Draycote Academy Sailors Lead The Way
by Steve Irish It was another successful year for the Draycote Academy with around 65 youth and junior sailors from the club and further afield joining us for our top level coaching. Our biggest take up was for the Toppers and ILCAs with more than 20 sailors signing up for each of these groups, alongside […]
Last Saturday Club of 2025
The final Youth and Juniors session of 2025
Southport Race 2025
A report of our Youth & Junior sailors taking on the Southport 24hr race
Y&J Autumn News
Although recent temperatures might lead you to think otherwise, summer is officially done, and we are heading into a busy autumn season. The summer is when a lot of the big national and international championships take place and, as usual, many of our Draycote Youth & Junior sailors were in action. There were some great […]
Youth & Juniors
As the summer season draws to an end, we can celebrate huge success at all levels by many of our Youth & Junior sailors competing in National, European and World Championships. As well as competing on home turf, often in Weymouth, Draycote sailors from our fleet headed to Greece, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Ireland and […]
Y&J Summer Events
We hope everyone has settled in the the sailing season and managing to get some time on the water. We had a fantastic start to the year with the Friday evening racing and BBQ being very popular on and off the water. Saturdays have seen very encouraging numbers getting out enjoying the sailing and trying […]
Youth & Junior’s Spring News
Would you believe it, spring is officially here! The days are getting longer and soon the clocks will go forward, signalling the start of our 2022 season of activities. Of course, many of our young sailors have been out on the water throughout the winter. The Draycote Academy led by head coach Steve Irish ran […]
Y&J Committee
We are delighted to announce that details to form a Y&J Committee have been finalised, and we are very keen to hold the election for the inaugural commodore and committee in the next few days. The aim of the commodore/committee is fundamentally about promoting youth and junior sailing at Draycote. You’ll have a huge say in developing […]
Y&J News
Hello everyone! After an enforced winter break of 3 months, we can finally get back out on the water. At last, you can try out all that great new sailing kit you got for Christmas! Sailing starts again this week and there is plenty of club racing over the Easter weekend. In the early stages […]
Youth & Juniors Lockdown Antics!
Some of our Youth & Junior’s have been very creative during this lockdown time and made this fab video… Many thanks to Paula Irish & family for organising.