Committee
There is a large team behind this event – comprising experience in all areas of team racing (sailors, PROs, Scheduling and course management.) They all share a deep passion for sailing in it’s many forms – here are more details about the individuals and their backgrounds.
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Event Director:
David Wilkins
- RYA National Race Officer and PRO and RO at many National and International events including race officer at 2012 London Olympics
- Member of RYA Racing Committee in 2002-2007 and 2011 to present
- Olympic Silver Medallist and winner of many international and national events in Flying Dutchman, Tempest, Finn, Laser and other classes
- Multiple Winner of BUSA and British 2-Boat team racing championships
- Was instrumental in Rutland Sailing Club becoming a National Sailing Academy and chairman of team that raised £1.2m towards development of Rutland Sailing Club
- Past commodore, vice-commodore and rear commodore of Rutland Sailing club. Currently Rear Commodore - Sailing
Sponsorship:
Sarah Kemp
- Former Marketing Director at Nokia
- Passionate about joining up all marketing and communications efforts to make sure the message gets through in a cost effective manner
- Current Qualified RYA class coach and Sailing Instructor and Coach
- Competitor at Ladies Team Racing Nationals – last 4 years
- Winner of BUSA 1986 (British Universities Team Racing Championship)
- Commodore Southampton University Sailing Club 1989.
Equalisation and Media:
Richard Stenhouse
- GBR representative in the Finn at 1996 Olympics in Atlanta
- Multiple Musto Performance Skiff World Champion, European and National Champion
- Laser National Champion represented GBR at international level, 2nd ISAF World Ranking
- Production of a professional DVD ‘K16 Taking control’ (instructional DVD for Musto Performance Skiffs)
- Current Qualified RYA class coach
Kit Stenhouse
- Previous Musto Performance Skiff and UK Inland Champion
- Co-producer of DVD ‘K16 Taking control’
- Has represented Rutland SC at the Wilson Trophy, Ladies Nationals and UKTRA
- Current Qualified RYA class coach
Course manager
Alan Guy:
- 1995 - 2001: Spinnaker Club representative @ the first Worlds in 1995 in West Kirkby. Also supported Team GBR @ Miami, Dun Laoghaire & Brno
- 2003: Course Manager in Auckland, New Zealand
- 2005: Team GBR Manager Rhode Island, USA
- 2007: Team GBR Manager Gandia, Spain
- 2005-2007: RYA Team Racing Group Chairman
- 2001 – 2011: BUSA Nationals course manager
- 2003 – 2011: RYA Eric Twiname Youth & Junior Team Racing Championships course manager
- 2009 – present: UKTRA committee member and course manager for multiple UKTRA Championships (GBR Nationals)
Edward Langford
- RYA rescue boat driver
- Worked at 2012 London Olympics as a ‘Super Sub’ with overall on water control for safety/troubleshooting as well as mark laying
- Ambulance technician and medical student specialising in prehospital and emergency medicine
Educational Links:
Nick Neve
- Schoolmaster in charge of sailing at Oakham School.
- Currently the top team racing school in UK (top school at 2013 RYA ET Youth Championships)
- British Schools Team Racing Association National Event Director
- Dinghy coach and passionate team racing coach
Richard Langford OBE
- Chairman and Trustee of the newly formed RYA Foundation - "A world where boating is accessible to everyone, regardless of circumstance", - the charitable arm of the Royal Yachting Association
- He has served as an International Judge, appointed by ISAF for eight years and was a selector for the British Sailing Team for four Olympics.
Consultants to the Organising Committee:
Steve Tylecote
- Family member Rutland Sailing Club
- Captain of winning team 1995 IYRU Team Racing Worlds
- Medals at 5 other ISAF Team Racing Worlds and ISAF World Sailing Games
- Winner of many team racing events and various Nationals and Endeavour Trophy (UK Champion of Champions event)
- Author of Team Racing for Sailboats
- RYA Coach
- Voluntary work on sailing activation, funding, team racing and junior coaching, team building
- Elite coach on medal race tactics to many, including Sir Ben Ainslie.
- Member RYA Team Racing Group
Dr Adrian Stoggall
Dr Geoff Jackson
- 20 years’ experience of team race event management
- International and national events as Chief Race Officer and Event Manager including
- Responsible for introducing the current widely used method of event management and the digital N course
- Developed widely used race scheduling techniques for conventional and random pairs events
- Committed to the ethos of a Race Committee's responsibility to run events that are uniformly fair to all participants
- Founder and first chairman of UK Team Racing Association
- Founder member of RYA Team Racing Group