NEWS updated 29th June 2009.

Sunsail Racing Series Round 4 18th-19th July The next inshore event will be the Sunsail July weekend. Meet up on the boat Friday night. Four races over the weekend. Cost is £125 a head. Contact the crew bureau to book your place or for more information.

RORC De Guingand Bowl 13-14 June Trevor and the team took Flying Formula to yet another superb result - 22nd out of 79 entrants in IRC (http://csorc.blogspot.com). The crew have now completed the qualifying mileage for the Fastnet, but the next event will be St Malo in July.

IDOR (The Interdepartmental Offshore Regatta) 2009 (31st May to 5th June). The event was dominated by high pressure and very light easterly winds. Much of the fleet was timed out on Tuesday's long raceafter spending half the morning tacking on the spot at Hurst, and racing was abandoned on Thursday, however conditions on Friday improved with a bit more wind to finish off the regatta. Keep an eye on the IDOR page for full results. And have a look at our blog here.

Rolex Fastnet You can follow Trevor and the crew's progress through the qualifiers and the race itself through the Fastnet blog at http://csorc.blogspot.com. The campaign is well underway with two qualifiers now in the bag. The Cervantes race to Le Havre put 120 miles on the account and proved a successful shakedown for the crew. We got 38th place overall, 12th out of 26 in IRC3, and we were the fastest Sigma 38! In the Myth of Malham we were 38th (again!) in IRC overall, out of 72 finishers - 59 didn't finish. In IRC3 we were 7th. A superb result in very testing light winds. <more here>.

Racing Rules of Sailing 2009-2012 A new edition of the Racing Rules came into effect on January 1st. You can download them from the ISAF web site here.

CS Sailing Feb 2009 is available on the Newsletters page.

2009 race programme Please see the programme for details. We have drawn up a full programme this year but as ever it is up to you, the members as to which we do.