UK Opportunities 

Events available within the UK to race officials are listed here.

Judging Opportunities

The Class Judge Scheme provides judges for Cadet, Mirror, Optimist, Topper, RS200, 420 and 29er classes. Racing standards are high and many of the regattas are considered "major events" for NJ qualification. All classes need additional judges for their National Championships. Most of the classes welcome an additional judge for weekend regattas.

Interested? Want to find out more?

Talk to the Class Judge Administrator, William Jeffcoate Email: william.jeffcoate@tiscali.co.uk Tel: +44 1623 882 909  Mob: +44 7900 551 823  

 

Race Officer (ARO) Opportunities in the UK

It is useful for race officials to gain experience at a range of venues and to work with others who manage their racing in different ways.  This gives an opportunity to understand the challenge of running races under a variety of different conditions and some of the ‘tricks of the trade’.  It also gives inland sailors the chance to run races on the sea and vice versa. 

In order to help race officials get this range of experience, through the Race Management Committee, clubs have been identified which are willing to offer opportunities to visiting race officers.  This is usually as Assistant Race Officer (although the duties at the event are at the discretion of the event Race Officer) with one position offered per event.  No expenses are paid and it is entirely up to the person seeking experience to determine whether the event meets their needs.  Those aspiring to NRO status will be given preference for those major championships listed. The policy for allocation of events to individuals is as follows:

Any RRO or Club Race Officer Plus can take a maximum of three events each year after which all additional assignments are only provisional.  Those additional events can then be confirmed one month before the event.  Until that time, preference will be granted to any other race officers with a RRO or Club Race Officer Plus wishing to attend that event and who has not been assigned to the maximum of three. 

Any IRO or NRO, with the consent of the organising authority concerned, can take one or more of the events on a provisional basis until one month before it is due to happen when it will be confirmed.  Until that time preference will be granted to race officers with a RRO or Club Race Officer Plus qualification.

Download the full list of events on offer, together with the clubs and their contacts, from the link on the right side of this page.  To apply for an event please contact Roger Palmer on 02392484896 or by email .  All applicants must be qualified to at least CRO+.  A summary of what's on offer is detailed here:

ARO opportunities 2011

Date	Class(es)	Club	Visiting RO
Each Sunday: 27 March - 17 April	Keelboats	Royal Lymington YC
Each Wednesday Evening: 13 April - 11 September	Assorted Dinghies	Royal Plymouth YC
8 October - 17 February 2012	Assorted Dinghies	Royal Plymouth YC
2/3 April	Laser 4.7	Queen Mary SC
9/10 April	Musto Skiffs & B14s	Stokes Bay SC
9/10 April	RS 100/800	Queen Mary SC
16 April	Laser	Queen Mary SC
23/24 April	Topper	Queen Mary SC
29 April - 3 May	Optimist	Pwllheli SC
30 April - 1 May	Fireball & Flying Fifteens	Hayling Island SC	Dermod O'Malley
30 April - 2 May	Etchells	Royal Yacht Squadron
30 April - 2 May	IRC & Multihull	Royal Dee YC
1 May	Merlin Rockets	Rutland SC
7/8 May	Assorted Junior Classes	Rutland SC
14-15 May	Olympic Classes	Hayling Island SC	Nigel Denchfield
16-18 May	International Dragons	Royal Yacht Squadron
19-22 May	6 Metre	Royal Cornwall YC
28/29 May	Toppers	Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Acadamy
4/5 June	Moths	Hayling Island SC	Hugh Sutherland
4/5 June	Blaze & Finns	Warsash SC	John Fothergill
9 June	Laser	Notts County SC
11/12 June	Finns	Royal Cornwall YC
18/19 June	Laser	Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Acadamy
18/19 June	Junior Class Dinghies	Royal Plymouth YC
18/19 June	Merlin Rocket	Hayling Island SC	John Fothergill
24-29 June	IRC	Royal Cornwall YC
25/26 June	RS Classes	Hayling Island YC	Dermod O'Malley
25/26 June	IRC	Holyhead SC
10-15 July	Swan (Europeans)	Royal Yacht Squadron
19-22 July	OK (Nationals)	Largs SC
30 July  - 5 August	Optimist (Nationals)	Pwllheli SC
6/7 August	International 14s	Hayling Island SC
7-13 August	IRC & Multihulls (Falmouth Week)	Royal Cornwall YC
12-14 August	Skud & 2.4s	Rutland SC
15-26 August	RS 600 & 400	Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy
27/28 August	IRC	Largs SC
27 August - 2 September	Laser (Nationals)	Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy	Nigel Denchfield
3-16 Sept	International 14s (Worlds)	Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy
8-10 September	IRC (Little Britain)	Royal Yacht Squadron
10 September	Laser	Stokes Bay SC
10/11 September	Solo	Rutland SC
10/11 September	Topper	Pwllheli SC
17/18 September	420s	Rutland SC
17/18 September	RS 100, 200, 800	Stokes Bay SC	Simon Thompson
17-20 September	RS K6 (Nationals)	Royal Cornwall YC	Hugh Sutherland
24 September	RS 200	Queen Mary SC
24/25 September	Laser, Topper, Oppies	Largs SC	Ian Young
1/2 October	Larks	Royal Plymouth YC	Hugh Sutherland
8/9 October	RS 700 & K6	Queen Mary SC
8/9 October	Topper	Poole YC
8/9 October	Scorpion	Notts County SC
8/9 October	RS 700 & K6	Queen Mary SC	Toffer Blachford
15/16 October	Laser 2000, 4000, 5000, Vago & Vortex	Rutland SC
22/23 October	Cats	Grafham Water SC
22/23 October	RS 100, 800 & Vareo	Rutland SC
29/30 October	D-One	Queen Mary SC
5/6 November	49er & international 14s	Grafham Water SC
12/13 November	RS Feva	Queen Mary SC

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