Newcastle University Sailing Club

George Yeoman and Ed Fitzgerald have been selected to sail with GBR1 at the student worlds in Crete this summer.  George and Ed were both part of the bronze medal winning team at BUCS last year.  They are teaming up with gold medallist and their normal helm, top under 23 match racer, Andy Shaw from Southampton.  The rest of the team is made up of Ben Ainsworth from Southampton and Rachel Williamson from Portsmouth.

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Yachting:

Yachting this year is going to be held at Port Solent.  After finishing a very creditable 5^th last year, Newcastle will be looking to improve from here with a basically unchanged team!

Team Racing

Team racing finals is being held at Chew Valley in Bristol.  After qualifying directly from the northern qualifier the first team have been training hard and are looking forward to getting involved in the finals.  After qualifying for the gold fleet last year but missing out on the quarters, the first team will be looking to make the next step up into the knock out stages and a chance of adding to the gold medal from the fleet racing.

Match Racing

Last year match racing was the highlight of the season with the team finishing in 3^rd winning BUCS bronze medals.  This year we are looking for the win with the boats changing from j80s to sonars, and the venue from Queen Mary to Cowes.  And with two of the GBR1 Match Racing team for the FISU Student Worlds on the team chances are looking good for a northern team to disrupt the southern dominance.

This season has lead to a great chance of success in the up coming BUCS events.The first team of Ben Crompton, George Yeoman, Graham Rome, Ed Fitzgerald, Georgie Akin-Smith & Tom Altmann sucessfully qualified for BUCS team racing and had the perfect practice event at UKTRA in West Kirby where they finished 7th overall and 3rd Uni.