More than 70 boats are entered for this weekend's John Merricks Tiger Trophy at Rutland Sailing Club. After a season that has dogged the events in the Seldén Sailjuice Winter Series with either next-to-no-wind or Storm This-That-or-the-Other, event #8 looks like it might actually get some decent breeze.
Many of the usual suspects have already signed up, including multi-champions Nick Craig in his Finn and current Series leaders, Tom Gillard and Rachael Gray in their Scorpion. As usual, Olympic medallist David Wilkins will head up a crack team of race officials and is running back-to-back handicap racing on Saturday and the Pursuit Race on Sunday morning.
After racing on Saturday, there will be a racing debrief by super-coach Simon Horsfield (see below), as well as Six Nations Rugby on the big screen in the club (Ireland v England at 1645 hours) and then the legendary Tiger Dinner (Bangers & Mash, a John Merricks favourite) in the evening.
If you fancy signing up for one of the big winter classics on one of the most beautiful stretches of water in the heart of England, sign up for the Tiger...
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