http://nusyc.co.uk NUSC Online: All the news, photos, event info and chat from Newcastle University Sailing Club Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:40:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en George Yeoman and Ed Fitzgerald have just won the FISU Match Racing World Championships!Sailing as part of GBR1 along with 3 other sailors they only dropped 3 races the whole event! GOOD WORK BOYS! http://nusyc.co.uk/2010/07/13/world-champions/ http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sport/news/item/newcastle-students-selected-for-world-student-sailing-eventRead the recent press report of Ed and George http://nusyc.co.uk/2010/05/14/nuau-report-of-fisu-sailors/ Hey guys, Its that time of year again, When you are choosing where to go to uni!  Newcastle is a great place for people who are interested in the social side of life.  The sailing club here is a great environment for everyone who is keen in racing, cruising or ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2010/04/29/prospective-freshers/ YACHTINGThe Easter started with the Yachting nationals in Port Solent.  This is sailed in equally matched sunfast 37s with about 40 uni teams taking part.This year started slowly for Team Newcastle with some top tens and a black flag leaving the team just out side the top ten.  However, with a ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2010/04/29/bucs-results/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2010/03/23/2-sailors-chosen-to-represent-gbr-at-fisu-worlds/ BUCS Championships PreviewYachting:Yachting this year is going to be held at Port Solent.  After finishing a very creditable 5th last year, Newcastle will be looking to improve from here with a basically unchanged team!Team RacingTeam racing finals is being held at Chew Valley in Bristol.  After qualifying directly from ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2010/03/23/bucs-preview/ 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 ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2010/03/23/0910-season/ This weekend saw the firsts and seconds heading their separate ways to London and Sheffield respectively.  This was not to be the 1sts finest hour as some untimely capsizes and some more than sceptical umpire decisions they found themselves in the silver fleet and struggled against a Royal Thames team that ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/18/london-6-pack-and-sheffield-shuffle/ Next was the first BUCS event of the year in the form of the fleet racing.  We sent 4 boats in the for of George Yeoman and Georgie Akin-Smith in the Firefly fleet, Ben Crompton and Tom Altmann in an RS200 and Doug Conway in a Phantom in the ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/18/bucs-fleet-racing/ The first event was the Leeds Halloween Howler which involved a minibus full of fun for the freshers initiation!  This was followed by an epic night in fruity which set us up nicely for the racing on saturday.  The first team, while winning all their races on saturday, found ... http://nusyc.co.uk/2009/11/18/leeds-halloween-howler/