North Region Double Handed Team Racing Championships 2026
We are pleased to announce that entry to the regional team racing
Championships at Ripon Sailing Club on 19 & 20 September 2026 is now open!
Notice of Race & entry form is now live!
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Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September 2026
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Ripon Sailing Club
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Two boat team racing in RS Feva XL
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On-site camping, caravans, campervans & motorhomes.
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Breakfast & lunches will be available.
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Saturday evening meal will be available.
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Friday night arrival possible.
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Club bar open Friday & Saturday evening.
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Lots of local accommodation available.
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Coaching support for all teams across the weekend.
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Open to any U19 sailor who lives, is at school, or is a member of a club, in the North region. Non-regional teams may apply for a space but will be accommodated after all regional teams have been offered places.
Join the chatter about this event and all the other north region team racing conversation on the NEYYSA Whats'app community, please contact us to be added (after due diligence) to the discussion!
Our thanks to K-Sail for their continued support of this event.
Team Racing?
What's it all about?
It's official, the north region Y&J love team-racing!
Not heard of this, or not had a go before - fear not. It's great fun and will help with your boat handling, rules knowledge and strategic thinking - all vital skills when out fleet racing. You'll also get a coveted North Team Racing Turquoise Beanie if you attend our regional team racing champs - help the North's Team Racing Army take over the world (ok - perhaps a bit of a stretch, but at least you'll have the best headgear at events)
Here's a great intro to team racing from the RYA.
In simple terms, teams of 2 or 3 boats race against another team. The first team to get their boats over the finish line in a winning combination (points score equal to or less than 10 in 3 boat racing, last boat loses in 2 boat team racing) wins the race. Unlike regular racing you can deploy dastardly tactics and cunning plans to help each other change places, slow the other team down and get your boats over the line in a winning combo. Team racing is fast & fun with races that last 8-10 minutes, so you'll do lots of starts each day.
If that's got you interested, then settle down for this in-depth look at team racing from the RYA's team racing gurus.
If you want to see some our region's sailors in action, check out these clips from the 2022 Eric Twiname Double Handed Team Racing Champs.
Like all our events, it will be a fun, supportive and inclusive environment where you can try something new or improve on existing skills. As always there will be coaches around at the event to help the less experienced teams learn as much as possible so that they can get as much out of the weekend as the teams who have done it before.
Using the sailing rules you try to force the other team into making an error which means they have to do a penalty turn.
Racing is umpired and if you successfully force an error, then you can shout "protest" and the umpire may award a penalty to the other team.
All sailors need a protest flag tied to their buoyancy aid.
A little recap of previous regional team racing events!
NSSA Double Handed Team Racing Comes to the Region in 2026!
We are delighted to be hosting the National School Sailing Association's 2026 Double Handed Team Racing Championship at Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club on 21 & 22 March.
Notice of Race Saturday Rota
Information to Competitors Sunday Rota
Racing Schedule
There is a Telegram Channel for the event. A joining link has been sent to all teams.
Camping information has been sent to everyone who has registered.
We can also confirm
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On-site camping, campervans & motorhomes at £6ppn. Booking information has been sent to team managers.
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Unfortunately, due to the club's operating licence caravans are not permitted on site, if you have a caravan please consider supporting local business Stump Cross Caverns who offer overnighting for caravans 2 miles from the club.
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Food can be pre-ordered, details have been sent to team managers.
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Saturday evening meal will be available and there will be an evening social.
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Local accommodation available in Harrogate or Skipton & surrounding areas. For assistance/suggestions please contact us.
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Sailors will need to be personal members of NSSA.
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Teams must be entered by an organisation affiliated to the NSSA.
Join the chatter about this event and all the other north region team
racing conversation on the NEYYSA Whats'app community,
please contact us to be added (after due diligence) to the discussion!
Our thanks to K-Sail for their continued support of NEYYSA and this
event.
NEYYSA sailors at the 2025 NSSA Double Handed Team Racing Championships at Chew Valley SC (March 2025)
Thanks to Sheffield University Sailing Club for these photos from a March 2025 Random Pairs event which featured a few NEYYSA Sailors (& NEYYSA's chair!)
Random Pairs Christmas Team Racing - Monday 22 December 2025
Ripon Sailing Club
We had a great day. As befitting the season, we were racing for gold, silver & bronze… chocolate coins.
18 pairs signed up, including some guest sailors from Sheffield Uni and Southampton Uni and a few keen parents who have volunteered at our team racing events this year but haven’t actually got in a firefly till now!
After a briefing to explain how it was going to work, sailors in the first races launched the fireflies kindly loaned to NEYYSA by Leeds University & York University. Those not racing were in the start or finish boat or umpire boats and there was lots of laughter, chat and questions while people got into the swing of it.
The wind was light, even by normal Ripon standards so umpires were watching for rule 42 as well as the usual team racing antics. There was a big spread of ability and experience within the pairs, including one sailor in his first race and two other sailors team racing for the first time. The more experienced NEYYSA sailors were delighted to welcome 4 university students into the fray and there were some good tussles between them throughout the day. Alongside an eclectic array of Christmas headwear, 3 of the students donned fancy dress for the event, whilst the hot pink velvet jacket & shorts with a pink furry stetson combo was the author’s favourite, the reindeer was popular with our younger crews and several hopped into her boat for a race (& team racing lesson) while her crew had a rest. Another uni sailor was acting as helm and coach for one of NEYYSA’s new to team racing young sailors.
Over the course of the day 38 races were completed which given the lack of wind was nothing short of a (Christmas) miracle, despite the light conditions we enjoyed some very competitive racing and the more experienced team racers shared their knowledge with the other sailors. Many of the sailors had not run racing before so there was also lots of learning on how to start and finish races and recording results. The umpire boats were popular locations to watch the racing from; there were several umpires amongst the older sailors and some of the other sailors also had a go with supervision.
Given the winter solstice was the day before, it was a short day and we packed the boats up in the gloaming before heading into the clubhouse for prizes and a post sailing pizza social. Leeds UTC had the highest number of wins, closely followed by the Ginger Ninjas, Treaddur Titans and Henry & George. Full results are available here
This was the first random pairs event NEYYSA has organised and there is enthusiasm for another one. Thank you to everyone who helped make the day so much fun - on the water or by manning the kettle and cooking the pizzas and then doing the washing up. Thank you also to all the parents who drove sailors there & back during a busy week.
Merry Christmas!
Sailors at the 2025 North Region Team Racing Championships at Ripon SC (September 2025)
NSSA Single Handed Team Racing
Toppers
Date & venue tbc but usually the last weekend in September or first weekend in October.
We are planning to send as many teams as possible. This is open to all sailors U19, you don't need to be a Topper sailor to participate. Boats are provided.
You don't necessarily need to have a parent with you to attend this event although we do need some adult support to assist with transport and supervision. You will need to join the NSSA as a personal member to attend this event (£10).
NEYYSA will allocate sailors to teams and their decision as to which sailors attend is final.
Information will be shared once it is available.
NEYYSA Sailors at the 2025 NSSA Single Handed Team Racing Championships at Aztec Activity Centre, Upton Warren
(October 2025)
Eric Twiname Double Handed Youth & Junior Team Racing Championships
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October 2026. (Probably Oxford SC)
We will again be helping as many North teams as possible get entered into this event. Information will be sent out once it is available. This event is either 2 boat Feva teams or 3 boat Firefly teams.
In 2025 there were over 35 North sailors at the event and we had an absolute blast of a weekend, despite the wind not really playing ball! Photos below from the 2025 event.
NB: Our experience of the ET event is that it is pretty "full on" and for a more mellow & supportive introduction to team-racing we really encourage new to team-racers to participate in our regional event & the NSSA events first to find their team-racing sea-legs!
Sailors at the 2025 Eric Twiname Youth & Junior Team Racing Championships at Oxford SC (October 2025)
