Optimum Time Phantom Southern Wimbleball Open - 18th March

Eastern Dates 2017

14th January Eastern Winter Championships – Harlow Blackwater SC.
25th March Island Barn Sailing Club Saturday event
6th May Fishers Green Saturday event
10th / 11th June Creeksea Sailing Club Weekend
17th / 18th June Stone Sailing Club Weekend
22nd July Oulton Broad SC Saturday event
26th / 27th /28th August Eastern Region Championships RCYC / Burnham Week Combined Clubs Bank Holiday weekend
14th / 15th October Alton Water Weekend

Optimum Time Watches to Sponsor the 2017 Phantom Southern Travellers Series

Optimum Time have kindly agreed to sponsor the Souther travellers series again. And after getting feedback following last season's series we have a calendar of 10 events with 4 to count as follows

18th March Winbleball
25th March Island Barn ( joint with east region)
23rd April Frensham
6th May Training and 7th May Open Lee on Solent
28th 29th May Shoreham
8th 9th July Weymouth
5th 6th August Downs
8th 9th 10th September Nationals
14th October Bowmoor
11th November Burghfield

Looking forward to seeing some new faces !!

Ivan

Optimum Time Watches 2016 Phantom Southern Travellers Series Round 6 at Burghfield Sailing Club on Saturday 3rd December

Optimum Time Watches 2016 Phantom Southern Travellers Series Round 6 at Burghfield Sailing Club on Saturday 29th October

Burghfield Sailing Club Berkshire is in a nice central location for southern travellers to get to easily. First start 11.00 for a day of popular sprint races, hoping for 8 races and the forcast looks good.
See club website for NOR and directions. http://www.burghfieldsailing.org/e48
11 pre entries so far so come and race your Phantom against Phantom sailors for what looks like being good fun with good starts essential !!

Regards

Ivan

Alton Water Eastern Series final Phantom Open Meeting

Alton Water Phantom Open 15^th-16^th October 2016

Alton Water hosted the last round of the 2016 travellers circuit with 23 entries from around the Eastern region and further afield. Th largest contingent  were from Creeksea SC with 6 boats and one Alton based ex-phantom sailor rejoined the fold for the weekend whilst Matt Hart also from Alton gave the boat a go.

Sailors were greeted with light shifty winds on the Saturday with the days proceedings kicking off with a phantom tuning tutorial by sailors from the front of the fleet, followed by 3 practice races. The last race of the day started the series and in light shifty winds the race was won by Alton water sailor Matthew House coming back to Phantom sailing after a summer sabbatical big boat sailing in Scotland

That evening The Gardeners Arms hosted 22 sailors and PWAGS for the evenings End of Season meal and social gathering. At the end of the evening half the fleet seemed to be staying with Matthew House, whilst the Creeksea  and one Oulton Broad sailor went back to the comfort of the back of their vans and cars.

Read more: Alton Water Eastern Series final Phantom Open Meeting

John Torrance

The Phantom Class is sad to announce the sudden passing of John Torrance on Wednesday 19th October.  John was a long time Phantom Sailor, committee member and class measurer and will be sorely missed.  To quote one of the many posts on facebook "Sailing on the river Crouch won't feel the same without him"

Our thoughts are with his family at this time.