Hyde Sails have had an fantastic period of performance in the Mirror since introducing new designs in 2021, we have continued to develop these sails each year to keep our product at the front of the fleet, our sails were used by the winners of the 2023 & 2025 World Championships and it is fantastic to see so many of the international fleet now using our sails around the world. This year we have released the new B5 designs, while the same as the B4 in shape, numerous adjustments have been made to the construction to produce our smoothest Mirror sails to date, as used by Ben McGrane to win the 2025 UK National Championships.
Despite the biblical forecast as Storm Amy rolled inexorably across the country on Saturday, 26 Mirrors weren't deterred from entering their Inland Championship on 4th & 5th October at Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club.
This was a combined event with the Firefly class, who by all accounts descended upon the bar once the race team wisely cancelled racing on the Saturday. Four races were scheduled for the following day.
Sunday dawned still breezy but, with big dark isolated clouds rolling across the lake, occasionally the wind would drop to almost flat calm before the next squall line came in at 25kts. This combined with the restricted water (a result of the tide being out at Chew since August) forced the two fleets onto the same triangle sausage course and made consistency hard to find for all competitors. Fireflys being slightly bigger and slightly faster than mirrors can make very effective wind blockers!
No report and only one photo so far. Mirrors raced in a 21 strong "slow" PY division (all the way up to a Blaze, PY=1030) which Phil & Lucy Smith won on countback from a (Laser) 2000. I have extracted the Mirror results from the full results table, which is why race winners and other placings are missing for some races.
Have you seen any of the above Trophies ? The following list of National Inland Championship Trophies are missing (i.e. they were not awarded in 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024 and efforts to track them down have failed so far).
Notice of Race now posted, entry's open via Web Collect using the link below.
Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club: Mirror & Firefly Inland Championships 2025
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