Download the 2013 Firefly Open calendar

The National Firefly Association provides Firefly owners with a full calendar of events each year. There are two main championships, the National Championships (Torbay in July/August 2013) and the South Western Championships (held in Restronguet this year in late May), In addition there are 2 main series: The Vines Trophy and the M25 Series, both designed to encourage attendance at open meetings all over the country and to give you the opportunity to win lots of trophies (and accolades, of course).

Notice of Race for 2012 Vines and M25 series trophies

GJW Direct Vines Trophy series

The 2013 Vines Series is kindly sponsored by GJW Direct insurance (see link on the homepage). The first placed boat/helm in the series will win a suit of sails!

The events are:

Hamble Warming Pan March 16/17
Restronguet South Western Champinships , May 25-27
Itchenor Open June 29/30
West Oxfordshire open 11/12 May
Inland Championships, Rutland 9-10th November

As presented by the Vines Family in 1965. Positions in the series may be awarded to the helm (who may sail with different crews) or boat (2 sailors who sail together for all qualifying events). The overall results of each event will score as follows: 1 point = 1^st, 2 point 2^nd etc There will be no discards to the series (i.e. all events count) though individual events may discard races to score the event. An event not sailed by a competitor will score the average vines events entries plus 2. If all races in an event are cancelled or abandoned an additional event MAY be nominated, although this will not apply to the final event in the series (which is also the Inland championship)

M25 Series

A Helm or Boat (as defined above) can enter its best 8 race results from all events with 5 or more entrants. The series will be awarded to the boat with the most points, which are scoring as follows: a win scores no of entrants for that event, second scores no of entrants -1, third scores entrants -2 etc. A boat or helm does not have to complete a full event for the race result to be counted. In the event of fewer than 3 boats qualifying the number of races may be reduced. Events excluded are National Championships, South Western Championships and all Vines trophy events.

For an event to qualify and therefore its races for competitors the event organiser or nominated individual must email or send the overall results with individual race breakdown to the fixtures secretary. Failing to do so will exclude an event to qualify for the m25 series

If your club would be interested in holding an event in the future, be it a Championship, Open Meeting or Team Racing event then we would like to hear from you. Please contact our Fixtures Secretary.

We recommend that you contact the Fixtures Secretary or the club prior to travelling to these events. Check the discussion forums if you want to share a lift!

We look forward to seeing you in 2012!

Date From/To	Venue	Cat	Region	Contact
16 Mar 13 17 Mar 13	Hamble River SC Hamble Warming Pan		South	Sailing Secretary 023 8045 2070
29 Mar 13 30 Mar 13	Waldringfield SC Waldringfield Easter Egg		South East	Mike Oldroyd
20 Apr 13 21 Apr 13	Tamesis SC Elizabeth Cup	M25	South East	Sue Harris
27 Apr 13 28 Apr 13	Rickmansworth	M25	South East	Sailing Secretary
4 May 13 6 May 13	Llangorse Sailing Club Wilson Trophy	M25	Wales	Guy Davison
11 May 13 12 May 13	West Oxfordshire SC Firefly Open	M25	South West	Tony Thresher
18 May 13 19 May 13	South Staffs SC Firefly Open	M25	West Midlands	Keith Macaulay kmacaulay@onetel.com
25 May 13 27 May 13	Restronguet SC South Western Championships	The Vines Trophy	South West	Dave Sincock via discussion forum
22 Jun 13 23 Jun 13	Royal Harwich YC Open Meeting	The Vines Trophy	East	Amy Bowden amykmstamp@hotmail.c
22 Jun 13 22 Jun 13	Budworth SC Budworth Open		North West	Steve Hayward mike.j.bailey@ntlwor
29 Jun 13 30 Jun 13	Itchenor Sailing Club Itchenor Firefly weekend	M25	South
13 Jul 13 14 Jul 13	Royal Lymington YC Open Meeting	M25	South	Rory Paton
7 Sep 13 8 Sep 13	Upper Thames SC Bourne End Week	M25	South East	Jonny Bickford
8 Sep 13 8 Sep 13	Chipstead SC Walter Smith Trophy	M25	South East	Neil Banks
28 Sep 13 29 Sep 13	West Kirby SC Firefly Open	The Vines Trophy	North West
26 Oct 13 27 Oct 13	Spinnaker Club Spinnaker Open and Twisted Tube	M25	South	Tom Clay
9 Nov 13 10 Nov 13	Rutland Sailing Club Inland Championships		--	Sailing Secretary