Congratulations to all our prize winners!

Published 01:00 on 29 Oct 2021

Hearty congratulations to all members who were recognised at our annual Prizegiving on Saturday afternoon and thank you to everyone who raced and enabled us to run such a successful season of racing!

The pictures from the event (thank you Don Manson) say it all and are a great record of the lovely trophies that we have. Thank you Clare Chandler and team - our very own 'Trophy Wives' - for all the cleaning and preparation and well done to the very worthy winners!

We were particularly proud this year to award the inaugural Will Acres Trophy in memory of the very lovely Will, so sadly taken from us far too early. Will started sailing and racing at ESC in his bespoke Oppie and went on to represent our Club at many national and international events in his Oppie, Feva and 29er. He went on to be Joint Junior Captain and then cheered us all up when he worked with the team behind the bar. We miss Will and are delighted to honour his memory with a stunning trophy (made by Hugh and Helen Watson) that we will award every year to our Junior Challenger Series Winner - well done to Ollie Williams for winning!

Photos are at https://emsworthsailingclub.smugmug.com/Sailing/2021/Prize-giving-2021

Craig Summers

Photo: Inaugural Will Acres Trophy presented to Ollie Williams by Erika Biddlecombe