Cooler series 2025 at Shoreham Sailing Club
by William Warren 5 Dec 2025 05:52 PST
Cooler series at Shoreham during November © Ivan Walsh
Shoreham SC Cooler series is run every weekend in November as an open event before the winter chills kick in. This November proved to be a blustery affair with high winds and mountainous seas greeting the hardy competitors to the south coast.
Excellent course management and easy launching into the calm waters of the harbour, meant that we were able to sail all but one of the Sundays on offer with average laps on a trapezoid course. Visitors from as far as West Oxford, Frensham Pond, Papercourt and more local clubs helped swell the local fleet and a total of 33 competitors took part in a highly competitive Cooler.
Fabulous weather greeted the sailors for the final weekend with glorious, although chilly, sunshine. A lovely force 3 NW breeze provided the fleet with champagne conditions for our final sea sail of the year. Another perfect course was set by our Race Officer, Rowan Chaplin and Chris Gould and Sophie Mackley took the two race wins, from William Warren and Andy Prince, both in Merlin Rockets. In race one the first single hander was James Gerwat in his Supernova in fourth, and in the second race it was Simon Barrington in his ILCA finishing third.
The strong local Merlin fleet dominated the series with Chris and Sophie fighting off some close competition from William and Andy (second), Caroline Gould and Livvy Bell and others (third). Paul Walker in his Hadron was the first single hander in fourth and first visitor was Richard Bentley in his Aero 7 who had travelled along the coast from Felpham.
Sea sailing starts once more at Shoreham on 22nd March 2026 and the following are open events where visitors are welcome:
- Easter Cup - 5 and 6 April
- Tiko trophy - 4 May (there is also racing on the Sunday)
- Festival of the Sea - 20 and 21 June
If you can't make these dates visiting sailors can pay a temporary membership of £15 for a weekend of sailing, so come and join us for THE best sailing on the south coast next season. You won't be disappointed.
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