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Cadet and Junior End-of-Seasons Race Series

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Saturday, 24 October 2026

Blackwater Sailing Club

Basin Road, Maldon, CM9 4SD

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REGISTRATION CLOSES 4th OCTOBER Cadet and Junior End-of-Seasons Race Series 24th - 26th October 2026 The briefing will be on the lower deck at the following times: Date High Water Briefing 24th October (Sat) 11:56 09:00 25th October (Sun) 11:39 09:00* *Note DST ends 26th October (Mon) 12:20 09:15 The End of Seasons is a series of races held over three days. We plan to run two or three races each day, depending on the weather. It is open to Cadets and Junior members: All entrants need to be at least 8 years old, and less than 25 years old on 31st December 2026. All those who wish to enter must be confident river sailors with their own boats (For BSC sailors this means you were in Tango or MG training groups at cadet week, or you raced in the Reid Scott). We anticipate that there will be the following classes: Optimists Topper / RS Tera RS Feva ILCA / Laser (all rigs) 420 / General handicap We hope to provide on the water coaching for less experienced sailors. We welcome visitors for this event but you must register in advance and there is a nominal charge; please indicate if you are a visitor on the form and you will be invoiced for the cost which you can pay by bank transfer. Please pre-register so we can plan the event. It will also be very useful to know if you are able to help out as a volunteer: as always we need adults to help this event run smoothly; we need people to help launch and recover boats, we need a bridge team, and we need crews for the safety boats.

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