RAMUZ TROPHY

The 2010 event will be sailed under the burgee of the Beccles Amateur Sailing Club on
Sunday 19 September in International Enterprise dinghies.

The Norfolk and Suffolk Yachting Association Inter-Club Championship Trophy was presented by
LR Ramuz in 1950. A different class of yacht and a different venue is chosen by the NSBA each
year. The trophy may be competed for by any organisation affiliated to the NSBA, but that
organisation may enter only one team, expected to consist of its best sailors.

In 2009 the event was hosted by the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club in its 150th Anniversary year. Racing took place in Broads One-Design keelboats which were very much in their element in the sunny, breezy conditions off Lowestoft. Spectators on the roof of the RNSYC Clubhouse had an excellent view of the course.

The 2009 Ramuz Trophy winners, helm Ian Tims and crew Peter Reid, received the cup from organiser Mollie Howes. This is the third time Ian Tims has won the 59-year-old cup as helm and the 26th running of the event that Mollie has organised.

BROADlAND YOUTH REGATTA

Every year since its centenary in 1994, the NSBA has held a regatta for sailors under 19 belonging
to its affiliated sailing clubs. A record 94 youngsters took part in the highly successful 2009
Broadland Youth Regatta hosted by Hickling Broad Sailing Club on Saturday 5 September. The 16th Regatta was staged in ideal conditions on a warm day with clear skies and a fresh westerly breeze. The young sailors were supported by a strong contingent of family, friends and clubs and by the energetic social and racing organisation of the host club.

Not only did the competitors enjoy their day on Hickling Broad, but many of them came away having learnt a lot from their first taste of inter-club competitive sailing. It was impressive to see so many from different organisations, with a wide range of sailing and competitive ability, all get on so well together and being so supportive of each other. Competitors and clubs also had the benefit of prerace instruction and judicious umpiring from the Chairman of the RYA’s Racing Rules Committee, Trevor Lewis.

The inter-club Centenary Salver was won by the NBYC team against keen competition from the
HBSC, WOBYC, BASC and HSC teams. The Salver was presented at the NSBA AGM by NSBA
Chairman, Mark Wells, who also provided each sailor with a DVD of the event and a NSBA flag. The Salver, the original trophy at the regatta, was given to the NSBA by its then President, Sam Hornor.

On regatta day itself, HBSC, sponsored by the Broads Authority as well as by the NSBA, provided
every competitor with a specially designed event T-shirt and other products. There were boating bits
and pieces provided by other sponsors for the winners in the Slow Handicap Series (George Povall
and Becca Sheldrake (HBSC) in a club RS Feva funded by the Broads Sustainable Development
Fund); the Fast Handicap Series (Dale Lawson and James Thompson (also HBSC) in their Laser
Vago); another HBSC winner, Jordan Rumsby, in the Laser Series; and the Topper winner, Simon
Bennett (NBYC). Sportsmanship Awards were presented to Robbie Pinder (HBSC), Joanne Moore (HSC), Casper Baylis (BASC) and Jamie Freeman (WOBYC). However, it was very much in the spirit of the event that the loudest cheer at the presentation went to the young winner of the Lady Mayhew Trophy, Heather Squibb from BASC, sailing an Oppie. She had only been sailing for a few months, and persevered regardless of arduous conditions for a novice and despite coming last in every race. The Lady Mayhew Trophy, presented by the Broads Society in 1995 in memory of Lady Mayhew, is awarded to the competitor who ‘has applied great effort and has shown the spirit of sport, determination and fun without necessarily achieving a top finishing position’.

2010’s Broadland Youth Regatta will be held at Barton Broad, under the burgee of the Norfolk Punt Club, on Saturday 4 September. This year, an additional annual trophy will be awarded. Anne Whelpton has most kindly donated a trophy previously won by her late husband Tim Whelpton, in his memory, and it will be presented to the helm and crew of the top two-handed dinghy.