Last weekend saw the final 2 events on the CCCA calendar, the Comet Duo Worlds at Cransley and the CCCA Cruise at Poole Harbour. The Duo Worlds sounds as if it was a great fun event with 12 boats taking part, mixing racing with off water entertainment. Competitors spanned a wide age range and represented a variety of nationalities. I urge you to read the event report on Yachts and Yachting https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/300256/Comet-Duo-Worlds-and-Nationals-at-Cransley to get a true flavour of the event!

The CCCA Cruise was perhaps the first Open Weekend for dinghy cruising! It was held at Poole Yacht Club and was attended by Steve and Mel
in a Comet Trio and Nick G in his Versa. Boats were sailed on both days and on Sunday a good distance was covered around Poole Harbour in a stiff breeze with 2 landing sites visited. For Steve’s full report please see Poole Cruise

The sun shone, the wind blew and 7 great races were sailed by the 19 strong Trio fleet at this years Nationals. 5 visiting boats joined the 14 Exe based boats to have a great weekend of sailing and socials. Race Officer Les Arscott set challenging courses which enabled new champions Chris and Ben Biglin to show off their upwind speed. Over 20% of helms were women and there was a significant age range amongst the male helms this, together with the wide variation in crew weights shows the versatility of the Trio as a family dinghy that is suitable for racing and cruising. Full reports of each day are available at Yachts and Yatching and many thanks to our class sponsors Noble Marine for enabling us to run our class association and events such as this

The Trio Nationals are only 2 weeks away, the entries are coming in, the volunteers are ready to welcome you and of course the weather will be beautiful for racing at sea!

If you haven’t entered yet please do so, it’s all set to be a great event and we look forward to seeing as many Trio sailors as possible. The Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions, Entry form and tickets for the Friday BBQ and Saturday Dinner are all available via the Exe SC website Open Events tab https://exe-sailing-club.org/open-events/comet-trio-nationals

Following on from the successful Trio Inlands and CometFest the next event on the CCCA calendar is the Trio Nationals at Exe SC on Friday 7th Aug through to Sunday 9th Aug. All Trio Mk1 sailors are invited to attend and pit their sailing skills against the longstanding members of the fleet and of course the current National Champions Andrew and Caroline McAusland. There will be 7 races over the 3 days out in the beautiful Lyme Bay. The social side will be well looked after with a BBQ on the Friday and the Trio Dinner on the Saturday evening. The galley will be open before sailing to provide hot drinks, bacon butties etc and there will be tea and cake after sailing. The NoR, SIs and entry form are on the Exe SC website https://exe-sailing-club.org/page/open-events together with other information which you may find useful during your stay with us.

Please enter early to help us plan for the event.

The next event on the calendar is the CometFest at Cotswold SC on the 13/14 June. Poppy and Jane are working hard to get the details published so keep an eye out on the CCCA Facebook page. This event incorporates the Versa Inland Championships so all you Versa sailors out there, this is your event! Of course the Trios, Duos and Zeros are all welcome too and the more the merrier, at the last count there at least 8 Trios planning to come. Loads of good camping for camping for tents, caravans, camper vans and motor homes. Fresh water, showers and toilets in clubhouse.  Portapoti disposal and fresh water tap by main gate.   There’s a meal planned for Saturday night and refreshments during the day.    Plenty of takeaways and pubs locally. It all sounds like a lot of fun so do make the effort to come.

Following that the Trio Nationals are at Exe SC on the 7, 8, 9 Aug. NoR and SIs are on the Exe SC website and entries are now open.

The last event of the season is a cruising event at Poole YC on 26/27 Sep. We do hope that those of you who don’t race (and perhaps some that do) will take the opportunity to join Cody SC members in cruising the beautiful waters of Poole Harbour.

We had a great time at Llangorse where the club was as welcoming as ever and the scenery is second to none. Adrian and Tracey won again in a fleet of 8 boats with a great demonstration of light wind sailing in the shifty conditions. For more details see the report on Y&Y

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.