Calling all male sailors - can you help encourage female helms?

The RS Class Association have recently announced two RS Women's Weekends for 2024 - we now invite all male sailors to help encourage our female sailors by crewing during these events.

The weekends are:

23/24 March Rutland SC, RS200, RS400, RS500, RS800

6/7 July, Lymington Town SC, RS200, RS400, RS800, in conjunction with RS Aero Women's Championships

The weekends will be open to all female helms, crewed by males or females, and are aimed at experienced sailors, as well as those helming for the first time.

So we are asking our male sailors:

• Can you helm for your female regular crew or helm at Rutland and/or Lymington?
• Do you know a female sailor who may appreciate an invitation to helm for you?
• Might you like to crew for an established female sailor in your fleet, who could benefit from your experience?
• Would you like to us to pair you up with someone? 

The RS Class Association are keen to encourage and help develop our female sailors, and in particular encourage more women to helm.  We are proud to have a good representation of female sailors at all levels across our fleets and want to do all we can to further this.

We are delighted that RYA High Performance Coach, Vincent Horey and 49er/RS800/British Transition Squad sailor Ben Bradley will be the coaches for Rutland, and that top RS200 sailor Will Taylor and 49er fx sailor Alice Masterman will coach at Lymington - so male crews will undoubtedly benefit too!

More details and online entry for Rutland here and Lymington here

Please do contact sally@rs-association.com if we can help facilitate this for you.