News from Wales, where it seems the 3 Neyland Impalas have been beating up the competition… ‘Happy New Year, thought I would keep you informed of what has been happening in West Wales during the 2013 Autumn/ Winter. Please find below the final results from our local winter series which Read more…
Happy 35th Year to the Impala class! This looks set to be a bumper year, with fleets growing and some exciting, close racing guaranteed. The draft South Coast calendar is online. 3 Impalas are entered for Cowes Week this year – come and join them – it’s a week after Read more…
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A cold day with 10 knots of breeze finished off the 2013 Garmin Hamble Winter Series. Trudi sailed a blinding race to win on handicap, putting her 3rd overall. Imptish finished 6th and Two Frank 7th, putting them 7th and 4th overall respectively. Curved Air, who only sailed one weekend, Read more…
2014 is the 35th Anniversary of the Impala Class. We are in the strongest position we have been for many years as interest in the Class grows. As a Class we need to move and grow to ensure the Impala keeps its place in one-design racing, shrugging off more recent Read more…
Photos: Thanks to Paul Wyeth/pwpictures.com In the words of Two Frank‘s Olly Love it was a “Six person day” in the Garmin Hamble Winter Series if you were sailing an Impala. Shifty necessitating frequent tacks, gusty with a couple of tight kite reaches even though the max windspeed was 16knots. Read more…
Day five of the Garmin Hamble Winter Series and after several weeks of no action, we finally we had the perfect combination, sun, a decent breeze, and 4 Impalas on startline in the 10 strong IRC Class. All boats found the unpredictably shift North Westerly 18 knots made tactical and Read more…
The weather gods didn’t cooperate this weekend – both days of the Doyle Sails Hamble One Design Championships, which was to form the Impala Solent championships, were cancelled. Here’s hoping all your boats safely sat out last night’s storm…
Imptish, Two Frank and Trudi raced on Sunday on day three of the Garmin Hamble Winter series. All week the forecast had not looked encouraging, and the weather didn’t improve on race day with racing run in a gusty and shifty 15 to 25 kn with occasional torrential rain making Read more…
It was a light-winded few days on the south coast this weekend. On Saturday, Magic, Two Frank and Polly raced in the last JOG race of the year – the Eastern Approaches race, which turned into a light wind drift down to the forts and a gentle beat back in Read more…