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The Sailing Chandlery RS200 Northern Tour needs you!

The Sailing Chandlery RS200 Northern Tour has been a fantastic success for many years, with racing events and training sessions encouraging and supporting new sailors, youth sailors and and club sailors as well as offering top level racing at the best venues across the North, from grass roots clubs to championship venues.

The 2025 programme is almost complete, with many familiar RS200 favourite clubs, plus a new venue or two on the tour - the full list of dates will be announced soon.

So why do we need YOU?

The tour is organsed by a volunteer Northern Tour Rep, for the last 2 years Ben Teague has done a fantastic job for us, taking over from Olivia Leonard and before that Ollie Groves and Esther Parkhurst. Ben is stepping down this year - literally; he's moving to the South Coast, so unless you'd like all your events south of Watford in 2026, we need a new rep!

What does it involve?

With the 2025 dates already in place, the role through the season is to

• Liaise with a named contact at the host club ahead of each event to agree the race format and get the NoR so that Sally can add all the details to the website - we have standard templates, so it's pretty easy
• Do some social media promo for each event - simple posts are fine
• Make sure the Sailing Chandlery prizes get to each of the clubs - this could all be done at the start of the season
• Ask someone at each event to write a short report (this can be a simple rule such as 3rd place is report writer) and send the report, results link and a handful of photos to Sally for the website and Y&Y. Ypu donb't need to go to eevry event - you can ask someone at the home club or another sailor to cover

Happy to help? 

Please contact Sally

Thanks for reading to the end, your reward, a sneak preview of the 2025 Tour Dates!