Old Pangbournian Yacht Club

The Old Pangbournian Yacht Club was founded in January 2012 and is open to all OPs - the two main events are the Arrow Trophy (a regatta racing 40 identical foot yachts against alumni of some 30 public school) and an annual Summer Rally (could be anywhere along the UK coast and normally comprises of about 60 members).

Boat ownership is not a necessity as we have plenty of members who always need crew. We are an RYA Affiliated club and can offer discounted sailing courses both ashore and afloat.

We also enter a number of other races such as Round the Island Race, JOG, ARC and RORC)

The OP Yacht Club's chosen charity - named in honour of one of our OPs - is the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation

We have a range of exclusive club branded clothing and merchandise available to members too. These include baseball caps, ties, fleeces and t-shirt.

Contact List:

For any social or racing events, please contact Peter Kewish at events@opyc.org.uk.
For any membership enquiries, please contact Ian Williams at secretary@opyc.org.uk.
To contact the Treasurer, Julian Biggs, please email treasurer@opyc.org.uk.

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OPYC Autumn Newsletter 2018

OPYC Event Entry Form

Event Announcement

Peter Kewish is putting together this year’s OP entry into the Arrow Trophy Yacht Race. For those that don’t know about it, it’s a weekend of racing against alumni of some 28 public schools in the Solent in identical 40 foot yachts.

He said: "It is always great fun both on and off the water and a truly unforgettable experience. No sailing experience is needed as we have a core crew already. Subsidised places are available for the under 25s."

Should anyone fancy the challenge, please email him at events@opyc.org.uk. Crew numbers are limited to 12 so get your application in early.

More information is available on the OPYC Facebook page and www.arrowtrophy.org.uk/

Upcoming Events

2021

Arrow Trophy Regatta - 2-3 October

The 2021 Arrow event is scheduled for 2nd/3rd October 2021. There will be significant changes to the event this year – certainly if Covid restrictions remain of course, and anyway because Sunsail will have only 12 of their new Jenneau F41s available, having disposed of all the old F40s. We will be making up the shortfall by chartering in a number of Oceanis 37s from Fairview Sailing, based at Port Hamble (NOT Port Solent!). The consequent racing format is under discussion. Yachts will be allocated on the basis of racing results aggregated over the past four events, with one discard allowed. A match-racing element will be included as usual for the F41 fleet only.v