The Trio Inland Championships will be held at Llangorse SC on 16/17 May 26. Please see the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions. We have enjoyed many excellent events at Llangorse and they are looking forward to sailing both their privately owned Trios and their club Trios at the event. CCCA members have kindly offered to bring spare sets of Mk1 sails for the Llangorse club boats so that the whole fleet will be sailing with Mk1 rigs which should make for a great event. The Kestrel class will be joining us on the water for an open event and on the Saturday evening the club are putting on a 2 course fixed meal and glass of wine at the club for only £15 per head.  I do hope that if you are taking part in the event then you will all will join us for the evening social. Additional drinks may be bought in by yourselves as Llangorse have no bar facility to compete with. Additionally free tea and coffee will be available for competitors over the weekend.  This promises to be an excellent event so please if you can come do so!

The 2025 AGM has been rescheduled to Tuesday 24 February 26. All CCCA members have been sent an email with the Zoom link on 15 Jan 26. The agenda is available together with the Officers reports and the Trio Builder’s report under the Documents Tab .Please support your class association by attending this meeting.

Bob Horlock, Chairman CCCA

Your committee met on 6 Nov 25 with Glyn Rawson in attendance. We reviewed this years events and arrangements for next year. In addition we set a date for the 2025 AGM. Due to the requirement to give members 28 days notice of the AGM and the approaching festive season, it was decided that the 2025 AGM will be held in 2026, to be specific, on the 13 January 2026 at 19.30. The AGM will be held via Zoom and the agenda can be found on the documents page or via this link. Please let Caroline and I know if you wish to formally add an item to the agenda in accordance with the constitution.

Bob Horlock

The CCCA is pleased to announce that next year’s Trio Nationals will take place at Exe Sailing Club on Friday 7th, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of August 2026. We do hope that as many Trio sailors as possible will come and take part so please put the dates in your diary/mobile phone today.

Well done to the 15 Trios that came to Brixham for 3 days of sea sailing in Torbay. We had 3 distinctly different days, a very light wind Friday, a full power F4 with 20 plus knot gusts on the Saturday and a perfect 7 -10 knot sea breeze on the Sunday. Full reports can be found on the Yachts and Yachting website https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/288939/Noble-Marine-Comet-Trio-Mark1-Nationals-overall. Suffice it to say that a great time was had by all, Caroline and Andrew McAusland added their name to the Trophy for the 9th time, proving that in the varied conditions of the weekend they are still the masters of the Comet Trio. Full results are on the Y&Y final day report. Next year’s Nationals will be at Exe SC at a date TBD.

We’ve lined up 3 great days of racing in glorious Torbay based at Brixham Yacht Club. We’ve been there before and had great racing in conjunction with their dinghy regatta. The racing is planned to be 2 races on Friday followed by 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. There will be a Trio fleet start on each day. On the Friday the Versas will have their own start and on the Saturday and Sunday they will join in with the Brixham Dinghy Regatta fleet. The Notice of Race for the Trio and Versa Nationals is available on the Brixham YC website. Please have a good read! Entry is via the Brixham YC website . You will be asked to create an account with Brixham YC. Early entry helps everyone plan for the event so please enter soon and don’t forget to book your accommodation!

There hasn’t been a Versa Nationals held for a few years, so if you ever race your Versa at club racing, give yourself a weekend away in sunny Devon and come and meet other Versa sailors and your CCCA committee.

We look forward to meeting both Trio and Versa sailors in a few weeks time.

Membership of the CCCA has for many years been both free and reliant on a single completion of a membership form. Over the years the data that we have on CCCA members has become out of date primarily because there has been no annual renewal of this data. This means that our membership register no longer enables us to effectively contact our membership. Having considered this issue your committee has decided to utilize a commercially available membership software package provided by membermojo.

This means that we ask anyone who wants to be a member of the CCCA to fill in the membership application form on the Join Us page of this website. The form is very simple and takes no more than a couple of minutes because we have reduced the information required to the minimum. Membership remains free!

Please do this soonest, after the end of August we will no longer use the old membership register and only those signed up via membermojo will be considered to be CCCA members.

Bob Horlock

Chairman CCCA

This is the first time we have run this event and we are very keen to have Versas, Duos and Zeros attend.   We are already expecting 15 Mk1 Trios at the event and we have Versa, Duo and Zero helms at Cotswold hoping that others will turn up.     We also have 4 Comet Races – most of you will never have seen a Comet Race.

The Festival is not just about racing.    There is cruising and training, camping, meals and the opportunity to meet and socialise. See Comet Festival 2 for more information.     

The Festival Entry Form is here and for those intending to race please see the NOR and SIs If you’d prefer this information e-mailed to you please contact Richard Salliss direct.   

Please encourage every Comet doublerhander that you know to come – it would be great to see them.    They can bring their supporters too, so if for instance Fred is going to turn up with his boat then he can bring friends or family to sail his boat over the Festival period as well.

Hope to see you there too

Regards

Richard Salliss

07938 235320

richardsalliss@gmail.com

The preparations for the Comet Festival have been going well and we are pleased to announce that the Notice of Race (NoR) and Sailing Instructions (SIs) for the Comet Inland Championships on the weekend of the Festival (7th and 8th June) are now available here.

Richard Salliss tells me that he is expecting 15 Comet Trios for the Trio Inlands, one of the biggest turnouts ever! If you’ve not yet let him know that you are hoping to attend please do so soon and remember that it’s not just Trios but all the all the Comet double handers that are invited to this event. Do go along and join in the fun!

What is a Comet Festival?     Well we don’t know really as we’ve never had one before so we are flexible but here is the basis of it – we would like YOU to come along and make it YOUR Festival!    See Comet Festival 5th – 10th June 25 – Schedules for details of our current plans.

There will be lots of Comet Chatter and Comet Camping as well as Comet Cruising and Comet Racing.      Nothing is compulsory of course; you choose.     Clearly there will also be the opportunity to Try a Different Comet.      And bring the family – there’s a walkable pub in the village and Bibury, Cricklade, Bourton on the Water, Cirencester, Lechlade and lots of really rather nice villages are nearby.

Craft Welcome – All Comet double handed dinghies.        This is a meeting for all double handed Comets – Trio, Versa, Duo, Zero and the not so well known Comet Race (only 8 ever made but we’ve got 4 of them at Cotswold!).      

Now at Cotswold we have 7 Mk1 Trio, and several Versa, Duo and Zero dinghies as well as the 4 Comet Race dinghies.     So already we have a few boats and owners attending and waiting to welcome you.      We would like you to come and also if you know of any other Comet owners bring them too!

Racing for each class will take place over the weekend for those interested and the Trio will be holding their Inland Championship over the weekend.      So something to gawk at for you gongoozlers and the land surrounding the lake is all accessible for close up viewing of the racing – none of those white dots on the horizon!    You might even get some bow wave spray from one or two viewing points…

Cruising.     Any time there is not racing taking place then you can cruise – so from Thursday through to Tuesday.      A substantial number of the Comet sailors are not racers and so their opportunities to meet other Comets is limited – but here at the Festival there should be lots of chances.                                 

With all the Comet Doublehanded boats in one place it would be good to have a ‘Try a Comet’ session.     I’ve designated the Friday and also the Saturday after racing but there will be opportunities at almost any time during the Festival.

Camping      Our surrounding land is flat and there’s plenty of it.    Everyone should get a bankside pitch.       Tents, caravans, campervans and motorhomes all welcome.    Plenty of B&B, pubs and hotels locally as well.

Comet Chatter      Well there will be plenty of that!       Not just around the campfire – we will also organise a get-together with an optional meal for the Saturday evening in the clubhouse.     Oh, have I mentioned the sandwiches and cake?     There will be both on the Saturday and Sunday – with chatter.

Cotswold is a family club and you are welcome and encouraged to bring your family in support.      Under 18s must have an adult with them.    Our grounds are fenced and secure.       Well behaved dogs are welcome.    We have easy slipways and the tide doesn’t go out.

You’ll be interested to know that the Comet Festival won’t break the bank.      Early bird bookings for the event are £35 per boat.     After the 15^th of May it’ll be £45.       Camping is £5 per adult (over 18) per night.     The Saturday evening meal will be £10 per person or you can bring your own food

Contact for queries      Richard Salliss   07938 235320      richardsalliss@gmail.com

Contact for Trio matters Chris Biglin    trio @cometcombinedclasses.co.uk

Contact for CCCA matters Bob Horlock   commodore @cometcombinedclasses.co.uk