Classes & Racing

Pennine Sailing Club

Racing at Pennine

Pennine is a dinghy-racing club, and our main racing activities are on Sundays and Thursday evenings.

The main Sunday programme begins around the end of March, ending during November. The format is usually 3-5 handicap races, starting at 11:00am, and with a break for lunch. Some Sundays are one-day events with all the races forming part of the same competition, but others have each race as part of one or more series sailed over several weeks. We also run Class Open Meetings on Sundays, but unless very large numbers are expected we run these in parallel with the club racing.

Sunday sailing continues through the winter but racing is organised on an ad hoc basis, to some extent dependent on the weather and/or who turns up. Some winter Sundays (or weekends) are given over to inter-varsity Open events organised by one or other of the Sheffield universities’ sailing sections.

The Thursday evening programme is governed by the light, typically beginning in May and running through to August.   The aim is to run one or two handicap races from 7:00pm or 7:30pm, finishing before dark, and in time for a pie & pea supper.

 

Dinghy Classes at Pennine

Most members sail their own boats and the majority are single-handed, although there are some two-man boats including a competitive fleet of Scorpions. The club also owns a number of boats which are used for training, and may also be hired by members. There is a wide variety of classes overall, and those mentioned below seem to be the most popular at present.   The club training/hire fleet is comprised of those classes shown in yellow:

Racing at Pennine

Pennine is a dinghy-racing club, and our main racing activities are on Sundays and Thursday evenings.

The main Sunday programme begins around the end of March, ending during November. The format is usually 3-5 handicap races, starting at 11:00am, and with a break for lunch. Some Sundays are one-day events with all the races forming part of the same competition, but others have each race as part of one or more series sailed over several weeks. We also run Class Open Meetings on Sundays, but unless very large numbers are expected we run these in parallel with the club racing.

Sunday sailing continues through the winter but racing is organised on an ad hoc basis, to some extent dependent on the weather and/or who turns up. Some winter Sundays (or weekends) are given over to inter-varsity Open events organised by one or other of the Sheffield universities’ sailing sections.

The Thursday evening programme is governed by the light, typically beginning in April and running through to early September. The aim is to run one or two handicap races from 7:00pm or 7:30pm, finishing before dark.

 

Dinghy Classes at Pennine

Most members sail their own boats . The club also owns a number of boats which are used for training, and may also be hired by members. There is a wide variety of classes overall, 

The Club Traing boats consiste of Optimists / Toppers / Lasers (ILCAs) /Picos / Rs Fevas /Laser2000s/ RS Visions