Class Association
We wish you a Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all Impala sailors the world over – and here’s to a great sailing season in 2013!
Nationals
2013 Nationals will be in Weymouth
We can confirm that the 2013 Impala Nationals will be in Weymouth, from Friday 16th August to Sunday 18th. The format is likely to be a longer coastal race on Friday starting at noon, followed by two days of inshore racing. Royal Dorset YC have negotiated us a discounted rate Read more…
Race Reports
That was the Winter Series 2012!
Despite the best efforts of a pessimistic forecast – and ABP, who helpfully removed all the racing marks in the Solent last week – the Impalas racing in IRC 4 of the Garmin Hamble Winter Series squeezed in a short race in a dying breeze. Trudi decided to head home Read more…
Race Reports
Penultimate race – Hamble Winter Series 2012
After last week’s lack of wind led to most of the fleet reading the sunday papers under an AP, the penultimate race of the 2012 Garmin Hamble Winter Series was a very different affair. The four Impalas in IRC 4 raced in a brief weather window between two 40 knot Read more…
Race Reports
Fluky, fantastic racing
Springtime conditions came to the Hamble winter series yesterday, in a patchy, shifty, frustrating breeze. One race was sailed, ending with a long beat against the tide in a failing breeze to finish at Coronation. Trudi was first Impala home, followed by Polly, then Imptish. It was a tricky race, Read more…
South Coast
Putting the ‘Winter’ in the Winter Series
After Saturday’s gales and near-zero air temperatures, the four Impalas racing in IRC 4 in the Garmin Hamble Winter Series were relieved to find a more sedate 11-17 knots from the NW in the Solent yesterday – but it was still cold! Polly and Imptish plumbed new depths with poor Read more…
Class Association
Mapping the Impala fleet
We’ve developed this map to show the location of all of the Impalas the world over. It’s still definitely at the development stage, and won’t currently recognise Liverpool or Brixham, but we’re getting there. It’s linked to the Boats section – each page has a location added to the Read more…
South Coast
Hamble Winter Series week 3
With Polly’s owners on duty elsewhere it was left Imptish, Trudi and Magic to defend the classes honour on the third day of the Garmin Hamble Winter Series. A fluctuating north easterly breeze of between 12 and 18 kn led to some tight racing within the seven strong iRC4 class. Read more…
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The AP’s revenge
Racing was abandoned on Sunday as the breeze struggled to get above 3 knots in the Hamble Winter Series. As soon as the wind comes back though, we should have some great racing, with four Impalas racing the whole series and a whole weekend of one design racing over the Read more…
East Coast
Summer on the Medway
David Appleton writes via Facebook: ‘Medway Impalas – Goodbye Mr Chips, Implacable and Shoestring are out most weekends and have made the most of the 2012 Summer (If that’s what you can call it!) We’ve put together this video of photos from the year…