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Just when you thought it was too cold to get out of bed, the SailJuice Global Warm-Up arrived to give dinghy sailors an extra boost to defy the Great British Weather and get out on the water. This brand new event brought together four of the biggest winter handicap racing events into a unified series, to find out just who was tough enough to race their way through Britain’s toughest winter in 30 years.

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Featured Articles

  Multi-skilled Turner wins Series from both ends of his Merlin....
Olly Turner has won the SailJuice Global Warm-Up, the four-event winter travellers' series which concluded at the weekend with the Hoo Freezer. Turner's victory is particularly special because he sailed as crew in three events and as helm in the other, proving himself a versatile sailor at both ends of the Merlin Rocket that he competed in. Turner, crewing for Richard Whitworth at the Hoo Freezer in Kent this past weekend, finished 9th in Saturday's practice race, which was won by the International Canoe sailed by Simon Allen. At the time Turner can't have realised the significance of completing the practice race, but with winds gusting up to Force 7 across the Medway estuary on Sunday morning, Saturday's warm-up took on a new level of importance.
  Showdown at the Hoo Freezer....
Graham Camm & Zoe Ballantyne, winners of the 2009 Hoo FreezerSome of the UK's top dinghy sailors are steeling themselves for a windy conclusion to the SailJuice Global Warm-Up Series at this weekend's Hoo Freezer in Kent. Hosted by the Hoo Ness Yacht Club with the assistance of nearby Wilsonian Sailing Club, this will be the 39th edition of this historic event. It's looking to be a windy one....
  SailJuice Global Warm-Up: Biggs & Hollis take Tiger victory at Rutland
Tiger TrophyMatt Biggs and Ben Hollis sailed their Merlin Rocket to victory in the John Merricks Tiger Trophy at Rutland Water last weekend. Biggs and Hollis have now scored consecutive wins in the SailJuice Global Warm-Up, after winning the Doublehanded division of the Steve Nicholson Memorial Trophy the previous weekend.
  SailJuice Global Warm-Up: Sailors revving up for Rutland and the Tiger Trophy....
More than 200 sailors are revving up for Round 3 of the SailJuice Global Warm-Up Series this weekend at Rutland Water. The John Merricks Tiger Trophy attracts the best dinghy racers from around the UK for two days of frenetic racing in the middle of the country.....
  SailJuice Global Warm-Up: 148 boats for the Steve Nicholson Trophy
RS100 Steve Nicholson TrophyWhere Peter Barton had capsized his way around the Bloody Mary three weeks earlier, the more moderate conditions suited his T-foiled Cherub to a T, with Barton and crew David Ellis winning both races of the Asymmetric fleet. After two events, victory at the Bloody Mary plus their 3rd at the Steve Nicholson keeps Andy Smith & Tim Needham's 505 in pole position, but just a point ahead of Barton's Cherub...
  SailJuice Global Warm-Up: Dinghy Racers line up for another cold and windy battle at Northampton...
After a sub-zero Bloody Mary earlier this month, dinghy racers are getting ready for another cold battle this Saturday at the second event in the SailJuice Global Warm-Up, the Steve Nicholson Memorial Trophy at Northampton Sailing Club....
  Bloodied and Battered at the Bloody Mary
"Looking at the heinous forecast, under normal circumstances there would have been no way that I would have bothered to get out of bed that Saturday morning. With sub-zero temperatures, and a wind chill from a strong northerly breeze threatening to make a freezing day feel Arctic, the prospect of competing in the Bloody Mary was not my idea of fun...." Andy Rice reports from a shattering experience competing in a Devoti D-1 at the Bloody Mary....
  SailJuice Global Warm-Up: 505 leads the series after sub-zero Bloody Mary
Jim Downer and Jon Price in the RS400With sub-zero temperatures, bone-chilling winds gusting over 25 knots, just 61 entrants and 29 finishers, this year's Bloody Mary must go down as one of the toughest in its 37 year history. This classic pursuit race throws up many different kinds of winners, and this year it was the turn of a 505, immaculately sailed by Staunton Harold's Andy Smith and Tim Needham, to lift the coveted trophy.
  SailJuice Global Warm-Up: What's it all about?
Foiling Moth at the Bloody MaryThe basic facts on this brand new series:
The Big 4 Events
The Prizes
The Madness of racing in the bleak midwinter....
  ENTRY FORM for the SailJuice Global Warm-Up
Sign Up SailJuice Global Warm-UpEntry Form for the SailJuice Global Warm-Up 2010. Entry is free to this four-event winter handicap tour of the UK. Loads of prizes up for grabs. Four events are: Bloody Mary, Steve Nicholson Trophy, Tiger Trophy and Hoo Freezer.....
 
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