Weymouth
Speed Week 2011 - News
Ten Nations will be represented at
Weymouth Speed Week 2011!
New Chandlery business and Weymouth Speed
Week supporter.
Weymouth Sail Sports, who run a chandlery business from WPNSA, have very
generously offered to support the Weymouth Speed Week boat class with prizes. The
chandlery has a comprehensive range of spares. Many thanks to Mark Barnes.
Parking
This map depicts the parking arrangements for Weymouth Speed Week
entry to and from the WPNSA will be via the first gate which is very close to the OTC
cabin. Windsurf vans, trailers and boats have a
dedicated parking area within 50m to the slipway. Vehicles will not be allowed to enter
into the dinghy park. Open Map >
Event Guide 2011
Final version of the 2011 Event Guide is now
available. Read about the new courses, the course opening times and the checklist of what
to bring to registration. Read More
>
Notice of Race
Notice of Race for The Simmer Weymouth Speed Week 2011 containing a Speed World
Cup sanctioned event on behalf of the International Speed Windsurfing Class(ISWC). Also it
is the official British championships sanctioned by the United Kingdom Windsurfing
Association(UKWA) Read More >
Web site to help find
accommodation
I run a website on Portland accommodation (the largest of its kind) and was wondering
whether this would be useful information to your members for Speed Week. The site covers
Hotels, Bed and Breakfasts, Cottages, Caravan Parks and by the time Speed Week comes
around many of the best places to eat out on Portland too. I would very much appreciate a
link somewhere on your site if you think my site would be useful to them. I currently have
a windsurfing page on the site where we mention speed week (with link) as it is an event I
try and get down to myself (strictly spectating these days!) having spent 20 years myself
windsurfing in the harbour. Many thanks, Neil Lemon.
The site can be found at www.portlandholidaylet.co.uk.
 SSERPANT
As many of you will know, apart from going fast, one of the major challenges at
Weymouth Speed Week is how to accurately measure many thousands of speed runs, often in
atrocious weather and visibility, and process the results. Many people have contributed to
solving this problem over the years; Robert Downhill, Joddy Chapman, Bob Spagnoletti...and
now technology has offered us GPS data logging for each individual competitor (we'd really
like real time 2km telemetry as well please!). Manfred Fuchs has developed the superb GPS
Results software which many of us use. For Speed Week we will be using an enhanced version
of this, the challenge remaining is to marry each individual run to the competitor's
personal data and the relevant wind data. Tim Daish has risen to this challenge and
developed SSerpant. If this year we can produce the day's results and get to the bar
before closing time it will be thanks to Tim!
Read more >
Wanting to push yourself
to go that bit faster?
Expecting aching limbs? Katherine Knight of Ocen Motion Physiotherapy based at WPNSA is
offering to arrange event support for Speed Week with discounted rates for competitors.
She offers an injury assessment and treatment service as well as a massage to ease those
aching limbs and give competitors the edge to push themselves that bit faster!
More information is available
online at www.oceanmotionphysiotherapy.co.uk |
