Toby held the lead for quite a while until being overhauled by ILCAs helmed by Ilker Sener, Marcus Chavasse and Lyra Wade. However with about 20 minutes to go to the finish Richard Harris and Jason Stokes in a Merlin took and retained the lead to win the Cutty Sark Bolt. Second and third were Ilker Sener and Marcus Chavasse both in ILCAs. Lyra Wade in fourth sailed a great race to retain the Kempton Nut as well as Toby S-H not too far behind her.

🥇Richard Harris and Jason Stokes - Merlin Rocket
🥈Ilker Sener - ILCA
🥉Marcus Chavasse - ILCA
4th Lyra Wade - ILCA
5th Toby S-H - Topper
🥇Junior - Lyra Wade

📸 Carolyne Vines Carolyne Vines