Summer Series

The Summer Series is a five event competition for Mens and Womens crews
scheduled over the summer months. Crews compete in three "round robin" races

Crews please note: the Summer Series pointscore system is under review and will be ratified at the UKSRL Management meeting in March 2012 (see 2012 event dates below)

The winning Men and Women crews are those with the highest scoring overall pointscore at the end of the 5 Round Series (similar to football league)

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Round 5 Bournemouth - 24th September 2011

The final event of the Summer Series at Bournemouth is turning into one of the best competitons of the summer. Despite the lack of waves the welcome the crews receive from the newly formed Bournemouth Surfboat Club is second to none. This year, prior to racing saw the launch of their refurbished or renovated Clymer surfboat. After 18 months of hard toil by volunteers from the club and under guidance of a very good carpenter the boat was ready to launch. The Mayor of Bournemouth Borough Council attended the launch ceremony and the Bournemouth crew was Swept by Nick Beringer - UKSRL President. There are a few remaining finishing touches to be done to the surfboat, the boat looks good and will be competitive.

Nine Mens crews and seven womens crews attended Round 5 Summer Series at Bournemouth. Racing was intense due to the flat conditions with crews adding points to their final overall tally. The mens crew Porthtowan Blue Bali and the womens crew Porthtowan Black Blue held a clean sheet for the event and added the Summer Series Championship to their UK Open and European Titles.

Winner of the Novice Sweep 2011 was Khalil Isaac from Porthtowan. It is pleasing to see so many names in the listing having a go at the stern with "the big stick". By doing so they soon learn why the Sweep deserves respect and needs on occasions, claw feet.

Presentations took place at the Kiwi Hotel, Bournemouth attended by Mrs T McDonald , 1st Secretary, Australia House, London. One notable presentation was that of UKSRL Life Membership awarded to UKSRL President - Nick Beringer. Another presentation was made by UKSRL members to retiring UKSRL Secretary - Peter Gaisford.

For the second year the UKSRL presented a limited number of Surfboat Oscars awarded to the following :-

for Poor Eyesight - Mike Lord

for Tantrums - Stuart Alldritt and James Basher

for Poor Decisions - Nick Healey

for Dissent - Ellis Haggar

UKSRL Summer Series 2012
Date	Venue
Saturday 19th May	Poppit Sands, West Wales Rd 1	Event info
Saturday 23rd June	Portreath, Cornwall Rd 2	Event info
Saturday 14th July	Watergate Bay, Cornwall Rd 3	Event info
Saturday 15th September	Westward Ho, N DevonRd 4	Event info
Saturday 29th September	Bournemouth Rd 5	Event info