Western Area 2026 Report
After the conclusion of the 2025 Western Series sponsored by P&B and Dinghy Shack, we now look forward to another year of racing. Mike Dray was crowned the 2025 Western Series Champion following his superb performance at Salcombe, a venue he had never sailed before. The 2026 P&B Solo Western Series continues to be sponsored by P&B following their great support through 2025. With them also sponsoring the P&B Solo Nationals at Royal Torbay YC, also in our area, and the Southern Series. It is great to have a company that provides so much support to our class including presenting a Solo, my 6139, at the Dinghy Show this year which got huge attention. Our goal is to try and get more travelling this year and as part of that we have stopped the double headers, i.e. 2 local events on the same weekend, following the results of a small survey. Hopefully this will help, however we do encourage more of our regular sailors to travel to other events in the region to help out their fellow clubs, and support the series, but we also appreciate that last year was heavily a ff ected by the wind resulting in Starcross and South Cerney being cancelled and Torpoint and Porthpean being very windy events. At the time of writing this article the P&B Solo Western Series should have started at Torpoint Mosquito SC on 11 th April and we could have lovely photos and results, however, with the wind at 25kts+ and gusting well up in the 30kts+ range we had to make the sad decision to cancel the event. However, Steve Roberts has worked hard to reschedule the event for Saturday 22 nd August shared with the Phantom’s and with their Regatta on the Sunday you can stay on for a 2 nd days racing. The weather also resulted in the Porthpean open being removed from our calendar as the storms earlier this year took out their concrete slipway to the beach and all are awaiting the local council replacing it with no certainty of when. The Western Series will now o ffi cially kick o ff at Dittisham on 10 th May, a fantastic, picturesque venue and very welcoming club. This is followed by our first visit to a new venue for the Solos at Llandegfedd, near Usk, for the P&B Welsh Solo Champs on 23/24 May. A new venue so worthy of being well attended. Then the P&B Western Champs at Chew Valley on 20/21 June, preceded by a NSCA Training Day with Olly Davenport on the 19 th June. The full list of events is on the modified P&B Western Area poster and in the NSCA website calendar just waiting for you to put them in your calendars. The series culminates with the South Cerney Open and our Western EoS on 31 st October with events scheduled for every month, so nicely spread out. We look forward to seeing you at our events this year. Vernon Perkins – Western Area Rep
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