26th August 2011 - Redwing National Championships - Looe.

A couple of weeks ago Looe Sailing Club hosted the Enterprise National Championships, this week is the turn of the Redwing National Championships.

The Redwing is a traditional one-design clinker-built14 ft.(4.27m) racing dinghy sailed by a crew of two.

Commissioned in the 1930's by Wilfred Neale, Commodore of the Looe Sailing Club, designer and builder Uffa Fox of Looe came up with was a fourteen foot long boat of clinker contruction.

The rig is a bermudan sloop, with one trapeze for the crew, but there is no spinnaker.

This sailing class is small in number.

The Competitors.

R134 - Ballerina.

2011 Redwing National Championships - East Looe - © Ian Foster / fozimage

R183 - Chough.

R194 - Vianne.

R195 - Sallyforth.

R205 - Spirit of Red Herring.

R214 - .

R220 - Scooby Doo.

R240 - Bearded Tit.

R241 - Shamrock III.

R242 - Clifford The Cunning Comorant.

R243 - Celtic Warior.

R245 - Shytalk.

R246 - Nightingale.

At the end of the days racing the Redwings return to the slipway.