UK Dinghy Racing
Newsletter No 15
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Please note new URL www.ukdinghyracing.com

If you are still using the old URL, or viewing any pages with dingyrac.force9.co.uk in the title bar then you should now be directed to the new site.

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The aim of the site is to entertain like minded people who have a passion for dinghy racing or sailing. I have tried to keep the site as specific as possible, ie UK not worldwide although the info and chat will be of interest to many. The listings of Sailing Clubs and Class Associations are purely British so there are no huge lists of useless links to try and find one useful one.

On the question of links I have spent many hours searching for the UK sites but am sure I have missed some, so if you find any relevant ones please send them to me.

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If you know somebody that would like this newsletter why not forward a copy onto them with a brief message, and they can then visit www.ukdinghyracing.com to subscribe.

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In this Issue
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1.Domain Names
2.18 foot Skiff Worlds
3.Olympic News
4.Site Additions
5.Exclusive Offers

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1. Domain Names
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Has your club or association got a "proper" domain name yet?

If the answer is no then you are missing out. The search engines and directories look more favourably on real names rather than just www.somebody.yourisp.co.uk and to make it all easier I have added a domain look up and register box in the store www.ukdinghyracing.com/store/store.htm for just £10 you can get a domain name that represents your site for 2 years, you can either transfer it to your host or have it redirect to the current site.

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2. 18 ft Skiff Worlds
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Well Tim Robinson and crew failed to defend last years world championship and finished 5th in Sydney.

I suppose travelling to the home of 18s was always going to be a hard job, and Tims thoughts may well be aimed at returning to Sydney later this year as an Olympic hopeful.

The title went to John Winning, an Australian who after 26 years of competing in the class achieved his ambition of a world 18ft title.

For the full results and pictures see uk18footer.org/Sydney2000/default.html

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3. Olympic News
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Following the Europe Worlds in Brazil we now know the first British Olympic representative for Sydney 2000, and it will not surprise many to learn that Shirley Robertson will again represent Great Britain at the games.

Shirley has a long history of success in the Europe fleet and goes with a strong chance of medal glory.

Worlds results www.yachtbahia.com.br/dez99/index.html

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4. Site Additions
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For those who do not visit UK Dinghy Racing very often I update the site every day, sometimes this is just the addition of new adverts to the Free Ads pages, sometimes new clubs or articles and sometimes whole new sections and pages. Recent additions include:

New products in the store www.ukdinghyracing.com/store/store.htm

List of World and International Events
www.ukdinghyracing.com/intweek.htm

A growing list of Open Events
www.ukdinghyracing.com/events.htm

Several Updates to the Olympic pages
www.ukdinghyracing.com/olympic/index.htm

Over 10 new club sites added
www.ukdinghyracing.com/clubs2.htm

Please try and help, if you have information which is of use to others eg links or event details then please send me an email to [email protected]

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5. Exclusive Offers
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Just a final reminder that the offer of a Polar Fleece from MaxMarine Sailing Clothing will expire at the end of January, so please visit their site if you wish to purchase one of these garments at a saving of over £20 from the regular retail price.

www.maxmarine.co.uk/dinghyracing.htm

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Thats all for now, so please visit the Forums
www.ukdinghyracing.com/cgi-bin/ultimate.cgi use the Auction
www.ukdinghyracing.com/auct.htm

and send in your Free Ads, traffic to the site this month is already over 20% up on December, there are lots of buyers out there.