The 2025 season — a record Youth Week, and four races in spring
Drawn from the AB Class report by Hannah Martin in The Golden Dolphin 2026, Parkstone Yacht Club’s annual magazine. The full report is in that issue.
Spring produced four races
Four. In the whole series. What filled the gap was Friday Fun, which turned out to be the more memorable half of the term — old-school Pac-Man, full Quidditch matches, and the rescue of some baby ducks, all conducted in exchange for sweets.
Pirate Camp and the picnic race
Seventy young pirates took Cleaval Point for the weekend: an Olympic games, a slip-and-slide, a treasure hunt, a dog show, and AB’s Got Talent. Pizzas on the Friday, a barbecue on the Saturday, marshmallows over the campfire, and a sunrise yoga session for the parents.
The Brownsea picnic race ran on 6 July — seventeen boats making the crossing with the clouds closing in. It rained halfway. The sun came out exactly as everyone landed, in time for the sandcastle competition. The sail home was windy and wobbly and everybody got back.
The biggest Youth Week yet
The Summer Series drew 23 boats in CAP and 49 across the other fleets, and two days of coaching with Rockley at the club got the sailors ready for the one that matters.
Youth Week 2025 was the largest the fleet has run: 41 CAP boats and 72 ABs overall. Parents took on Blue fleet duty in numbers, having first had to understand the CAP round-robin start, which the report describes as comedy gold.
The season finished with autumn coaching and a parents’ beach party on 18 October.
Hannah Martin takes over as AB Class Captain.
For what the following summer produced, see the Youth Week 2026 results — 60 ABs across the four fleets, with the full finishing order for each.