The Kirkcarrion Cup 2025

Published 21:45 on 9 Sep 2025

The Kirkcarrion Cup, this year scheduled for Sunday 21 September, is our annual competition for double handed boats. Racing double handers successfully requires effective communication and teamwork, alongside good humour and preferably balance!

It's a challenge but rewarding with it (and also much more sociable, especially if the wind disappears!)

If you don't have a double handed boat of your own, that's no problem - we will have the club double handers available (see details below). It's also an excellent opportunity for those new to racing to learn alongside our more experienced members and we'll do our best to match up helms and crews to make that happen. Please respond to the poll on our club WhatsApp group so we can get an idea of who is interested and allocate boats as fairly as we can. You can also ask any questions in advance via the group or direct to Phil Wherry as Race Officer.

Weather permitting, we'll aim to run three races on a handicap basis, using our usual sailing instructions, which you can find on our start racing page, alongside details of what to expect if you're new to dinghy racing at Grassholme. We'll aim to start races on our usual schedule for Sunday racing - a morning race starting as soon after 11:15 as we can and two races in the afternoon back-to-back starting around 13:45. We're expecting that the club RS Fevas, Bahias, Picos and the Wanderer will be available. You can find out more about our club boats here.