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Pim van Vugt Nederlands kampioen Contender 2025!!
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2025 Hartley Boats British Contender National Championship at Shoreham Sailing Club
It has been a good year for sailing Contenders. Every event seems to bring sun, wind and waves, new boats and new ways to set up rigs are being explored with sailors who bring new thinking into the class, the Worlds at Garda providing the peak of fleet racing in beautiful conditions, new sailors joining in with opens and class training.
What more could we squeeze out in 2025. The National Championship being held at one of the classes favourite venues with a superb forecast and laid on entertainments? Appears too good to be true.
Shoreham is perfect for Contenders, easy launching, spot of tide, big sea, and the club go all out to accommodate the sailors. This then is the backdrop for an anticipated event.
The competition was wide open as Current UK champ and 2024 World champ Graeme Wilcox was stuck at work on some gin palace in the Med. A few of the other usual suspects also ran out of leave since their extended tour of Northern Italy. Paul Verhallen the Dutch star had made the journey to show us how to do it and was very much one of the favourites.
Read more: 2025 Hartley Boats British Contender National Championship at Shoreham Sailing Club