News
We have some great events lined-up this year. Northerns champ's at Sunderland YC, Southerns at Brixham, Nationals at Strangford Lough, Tarbert, Burnham Week, Medway Regatta and more. Details on the events page.
We paid you to race! Last year ten NSA members each received a £50 cheque from the Association under the bursary scheme to encourage traveling to ‘away’ events. Full details in the 2011 Minutes in the Association Matters forum (this forum is available to current NSA Members only). This year we will pay you twice as much! At the 2012 AGM we agreed to double the bursary to £100 – a significant contribution to the expense of competing in ‘away’ events and a real incentive to rejoin your Association this year.
We have updated our Class Rules. For details see the Rule Changes threads on the “Any Sonata Topic” forum.
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As a member, this website is yours to contribute to and benefit from. Our fleets are spread all around the UK and Sonatas are to be found around the world, as our posts demonstrate. The site is the way to share your Sonata experience and make your views known and correspond directly with fellow Sonata sailors.
Also as a member, you are welcome to become an officer of the Association. There are several posts that are, or are soon to become, vacant. Our current committee is spread all over the UK and we communicate almost exclusively by email, thus the time commitment is undemanding. (there are no ‘committee meetings’). As with membership, your class needs committee members to steer the Association, maintain our privileged status and bring fresh ideas for our future development. Please contact any of our current committee members to discuss this.
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Key Dates 2013
| Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series, Tarbert | May 24–27 |
| Cowes – Round the Island | June 1 |
| Northern Champ's, Sunderland YC | June 8–9 |
| Medway YC Keelboat Regatta | July 11 |
| Southern Champ's, Brixham YC | July 27–28 |
| Cowes Week | Aug 3–10 |
| National Champ’s at Strangford Lough | August 22–25 |
| Burnham Week, Burnham on Crouch | Aug 24–Sep 4 |