Falmouth Week 2009 9th-15th August

HELLO, WELCOME TO HENRI LLOYD FALMOUTH WEEK 2009 Your host clubs have been working very hard organising this year’s event, in the light of the fantastic amount of “Feedback” you sent us THANK YOU for taking the time to help us improve the event for you our competitors. Falmouth Week Champagne day is moving to the middle of the week, to break the week up for you. You remember back in 1951 Lord Shawcross was competing against his friend Jack Silley, they got so excited racing each other that they broke away from the fleet till one of them came out on top, the loser presented a case of champagne to the winner, we don’t know what the race officer said!

This year IRC and PY yachts will race in their Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week Divisions so there’s more chance of a champagne prize for you, don’t forget: OSR CAT 4 for this long coastal race. IF you’re not CAT 4 don’t worry, there will still be racing for you and a champagne prize if you’re first, that’s right, all classes that day - a bottle of bubbly if you’re 1st. Henri Lloyd Dinghy Week goes from strength to strength, two races a day in the beautiful Carrick Roads, where the tides and wind will test you as well as the talented opposition. Thinking about the Olympics 2012, ’16, ’20? Well, Restronguet Sailing Club is where it all began for Ben Ainslie, so if you win here, well who knows? In the evenings go surfing on the North Coast only twenty minutes away, or just chillout with a Barbie on the beach, later hit the nightlife in Falmouth, the party never stops! Want to race your yacht in Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week? Come on down explore the wonderful coastline as you go, or if you are coming a long way include a night passage in your trip, don’t forget you can see the stars in the clear Cornish night skies. Bring some other yachts with you and compete for a team prize for top club. What’s waiting for you when you get to Falmouth? Lots of good racing, regatta courses and on other days two windward leeward races. There’s a five day series for IRC 1, 2 and 3, finishing in magical St Mawes on Friday, but there’s something new for you this year: after sailing to Falmouth will you have the strength to do it ? “THE HENRI LLOYD FALMOUTH WEEK IRONMAN SERIES”: you will have to race on Saturday for this one, as well as every other day of your series, because, and here’s the twist ALL RACES TO COUNT. Think you are good? Well let’s see ! Sailing PY with spinnaker or white sail: as well as your daily prizegiving at your host clubs, and end of week series prizegiving at the Regatta Centre there will be IRONMAN prizes for you too, in fact IRONMAN prizes for all classes racing in Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week same rule ALL RACES TO COUNT. Inshore racing around the “cans” in an open boat in the great river Fal estuary “CARRICK ROADS” between the two Tudor castles Pendennis and St. Mawes guarding Falmouth Harbour. It’s great fun - the tides and swirling winds will test you and the locals too! We are going to try two races on one day, you liked it last year, so we want to see if we can do it and still give you plenty of time back at your host club for the day’s hospitality and tall stories. The famous FALMOUTH WORKING BOATS will be there too, racing to the heart of the host clubs, as well as the classic-lined FALMOUTH SUNBEAMS, the GAFFERS and St.MAWES ONE-DESIGNS, along with every other class from AJAX to FLYING FIFTEEN. They all want to win their class and now they want IRONMAN. What will it cost me to enter Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week? GOOD NEWS: LESS THAN LAST YEAR, and a 20% discount on the full week fee for a visitor introducing a newcomer not entered in the last seven years.

Steve Nicholls - Chairman POFSA

So don’t forget HENRI LLOYD FALMOUTH WEEK----BE PART OF IT.

Provisional dates for the next two years are:

2010 7th-14th August
2011 6th - 13th August