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Now in its fifth season,the series kicks off this year with the Fernhurst Books Draycote Dash on 25th November. There have now been two more events added to the series, the Datchet Flyer and the Oxford Blue! These will be taking place on 14th-15th of December and the 4th of January respectively. Enter one or more events online at SailRacer, all with a single payment and entry form.   
 
There are various incentives to take part, such as the opportunity to win a range of prizes from our event sponsors, and at the Datchet Flyer and Oxford Blue we will be offering live tracking, giving you the opportunity to have your boat tracked to view replays, as well as use this to improve your performance!
 
Each year the SailJuice Winter Series continues to grow with more events and entries than ever. Last year's series saw a 20% increase in entries, with 783 boats representing 91 different classes with a greater following than ever, seeing the Winter Series event site with moire than 42,000 visitors following the racing. 
 
For more information and to enter online please visit the SailJuice event site, we hope to see you there!

[AWILDE]

Is anyone doing any of these? I am planning to attend a few... Does anyone know what handicap were running off?

[Bwgan]

H'cap info here:

http://events.sailracer.info/events/user_files/SWS%20Handicaps%202013-14-20131028-105739.pdf

[Olly]

Not with those handicaps

[Big + Lardy]

We have been racing with that handicap (1008) at club level since 1st April 2013. It gets tougher every year.

[Little Monster]

With Sailracer in charge you'll probably get to an event and find out its only for land sailing or its only for Toppers....

[Olly]

you might have been off 1008 at northampton not sure everyone has.

[AWILDE]

I think the RYA handicaps are out struggle to beat a slightly over averaged sailed Flying 15 on the water.  It might be ok for Northampton that's small and shifty, but on a big lake think this is to much.  The sailracer handicaps may be ok as so many boats have been adjusted a lot from the RYA base a lot more than the Phantom.  Think I would do better sailing a Laser though.

[JeremyH]

1008 ...  no chance

[gordon Kingston]

Hi All
I think people need to look at the whole list not just the Phantom   so many have changed that it is difficult to tell how you would do.
It is only a change of 2 from last year, and didnt Andy Couch win one of the races ? Its not as if he is even any good!
Gordon
1277 for sale in the classifieds

[Olly]

I see that the numbers of phantoms at the sailjuice events is VERY low. I know that I said that I wasnt going to do many due to the 1008 py but I feel that we should do at least one on mass. I intend to do the Steve Nic but was thinking that we should have a push on the Oxford event.
Its a new event for the year and nice and early so a good chance to shake off some of the mince pies and turkey.
What do we think??

[RHYC 1]

After the way we were treated at Sailfest I wont be giving Sailracer any more of my money.

Matthew 1355 ( for sale after xmas)

[Little Monster]

Agree with Matt 100%.

Only doing Stevie Nich because of the Northampton connection.

Ian

[Olly]

Thank you Ian / Matthew for your posts and I fully appreciate that Sail fest didn't go as planned. I'm sorry I wasn't there so I cannot really comment. However being an avid phantomer and loving the class I do feel we need to get word out again about how brilliant the phantom is and believe the best way to do this is to attend such events like the sail juice series. I have some real concerns over popularity currently with several top sailors leaving the class and support at opens dwindling across several regions. I feel any negativity towards any events will only bring us poor press as a class. I fully understand class's racing is what we all want and let's no go in handicaps but if you look at so many classes they have been represented at the last two sail juice events which have a vast amount of coverage on sailing sites and forums so I do feel that from having one bad experience surely for the love and sucess of the class we should give them another chance and get this fantastic boat seen on the water and encourage more sailors to the class.

[Adam]

Olly

I was thinking of maybe doing the Brass Monkey and the Steve Nicholson. The others are abit far from me. Trying not to be away too many weekends in the winter so I can come down and do some sea sailing in the summer again.

Adam